Kore won’t connect to kodi on amazon firestick

I just picked up an amazon firestick and loaded it with kodi. I have Kore on my note 5 configured for 2 separate laptops and love the way it works. However, I cannot get it to connect to kodi on the firestick. Can anyone offer any suggestions on why it’s not connecting, or if there might be something special that needs to be done for the firestick install as opposed to a windows install of kodi?

thanks-epi