Title. It's frustrating as fuck. Why can't I just use the Stadia controller on Android TV? This is dumb. They even have bluetooth but it's intentionally disabled.

I managed to get a subscription to HBO Max here in Canada and I was looking to buy a Nvidia Shield to stream it on my television.

Is there anything special I would need to do to load the app on a shield?

I have a canadian google account and I use Windscribe for a VPN service.

Wanted to see if this works before I shell out the $$ for a shield.

Also, would this be possible on one of the new Chromecasts? That would be nice since it's a little bit cheaper.

I own a Sony KD75X800H (XBR75X800H?) android TV. Android v 9.0, latest firmware.

I make use of the YouTube app within the TV. Why is the "Next Video" button missing? If i want to skip to the next video i must always scrub / seek forward to the end then play the existing video to time it out before i can skip to the next video (or rather next Ad -- always with the ads) . It would be nice if there was the usual Next icon to tap onto to move to the next video.

Is it possible to use Button Mapper or a way to unlock this obvious feature?

Hello there,

Anyone having issues connecting to the 5ghz connection, but the 2.4 is perfect, I changed the mhz and the channel I can see the wifi connection but it stays on connecting to the wifi then suddenly changes to cannot find the connection.

Any ideas

Ive had the xiaomi mi stick for a few weeks now. At first it worked great, but than it randomly started turning off and on again, while I would just be watching things on it.

I read I should change the power from the USB in the tv, to a power socket, so I did that. It seemed to help for a few days, but now it randomly starts doing it again.

Anyone else have the same problem or know how to fix it?

Please help. Thanks it advance.

Best regards, Naomi

I set up button remapper on the shield tv and am trying to hit the home assistant api with a curl post command. I have the command working fine from button remapper on my samsung phone, but the same exact command gives me a /system/bin/curl command not found when trying it from button remapper on the shield TV. What's the easiest way to get this working. I don't want to have to root the android tv. Or maybe there another way I can call the home assistant api?

Anyone else having issues with Prime video app? I can login or register and I cal scroll through all the content but can not stream anything.

As soon as I select a video it spins for a bit and says "Something went wrong".

I have tried Clearing cache/data, Re-registration, restarting TV, uninstall the update on the app etc with no luck.

Thanks for the help

For TVs with the built-in mic it would be great if the assistant functionality could be disabled when the TV is playing content. More often than not a TV show seems to trigger the assistant.

I’m fine with using the remote’s button activated mic when I do need it but I like having the TV’s mic active when content isn’t playing (or the TV is off) because it is a decent assistant in the living room.

Is there a way to Passthrough audio? For some reason, everything is coming through in stereo, even 5.1 stuff. I wasn't sure if there was an easy setting switch or if it's a feature not yet implemented by dev.

Thanks for the help!

I have a USB hub that works great with my CCwGT, but when replaced my OEM AC adapter with the OEM ethernet adapter, the USB hub doesn't allow the CC to see the ethernet adapter.

Do we know if any USB hubs are known to work with the Google ethernet power adapter?

I have a CCwGTV working with a USB C hub but don’t have the ability to hardwire to the network (old house, far from router, etc.). I have a collection of 4K movies that are too high of bitrate to play over Wi-Fi, even if I plug the server into the router (making Wi-Fi only need to take care of one side of the equation). For the sake of maintaining the picture quality, I don’t want Plex to transcode the movies to a lower bitrate.

I bought the USB C hub thinking I could load the movies onto a flash drive and plug them into the Chromecast, but because CC only accepts a FAT32 file system and the movies are minimum 20GB, this didn’t work.

My workaround for now is formatting the flash drive as “Internal Storage” on the Chromecast and transferring the movies over Wi-Fi (which takes a very long time with such huge files). With the flash drive formatted that way, I’m unfortunately unable to access it from my computer (Mac) because the format is unreadable to my computer.

Is there a faster way to get these movies onto the Chromecast or am I just SOL? (Was thinking that an ideal way could be to connect the CC to my Mac using Ethernet to transfer the files, although I can’t find any information on how to get the 2 devices to recognize each other). Thanks!

I bought a Hisense H65 series 70H6570G during Best Buy's Black Friday sales. It's a fine tv except for one issue I'm having that, dispite my google/reddit searches, have not been able to figure out. I have not been able to find much discussion which leaves me to believe I have something set up wrong.

With a smartTV, I guess I had an expectation there would me some sort of TV Guide/listing/epg for OTA channels. While watching any ota channels, it will display the current program and its description, but I'm not able to see programs for a future time. In addition, I've tried Google's "Live Channels" app which should bring in epg for IPTV AND tuner channels. But this also fails to populate ota channels (PlutoTV worked as expected). One area to note is while setting up channel sources within the Google app, selecting the tuner will display a notification "The input doesn't support auto-scan."

Other apps on the play store seem to pull in data for only IPTV. Are there any apps for OTA channels? Did I screw up a setting somewhere?

Things I've tried/checked: Location by wifi is turned on (tv is connected via ethernet), Checked permissions, all are on, Tried 'Live Channels' with PlutoTV disabled, Rebooted & power cycles via power cord

Thank you for your efforts to help! Mike

cross-posted with r/hisense

I have unlucky enough to have an AndroidTV which does not support Disney Plus. It does not appear in the app store, and when I load it on my phone and attempt to cast, I just get an error message that the app is not supported (which is weird, since I don't want to use the app, I just want to cast.)

So, I know want to know if the claims on the Disney Plus website are true: If I purchase a Google Chromecast HDMI dongle and use it, rather than AndroidTV... would I be able to cast Disney Plus from my phone to my TV?

If so, is there anyway to "dumb down" my AndroidTV's casting and just do it like the Android dongle, which works?

Sorry if all that is confusing, I just find it wild that the play store that my AndroidTV has can't install Disney plus, and even weirder that I can cast to Chromecast Google dongle and have it work, but not Chromecast Android TV. Any help or confirmation would be great. Thank you and Happy Holidays!

In an effort to lower blue light in the evening, I've got f.lux set up on my computer and Twilight on my Pixel. However, the last major source of blue light is my TV – currently, I have a Chromecast Ultra.

As I understand it, if I bought new Chromecast with Google TV, will I be able to install the Twilight app and therefore adjust the colour temperature of my TV (as long as I'm on the Chromecast / Google TV input)? Will this colour temperature maintain while watching Netflix, Prime, etc. on Google TV?

So with Christmas approaching and us not visiting the grandparents thanks to a certain world event I am looking at options for a user friendly video call. My Philips 7303 doesn't support any webcams thanks to running Android 8. So next best thing would be Google TV dongle and usb c hub for a duo call. assuming that duo plays nice with Google TV, the next thing I wonder about is if there is a chance to remap my Philips remote so that I can use the home button to go straight for the dongle rather than the outdated android version it comes with. I assume that all other functions would work as normal within the dongle thanks to cec and there would be no actual need for the tiny remote? Anyone has tried something like this before ? Thanks

After last update now i see three red dot horizontally on middle of my screen while the background is black, does anybody experience the same for philips 65pus7304?

Has anyone checked if there are VPN apps on the app store of the new chromecast wirh Google TV? Thanks!

As in the title I'm looking for a device with dts-ma and Dolby true HD passtrough capabilities. I recently took a firestick and was disappointed it couldn't handle theese audio formats, so I'm looking for an alternative. Possibly sub 100€, if I have to spend more I'll still keep my wdtv for a few years, since it handles dts and Dolby passtrough flawlessly. Thanks a lot for any help :).

Is there any way to auto-pause what is playing on Android TV if I get a phone call?

Thanks for any help.

Hey guys, i own a Xiaomi Mi Box 3, 1080p Projector, Denon receiver and 5.1 speaker system.

All connected over Wifi (5Hz) to NAS where i keep all my movies. Main usage (Movies, Netflix, Youtube, maybe some 2 player gaming)

Mi Box 3 rocks for the money, but has its moments.. I'm thinking of upgrading to NVidia Shield TV (or PRO).. do you think its worth it on 1080p Projector? Will it give me better image quality? I know i will give me better more stable experience, but I don't know should i go for it, or wait to upgrade later with a 4k projector.