I have lots of media on my Drive and would like to buy an Android box and watch it on my tv. I'm not interested in Plex or Kodi. Looking to download Drive from the app store like i would do on a phone or tablet.

Thank you.

Is there any way to avoid people on my Wi-Fi network to use Chromecast built-in on my TV? I mean put a pincode or something. It's anoying because a lot of people have access to the same Wi-Fi network and sometimes stop my the playing content on my TV. I can't do it by Google Home. Sorry for my English, I'm from Argentina.

I'm really having trouble understanding why they made the YouTube experience so bad on Android TV. They own YouTube, they own Android TV, do they hate YouTube? Do they hate Android TV? Do they just hate me?

The ways it behaves are bizarre. Today, I put some music on on YouTube, since I pay for Premium and it (should) play music without interruption. Except it waits a while, maybe an hour, then needily demands that I pull my hands out of the dishwater, dry them off, walk into the other room, grab the remote and click a button to indicate that I don't want it to stop playing the music I told it to play. I'm glad I'm not in a relationship with it, because if I was I would dump it for being so clingy!

After finishing up the dishes and tidying up the kitchen, I decided to sit down and surf some Reddit, still listening to music on YouTube on the TV. Saw some interesting looking posts on news about the protests, went to go look at one of them, and it plays for a tiny amount, before stopping the muted video I just clicked AND stopping the music on the TV, apparently because I may not watch one thing and listen to another thing at the same time. WTF? When did Google become the attention police?

So, OK, guess they really don't want me listening to music today. So I stop the music and decide to do a search on YouTube on my Android TV, looking for live streams of the protests. Should be no big deal, right, there's tons of that going on in this very minute. Nope. There's a live stream from KTLA, KGW, NBC and Bloomberg...and that's it. Oh wait, there's live streams of 24/7 news channels in Australia and somewhere in the Middle East. Meanwhile, going to YouTube on my laptop and there's more live streams than I can even count. After scrolling right on the TV for a long long time (and going past those same few channel streams repeated repeatedly), I can find some archived live streams from like a week ago....yes, that's exactly what I wanted when I searched "live streams", streams from a week ago, thanks Google!

Why do I pay for this again, and what is it even good for?

I installed it staright from the play store and installed the Crew and Exodus add ons. Everything is so slow. It loads links for so long and only sometimes it goes through to a movie. Mostly just loads with no results. I am getting about 120 mbps.

I am in the market for upgrading my streaming device. Currently I am using a FirestickTV and it is functional but sluggish (regardless of how many tweaks I do). A co-worker suggested the NVidia shield and it looks promising but a little on the pricey side. I also have a Leelbox m9S android box already (i stopped using because some of the apps were not supported due to being a kodi box..ie.. Bell Fibe and CraveTV). So I have a few questions:

1 - Does the larger price difference = large performance jump from Firestick TV for streaming

2 - Is the emulation speed better on the nVidia Shield than the Leelbox m9s. The best the leelbox can do is playstation one emulation (just barely in some instances) and I want to do at least what my phone can do (i.e. Gamecube, PSP, PSone, Dreamcast/Naomi, and arcades)

Hi all,

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I'm UK based and I'm set up with Nvidia Shield Pros. I've stuck with them since they first came out 5 or so years ago (although I've just updated to the 2019 ones), and I know they just work.

Back in 2016 I got my dad a fire TV stick (4K version) so that I could also set him up with plex, netflix etc all in one place.

However, I'm starting to really feel the pain every time I have to 'fix' something on the stick because it's so damn slow & un-responsive...

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Can anyone recommend something that's more like the Nvidia Shield (i.e. REAL Android TV OS and not just the tablet version of android like those cheap 'android boxes' you see, as well as being FAST), but is like WAAY cheaper? I'd love to buy him a £150 Shield TV, but I just can't afford at the minute.

Ideally I'd like to avoid Amazon stuff since their version of the OS sucks (IMO).

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Any help is appreciated!

Hi guys.

So I am using external speaker for my android TV but I cannot control the volume using the TV remote if I am in Android environment.

Volume control works fine in HDMI.

Any workaround?

Thanks!

Hi,

I just bought this device (Xiaomi Mi Box S 4K) and as I understand it should support Prime Video completely since there is a bloody button on the remote controller for Prime Video.

However, sometimes it does not open (I have to manually go kill the app then open again which causes to give permission for the device again on website), sometimes it opens but I can't see any thumbnails of the shows or if I just open them I can't select subtitles or fast forward the video.

I did updated all my OS and applications. Any idea what is the cause of this or how can I fix it?

Hi guys!

I have Mi Box S 4k and I updated it to Android 9. I noticed recently that netflix cast button from my chromebook mirrors the screen instead of casting like it used to where I would just get a tiny control bar in the bottom of my screen. Youtube works fine. Has anyone else noticed this?

Also, during screen mirroring, I notice green lines along the bottom of my screen. Is there a way to remove this? How do I improve my screen mirroring quality?

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Thanks for answering :)

As many of you have seen the JBL Link Bar and Subwoofer are on sale as a package deal at BestBuy for $199. For those of you who have owned the device, have there been any software updates? Has the device gotten any better since its launch? I have an Nvidia Shield in the living room that I use as a Plex server, and I'm planning to use the JBL Link Bar in the bedroom to stream local movies stored on my server. Will the limited specs be able to run this smoothly? I have a Mi Box S as well, but the JBL would be a significant upgrade in the sound department.

Hi there

I just bought a MiBox S. There is this setting under "Display" where it says "automatic refresh rate". If i select it, the MiBox sets itself to "2160 / 30p". First question: Why 30p? Does it depend on the cable, or the TV? And is this a "common" framerate?

Second question: If i start Plex via the PlayStore Plex app, i experience micro-lags. There is a setting in the Plex-in-app-setting which says "auto-adjust framerate". If i select it, i'm no longer able to play content.

My expectation would be that Plex tells my MiBox (based on the actual video-file) which framerate it should use. Is this even possible to achieve?

I bought my first smart TV ever a year ago now, which was a TCL Percee 55" with AndroidTV. Anyway, figured I should warn everyone from ever considering the same.

I have never had a consumer product this riddled with bugs before. Holy shit. I thought I'd be safe since after all it runs AndroidTV, but christ... I probably have to reboot this thing daily, because Netflix video randomly goes all black, or the audio randomly disappears. And rebooting is really slow. The entire thing is actually really slow. It will shut down randomly. It will turn on randomly (which can be really creepy when it happens in the middle of the night). Apps randomly will fail to work, requiring reboot.

The worst part is, they haven't made a single attempt at fixing it. Each time I check for system updates, it gives me the response "No reason to update :)". Fuck you, there's a million reasons to update. It's still running AndroidTV 8.0.0, which literally means they haven't made a single update for it after releasing it. The last Android security update it has is from 2018, which is grossly negligent.

TCL has every hallmark of a company which puts in just enough effort to get the product out the door. The aesthetics is 10/10, with a huge thin display with almost no bezels. But when it comes down to living with this thing, I wouldn't be surprised if it actually only has a hamster wheel on the inside driving this thing. I'm 100% convinced they paid for proper design, then got the lowest bidder to make the software. It's crap.

This is what you get when you opt for "the most bang for your buck". You get a blowjob from a crack whore in some back alley. My sincere advice is to go for brands with a good reputation, like Samsung, instead of only looking at the price tag.

I have a 1080p TV that is still going strong, so with no plans on upgrading to 4k soon, should I upgrade to something more powerful than my Mi Box 3? Is an upgrade necessary, or will the difference be unnoticeable? I mostly use it to watch movies on my various USB drives (Using Kodi) and on Netflix. Any advice would be appreciated, thanks!

I have Android 9 TV box which is sold by my ISP (IPTV box manufacturer under my ISP name). I have LG SK4D soundbar which has the ability to auto power on, if there's already paired device nearby. This soundbar normally auto connects to Android phone.

But I have issue with auto connecting this device with TV box. If the soundbar power On and waiting to connect, Android TV not automatically connect, I have to manually add it. Everytime I have to pair it.

Is there anyway to automatically connect Bluetooth devices (already paired nearby devices) to Android Tv box?

I always play Spotify on the shield and activate the screen saver for some sweet images.

I wish there was a hot key on the remote or a home screen shortcut.

Anyway to start the screen saver quicker than going to settings, blah, blah, start now?

EDIT This is not the shield subreddit... leaving it up anyway!

I don't know how my new Smart TV can lack something as essential and basic as a web browser.

Hello community

I have been running 2 Nvidia shields 2019 and 2 MiBox S's for a while. I really prefer these, especially over ATV. However one thing I have noticed, especially affecting my Shields and two specific apps, DC Universe and Disney Plus, is that sometimes the videos won't play and I have to restart the shield. Not a big deal, but it really only affects my shield, have not had this on my MiBox. Additionally I think it is an app thing because my ATV does not do this. The two shields are up to date and connected via Ethernet.

My question is, is there any easy way to on and off Ethernet. I know I can go into settings but seeing if anyone has an easier method that my other family memebers could do easily do as they don't want to dig into settings. I have the quick restart shortcut in settings but I think this is more of a network thing.

Thoughts.