Looking for any you have had good luck with?

My Mi box is actually working surprising well over Wifi, but I would still like an adapter to limited my wifi use as I already have a lot of devices on it.

Thanks.

The subtitle file is in the same folder as the video file, and has the exact same title. I thought it would turn on automatically as it does for VLC on desktop or mobile but it doesn’t. And even when I try to select subtitles it doesn’t work. I can’t even select them anymore. I tried downloading them but when I do it doesn’t confirm that the download has been made. It’s so frustrating.

I get the same problem with Kodi. Kodi acrually detects the subtitles, has them selected but doesn’t show them either.

Can someone please walk me through it step by step? Thanks.

hey guys,

have a weird issue on my Philips Android TV:

Activating a VPN Service via an app (tried 3 different apps) results automaticly in losing my internet connection.

The only solution then is to disable the VPN, plug the ethernet cable out and plug back in.

Anyone had/having a similar situation and knows a trick?

Specs:

• Latest Philips Firmware
• Android TV 9 - October 2019 Patch. Kernel Version 4.9.125.
• TV is connected to a FritzBox Router on 7.12 Version

Cheers

Hola folks UK here. I'm looking for a cheap priced box that will play sky go app. Unfortunately I can't afford the likes of a shield at the mo so any help would be appreciated.

Hi, I just wanted to know if it's possible to deactivate a controller to control the UI of the Android TV (using Nvidia Shield and Nvidia controller). The reason being is that I am using Shadow on Shield to game on my TV (Cloud based Windows 10 machine). But every time I move any of the two sticks or the D-Pad an overlay is activated in the top middle of the screen for adjusting bandwith and other stuff (which is actually not accessable on Android TV, just on regular Android). It is triggered by the input as if you would touch your Phone. Hope someone has any suggestions. Thanks in advance :)

Starting from a couple days ago YouTube is showing gray bars instead of black. This happens with simple non HDR videos.

Does anyone else have the same problem?

I have a Sony 4K8000G with Oreo 8.0.0.

YouTube version 2.08.10

There’s a lot of power outage where I live currently. Every time my tv restarts after a power outage on the YouTube app when I select any video, it gets stuck on a black screen.

Then I have to again restart my TV for it to work, sometimes it does other times I will have to clear the cache and then restart my TV for it to work.

Can anyone tell me how to solve this peculiar problem. Nothing comes up on google search.

It will work perfectly fine most of the time, but then randomly if will not play the audio at the start of the video till about 3 seconds in. On some videos it's an entire sentence I miss when the video starts before the audio decides to join in. And once it gets in this "funk" it will do this for every single video indefinitely until I hard reset the tv by holding the power button for about 5 seconds.

I notice it does it more when I'm switching inputs and watching other stuff, then going back to YouTube, that's when it starts, but I have no idea why. It only does this with YouTube. I've been dealing with it by just rebooting the TV every time it happens, but it's starting to drive me crazy and I'd love it to be fixed for good. Thanks. It's a Sony xbr900e

I want to stream music from my phone, to the my streamer which is the meizu mi box s.

There's a button for that in the app, and when both devices are connected to the same network this button does work/

but my problem is- when i stream to the mi box, the app just goes insane. skipping songs on her own and just going nuts. Like the android tv is commanding it all random stuff while im not actually doing anything.

Anyone has the same problem? i have a Huawei p30 with the apple music app.

I got a budget 4k android TV at black Friday sale price. The display size and quality are decent and I want to keep it for long term use.

But the android features and UI are sluggish and sometimes the input switches to built in chromecast for no reason whatsoever while I am in the middle of watching something like netflix app or youtube app. Trust me no one is casting with phone or any fiddling with remote. Feel the software is a tad bit unreliable and processor and ram are underpowered.

I have a 4k fire tv stick and plan to get a 4K Roku in future. So I don't really need built in smart features.

Can I somehow program my android TV to forget about all its smarts and apps and just sandbox it to work as a reliable dumb TV? Just allow me to choose between HDMI 1/2/3 and do nothing else except volume control and oixture settings?

So I tried to somehow get the Nest Mini to connect to my Shield, in order to stream the sound onto it (the Mini). However, in-app attempts like streaming music are only possible to go in the other direction (to the TV). While other means of connections are only able to allow controling the TV with my Voice through the Nest Mini. Streaming the picture + sound to my Nest Mini through a sideloaded Home App doesn't work, since it doesn't recognize other devices in the same network and so my last chance would've been non in-app means like Bluetooth. Of course this was the most obvious choice for a connection, but having all those devices in one app, you might think they would allow any kind of connection between those devices, especially since speakers like the Home Max were basically made to be used as music boxes. But alright, so back to good old Bluetooth. The only problem is; the Shield doesn't want to connect to my Nest Mini via Bluetooth! It always shows me an error of the pairing not beinv possible and than cuts the connection. The Nest Mini does save the Shield as a paired Bluetooth-Device and the Shield did the same thing for the Mini once, but the connection still didn't work. No matter what I do; resetting the Bluetooth-Application, trying the least common ways to connect or something else entirely, IT DOESN'T WANT TO WORK!

So PLEASE, can someone help me to finally connect those two together? I just want to have the sounds be played by my Nest Mini instead of the TV, why is it so difficult?!

ALSO: My Shield (2017) is rooted, I don't know if this could be the core of the problem...

On my old setup ...the chromecast was plugged into a dumb TV via HDMI with ARC enabled. I could keep the TV in soft power down and still get it to power on automatically and switch to the right input by simply casting to that chromecast from my phone.

I recently upgraded to a 4K Hisense AndroidTV with built in Chromecast .

When I keep TV in soft power off mode (not shut down) ..the it seems to disappear from network altogether.

I would like to have the same freedom to power up chromecast on demand by simply casting from any phone or app. Don't want to have to pick up the remote first to power up the TV. Any solution for this? Thanks.

Hi,

I have a Philips 7503, with android tv and i want to turn on and off the tv with commands from the google home mini but the tv isn't responding. I can mute and play youtube, but this 2 commands won't work.

Is it possible to make this commands work on tv's with chromecast built in?

I just bought an LG TV which, to my dismay, doesn't support cast, but uses proprietary apps for any thing you want to cast. YouTube from the phone launches the YouTube app, Netflix the Netflix app, etc.

Is there a cheap HDMI thing I can buy that will make the TV support cast or Android TV? Also, the fewer things I have to agree to track me, the better.

my in-laws are here from china to visit for several months, and they brought a new Mi S from china so they can watch some chinese shows. Everything is set up and and signed in, but they can't watch anything, it keeps telling them they can't watch in this region. Is there a fix for this or somewhat easy hack? the box is all in mandarin, so i can't really help with anything too in depth. Any help would be appreciated.

For My Android 9.0 TV ( Sony Bravia)

On my Shield 2015 with latest non-hotfix firmware and updated apps, Live Channels sees Pluto as a source and loads guide data but when I try to watch a channel I just get an infinite blue loading circle. Tried uninstalling Live Channels and Pluto, granting permissions to Live Channels, etc., but nothing seems to work. I'm about ready to try a factory reset on the Shield. Anyone else experiencing this?

Hi guys just bought the TV and thank god for this subreddit because I am but stuck.
So even though I have a decent speed internet I have low data cap. Which makes it difficult to stream Netflix on decent quality. But on an article in the interwebs it says you can manually set your resolution to 1080p so you dont stream on 4k since Netflix does not give you the choice.

And I for honestly can not find the resolution settings anywhere, there is a resolution setting in Picture>Clarity>Resolution, but it is a slidebar going from 0 to 100. Am I missing something can you help me please? Many thanks in advance!

I run Mullvad VPN on my s10 plus phone using wireguard. I can't find this on my new 55 inch Hisense through the Google play app. Any suggestions?

I hope that just by bringing this up you will know what I mean.

I moved from Chromecast to an NVIDIA Shield about 3 months ago. I still really enjoy finding content on my phone and casting, but I also like the advantage of lean-back content choosing using the remote and all the other advantages of the Android TV platform. What I don't like is having to remember how I got the content playing. While watching Youtube for example I'd like to be able to cast from my phone, then later press back on the remote and find myself in the android tv shield menu, then later load another video using the remote and add to the up next list using my phone. That would be intuitive to me. As it stands I have to remember how I got the content on the screen and stay in my lane.

Wirelessly of course. Thanks.