Well, my Fire TV shit the fan a few weeks ago (stutter, glitch lines in the screen, random reboots), so I'm in the market for a new Android TV.

What's the best one around today? Is there any upcoming device I should wait for?

Thanks for any replies!

Is it possible to control an Android TV remotely ? With something like like TeamViewer

We just bought a TCL 50" P8M, and it has certification for HDR10. How can we know if the video playing in YouTube is in HDR? In my phone (that can display HDR), it would say HDR next to the video quality. In the TV, there's only the quality and no HDR next to it. The picture preset is set to Smart HDR.

I recently installed button mapper and was able to remap the four colored buttons to individual hdmi inputs. However, to do so you have to run a shell script via adb each time the tv reboots. I didn't know if android had a Linux rc equivalent to place the shell script without requiring root so it starts with each boot automatically. Thanks!

hi everyone,

i add some devices for my smart home / smart room and one of them is smart IR blaster for universal Infra Red Remote.

this device can help to turn on my TV with my voice command. Turn out, mibox s/ mibox 4 is using Bluetooth Low Energy on it's remote and not InfraRed.

can anybody help to kindly advise me, is it possible to control the smartbox power from smartphone?

thank you and regards.

Hi all!

I'm having a bit of a weird issue with my Philips Android TV. Basically what's happening is that the default launcher (android tv launcher) keeps crashing (or at least that's what it looks like to me).

I believe this is related to Google's Movie & TV app as I'm able to interact with all other channels in the homepage (add/remove) but everytime I click on the movie&tv channel the laucher crashes every single time.

Another thing is that for the other channels (youtube mainly), as I've just mentioned I can add/remove them, but they simply do not refresh with new recommendations or update my subscriptions. They have been showing the same results for about a month now.

Couple of things I've already tried:

1. Cleared data on both Android TV Home and movie & tv apps. No change.
2. I've already wiped all and re-installed the TV (factory reset), but the behaviour stays the same and my channels in the launcher itself don't refresh or reload and stay the same as they were before the wipe.
3. Tried disabling the movies & tv app, and despite it desapearing from my app drawer (OK!), the channel still shows on the home screen (NOK!)
4. Connected to the TV's terminal using ADB over wifi and removed the movie & tv app. Although the app is removed, the channel still shows on my home screen and if I try to remove it the launcher crashes (same as before), but if I try to open it says the app is not found (guess that is expected!)
5. After removing the movie & tv app, since the issue was still present I went on and removed the android tv home app and reinstalled it via ADB. Lo and behold, I'm presented with the exact same home screen as before with the movies & tv channel still present. Even if I clear the data for the app.

This is driving me mad I can't seem to find a way to resolve this.

Anyone had this same issue before? I googled for people with the same issue but all I could find were people that resolved their problem with #1, #4 or a mix of both.

The only reason why I haven't put a screwdriver through the screen yet is because my wife and my daughters are the main users of the TV and I wouldn't even dare to interrup their netflix binge for any reason. This is starting to drive me mad.

Thanks in advance for any help or thoughts you can spare.

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Cheers.

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(PS: while I sit here writing this post down, the home screen has crashed at least a dozen times)

Hi I can not remember can anyone please tell me what button to tap on to Bring up the virtual keyboard and mouse on your Nvidia shield tv pro 2019 screen? I am using a Xbox one controller. Thank you very much

While watching some videos on YouTube I found out the Dolby Digital Plus to Dolby Digital conversion is not available, otherwise the "5.1" logo on Netflix would be always visible (like the Nvidia Shield 2019), it only supports Dolby Digital Plus passthrough unfortunately.

It can't compete with the Fire TV Stick in that regard, so let's see if the new Chromecast device stacks up.

Here's a quick info if you do not want to update the system and want to get rid of the notification. Go to setting, apps, google play services, and then turn off the notification. Hope it helps :)

It was front and center on my OLDER Nvidia Shield and was installed there as well as my Sony X950H but it doesn’t appear in the App Store on my 2019 Nvidia Shield.

Hello, I know this is common problem but I do not have 5 ghz router or ethernet adapter. I tried factory reset, installing wakelock app, set modem channel to 6,7,8, changing channel width 20&40 but nothing happened. Still keep dropping WiFi and I cannot do anything with that mi box. I can't find any solution and need help. What should I do?

Edit: I also installed latest firmware.

HI Anyone can guide how to restrict google play store to install the unwanted apps in android tv?

I would like to program my google home to automatically start my tv and turn on a certain channel when I wake up or get home. The box I would like to buy is the Xaiomi mi box S.

Before I buy this, is it possible to control Iptv? I have been searching on the internet but haven't found a solution. There are some topics here on reddit saying it is not really possible but those topics are over a year old so perhaps there have been some changes

Tl;dr before i buy the Xaiomi mi box s, is it possible to control iptv with Google assistant voice control?

*sniff

I want to sniff an IPTV app to get streaming urls from channels.

I tried several apps but they make all apps go offline. Only Debug Proxy is not making apps go offline but it's not giving any results at all while other give some stuff but I can't reach any channel in that IPTV app, I can't reach any YT video etc.

Any solutions? Is possible somehow to sniff traffic on PC via ADB from Android TV?

On PC is so easy, simple software and you get anything you want but I can't manage to find any sniffing app for weeks already for Android TV.

Is this Android TV issue? When I try to install sertificates those apps offer it says that it's not installed or it can't be installed.

IPTV app I want to sniff is activated only on my ATV device, I can't sign in to another device (ATV emulator for example) to sniff it there. I must sniff it's urls from ATV Box itself.

Thanks in advance!

I'm attempting to side load the spectrum tv app onto my Android TV. I've uploaded the APK file to drive and got as far as installing it onto the tv but during installation it stops and says app not installed. What am I doing wrong? I've tried apps like x plore and file commander, but either app lets me fully install the app.

I've owned a Philips TV (65PUS8204/12) running AndroidTV for ~9 weeks. In the last couple of weeks, I noticed the picture was regularly freezing when watching the Netflix app. Sound was not disrupted, but the picture would freeze for about 1 second. Sometimes the picture would freeze for longer (~5 seconds) and the lip sync would go out.

I tried closing all other apps, but it didn't seem to make any improvement.

After running through the 'Reinstall TV' process, the problem seems to be gone.