So I bought a smart tv finally, Sony XR Bravia. It has Google TV running on it as the system. I feel like I'm missing something for a proper configuration.

Before it I just turned on a TV and selected a channel. For Netflix I just watched it over Amazon FireTV stick. I kind of expected from the TV that it would give me suggestions what to eatch based on the apps I installed or that I could have one common watchlist and recommendation algorhytm over all the apps I have.

What seems to happen is that if I'm in the starting screen (Google TV), I get mostly recommendations to watch for things from Amazon Prime, nothing from Netflix. Some movies getting proposed only with options to buy/rent them even though I'm sure they are free in other apps.

Like... what's the point if I have to look through the watchlists/catalogues of 4+ different apps separately anyway? Or am I missing something?

Nothing better than buying something and see 4 yourself that all the positive reviews all over the place are bullshit, right?

Tons of positive reviews and YouTube analyses later and I bought this to replace a dead fire stick.

Found out this thing is super slow. If you use just the preloaded apps it's fine, but after I install Abt 10 streaming apps it becomes unusable.i mean it literally. it freezes, takes a couple minutes to boot and too many seconds to do anything, I couldn't watch anything on it after installing a couple apps.

Btw the Google home configuration at 1st boot didn't work with anyone's phone here, it just crashes or hangs on for a long time until it returns an error.

It took about 40 minutes to complete the apps setup, which is curious, since the only apps downloaded were Deezer and Plex.

Limiting background processes to 2 (dev options) helps a lot makes it usable again, but still the thing is slow.

Want more reasons to avoid it? Controller doesn't turn the TV on, doesn't come with batteries, it comes with no power adapter, **the power cord is way too short ** (fire tv= 1.5m / this= 30cm), etc.

Want my advice? This is the worst piece of crap I've seen that's got a Google and netflix certification on it. Don't buy it.

The Amazon fire stick leaves this shit eating dust anytime, it's just way much faster and works fine, despite me thinking FireOS and the Amazon AppStore to be inferior.

EDIT:

Amlogic S905Y4 powers this thing, I didn't know it as there's very little info out there. It's a quad core a35 CPU (slower than the a53, which is already slow),

I little monitoring wnd i found that when idling the 4 cores are constantly maxed out at 2GHz.

The CPU struggles to do its job.

I have a tcl google tv and I downloaded the Google tv app on my phone and the floating remote does not show in the app, both are connected with the same network

Hi all!

I’m looking into buying my first android box / stick.

I’m looking into: Fire Stick 4K Max

Xiaomi TV stick 4K

Realme TV stick 4k

Google Chromecast

Nokia Streaming Box 8000

What do you guys recommend? Also other suggestions are welcome!

I’m from Europe by the way 🙂

To those who got their hands early on the new Xiaomi 4k stick, could you please confirm if it supports automatic refresh rate switching in Plex?

I intend to upgrade from the old version (which does support AFR), and wanted to see if the 4k version supports it as well.

I have a TCL Google tv that comes with preset buttons for YouTube, Netflix, TCL Channel, and Amazon. Button Mapper doesn’t work on the preset buttons so the remote hasn’t been the most useful to me.

My most used apps are: HBO, Netflix, sling, Hulu, and Disney+. Any recommended remotes that would allow me to map to these apps? Also would like a fast forward button instead of having to push right on the D-pad an endless number of times since there is no way to scrub on the current remote.

I see a lot of people recommend the remote that comes with the Onn stick, but I haven’t seen anyone mention whether the preset buttons can be remapped or not?

I have a firestick and i dont feel good with the user experience, so i was thinking about switching to android tv, the thing is that i wanted to buy a new tv (possibly 4k), and my project was: buy any 4k tv and then buy a chromecast with google tv, but i was thinking about buying an android tv device and install the google tv launcher.

My worries are that i would spend too much money with the google tv option and the secondo option will not run smoothly as a google tv (interface and streaming).

Do you have any advice or tips to help me out.

Thanks for helping :)

While watching video (Netflix, YouTube and so on) via the Mi TV Stick 4k the volume is very low. I need to set my TV to 100% to hear it normally.

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I disconnected the Mi-remote from my TV and set the Mi volume tot max. Now I can set my TV to a volume of about 20-25%.

But when watching the same content directly on my TV I can get a fine sound with only 10% volume.

Is this 'normal'?

With Chromecast I could cast anything to it while the tv was turned off.
Chromecast would turn the TV on and start playing.

Is this possible with the Mi TV stick 4K?

I tried with Activity Launcher and they're not hidden, they're just not part of the system.

Is there any way to solve this?

Hi,

I am having problem with my TV getting audio delay when connecting with Bluetooth speakers. Is there a solution? like a software audio delay adjustment or soimething.

I have a MiTV stick and everytime I use it for an hour or so, the remote wouldn't be responsive. Sometimes even when I click just one time, it scrolls registers the click multiple times. Unpairing doesn't even work as when I unpair, it doesn't bring up the pairing screen after. It's been a hassle to restart the stick and/or bring up the phone app just to control the TV Stick. I also can't let my parents watch tv alone cause they wouldn't know what to do when the remote doesn't respond.

Is it possible two get different sources for Audio and Video? By sources, I mean apps or casting.

Basically, I would like to cast audio while having a YouTube video playing, or the other way around.
Is this something Android TV can do, or is there no way of getting around the "one media source" limit.

For now, I am using a hardware solution, with my TV's app playing YouTube, while I am casting Audio to my Shield TV, with my AV-Receiver mixing the two.
While this works, it's a bit annoying to get running every time.

Hello i am from Germany and i wanna Stream live TV from USA . I have an xiaomi Android TV Box s, i tried several apps but either they hang or the have a Bad UI . Do you know any good apps ? Thanks 🤝

Not sure if anyone have this issue? I have a mecool mk2 and that works fine but the km7 have power on issues. I even went into developer mode to disable sleep and disable screen saver but doesn’t fix the issue completely

Good day fellow redditors,

my father has a very old smart TV (probably so old it doesnt even support apps, or at least i havent found any, but its got a browser) and increasingly often it wont be able to decompress video codecs, either not being supported, or just cause the tvs cpu just cant handle it.

i was looking into some "easy" kind of fix, like an upgradable dongle that can read pen drive/external hdds (you know, to not have the same problem in like 5y) or a streaming-like service from his PC (i saw many online, but they look hard to actually set up) that arent at 300$ like most, at that price hed just get a lappy for 250$ and call it a day, but its actually a waste of money and gear, since he only needs to see media on his TV, and nothing else.

Thanks for your help