Just created a kids profile for my daughter and the home screen is completely locked down showing just the apps you allow.

If you allow all apps and set no restrictions you'll have a simple app list with no ads and it's aaaall good.

I am looking for the best solution to replicate Spotify's behaviour for playing local music files from one device on another, i.e., I can control playback of music on my pc and play them via my android tv box (Mi Box 4K) (it's attached to my amp/speakers). Which app can do that except Plex?

I have tried Plex but it's casting feature is awful, constantly breaks off after playing 3-4 songs. Another problem is that pressing the skip buttons skips 2-3 songs in the playlist. Basically my experience hasn't been great. I have used the web browser app, Windows app, and MacOS app. ALl behaving similarly.

Hi Friendz,

I am a big fan of GGTV with CCU but I have Two pending questions;

1- Do you know how to manage our Watchlist Films on a Mac ( or mobile) expect from the access of the GG Search bar and the small picture on the right ?

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2- Is there a way to have the Google TV UI on our Mac ?

Thanks to all

Thanks to those who helped me sort out the listing for my TV News app on Android TV.

I am trying experiment with how easy it is for people to discover my app.

What happens when you search Google Play Store on your Android TV for: tv news

Our voice search for "world news apps"

For both I am seeing my simply named "TV News - World News" app as #4 result for both searches ... which is very good. I have the blue TV icon with a white screen and the words "TV NEWS" on the screen.

What position is the app is it for you???

Bonus: For "news" via Google Play Store: 44

I think one challenge I will have is that lots of general voice searches from a top Android TV conveniently pull you straight into YouTube content. I'm not complaining however, because the YouTube API helps power my app! I just curated a more global and diverse playlist of more serious news channels.

I have looked online but can’t seem to find the setting for enabling audio passthrough for all apps?

I’m using a Sonos Arc 5.1.2 setup and it works fine with Plex with passthrough enabled but other apps such as iPlayer play stereo only.

How do I enable it for everything?

TIA :)

Hey, I noticed Sonys new TVs with Google TV launcher are out. I also noticed while browsing through the launcher it is actually a different launcher comparing to the one on Chromecast with Google TV.

Has anyone uploaded this version of launcher with Google TV services apk (which I guess will also be neede)? I am trying to get this version as it seems to work all around the world without VPN.

Thanks guys. :)

I have a Sony Bravia X95G.

I have sideloaded the gdrive app on the tv.

I can access mydrive as well as folders shared with me.

I have 4k movies in the shared folders.

When i click play, it plays with the inbuilt video player and the video loses it's quality/resolution.

Is there a way to change the default player on the TV to Kodi/VLC?

The gdrive kodi addon is not an option as i cannot view the drives shared with me there.

Thanks in advance!

My mi box 3 remote suddenly stop so if I am buying new one so I am thinking to buy upgraded one like mi box 4k the question is will it work with my mi box 3?

Screen keeps defaulting to Home Screen with a black screen for about 10 seconds in between. Can’t use Netflix or any apps please help!

I have a Mecool KM2 (Android TV version 10) with optical SPDIF audio output connected to Logitech speakers with Dolby Digital/DTS decoder support. When the HDMI output is connected to my TV, 5.1 audio passthrough works fine, to HDMI as well as to SPDIF. When the HDMI output is connected to my beamer without audio (or not connected to anything for that matter), the SPDIF sound is only PCM stereo.

I configured the supported sound formats manually in the sound menu, but that does not help, it seems the SPDIF output only works in passthrough if the connected HDMI device supports it.

What am I doing wrong ?

I have a mecool mk6 with AndroidTV 10.
I hook a SSD → Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB → using an external HDD case USB 3.1 to the box. The box recognized the HDD and I can format it as an external device (I don't want to get all app etc. on this External HDD).

As soon as I want to try to add a directory or file I get the notification that the external HDD named "Android" is readonly !!!

If I hook it to a windows 10 machine I can write on the external HDD without any problem. When I put it back on the Mecool MK6 read only again.

Anyone knows how I will get this external SDD mounted to be writable?

I don't want to give full access to my whole Google account to my TV for security reasons. is there a way I could authorize it to only access my YouTube account?

I have a Sony Bravia with Android 9.

I'm not a fan of the new home screen ads, but on my Jetstream I can at least toggle over to the apps tab (or discover). It looks like my tivo is on an older launcher that only has the home screen, which sometimes has some very irrelevant content I can't dismiss. Is there a way to update the launcher?

Just setup a Tivo Stream 4k plugged into a ceiling mounted computer monitor. I'm currently using an Amazon echo 4th gen as the speaker, and found that I can't control the volume with the remote. Anyone know of any Bluetooth speakers that android TV can adjust the volume of directly through the remote?

Sorry, this is really my first foray into stationary bluetooth audio. Thanks in advance!

Some of the videos I watch from my Extrnal Hard Drive use cody have low Fram Rate.

I think it becouse they are so huge and need to be converted to smaller videos.

What setting I should use?

I know how to convert I just need the right bitrate for 1080p videos to work right.

or is there another way?