I have posted over the last couple of years complaining that I couldn't find an ideal remote for Android TV. I wanted the following:
Extremely simple list, but a control that met it remained elusive. Some contenders:
Shield TV Remote
Stylish, but no power button (can "double press" back and home, but that's dumb). Volume slider is worse than the Marburg virus.
Rii MX6
Good remote, with a keyboard too. But voice button doesn't activate assistant properly, and the mic is poor quality. You have to press a button to wake the remote from sleep. The backlight also makes it hard to use numbers and symbols on the keyboard as they disappear in the glare.
Firestick Remote
The old versions lacked power and volume buttons, but the 4k version was fantastic. All the buttons where they should be, behaving as normal. Voice even activates assistant on the shield.... But the mic doesn't actually pick up sound. Overcome with a PS3 eye camera, but suboptimal still.
But finally, we have a winner - a generic, unbranded remote (Foonee?):
https://www.amazon.co.uk/FOONEE-Control-Wireless-Sensing-Learning/dp/B07PM1BSZG/ref=mp_s_a_1_2
It feels nice and of decent quality. Buttons are responsive and clicky. Media controls & standard ATV nav buttons all work as expected, including a menu button like on the Firestick remote.
Power button learns IR commands. Volume buttons work as expected (I know some may prefer those to be IR also, but I'm happy with this).
Voice button functions exactly as the native remote does on my shield TV, and the mic accurately picks up my words.
For those of you who are dirty perverts that want to use a mouse on Android TV, it has a mouse button that works well. There is a gyro and non-gyro version available.
Also a 'delete' button, which I can't see much utility for but it's there anyway.
Overall, 100% of my needs are met. If I'm being super picky, it could lose the delete/mouse/menu keys to improve aesthetics and simplicity, but absolutely no big deal.
Responses to my previous posts suggested others wanted the same, so hopefully this will be useful for some people if they haven't found this remote yet.
Edit - To clarify, this is tested with the NVidia Shield TV.
If you have TV with Built-in Chromecast/Android TV or Nvidia Shield, could you please help check this.
Step 1: Visit https://vimeo.com/327099174 on Chrome Web using PC/Laptop and hit Play
Step 2: Click Chrome Web 3 dots menu on top right then click Cast...(Choose Built-in Chromecast/Android TV)
Step 3: Click Full screen icon on video
Does the video continue playing on PC meaning it only mirrors the video or will it show "Now casting to your TV" as shown here? / https://plus.google.com/100132233764003563318/posts/bCAFwn7EQGi
On Chromecast Gen1, it will cast the video only as shown on article so you could close the laptop lid and the video still plays on TV. For Mibox, if you click Cast through 3 dots menu then Full screen, it will mirror the video. How about others?
Hi all -- I'm thinking of getting a Sony Android TV, and I noticed that Vudu is missing from the Play Store's list of Android TV apps. Is this a glitch or is Vudu really not available?
I also noticed that YouTube is missing, but I'm sure that ATV has YouTube, so maybe default apps aren't in the Store?
Thanks.
In the GDC presentation (recap here:https://youtu.be/vsaenNSjclY) they mentioned multiple screens. Has there been any announcements for an Android TV app? I'd subscribe if it were as good as Nvidia GameStream.
It's not a big deal, but I used to just hit "play" on any video file (Access is throught SMB, on a Mi Box over the LAN, but that's not the issue) and it worked like a charm after 1 second or so,
Now, it loads (black screen) for like 2-3 second, then like a wierd glitched screen (or sometimes plain green screen) for very very short period, like 0.1 seconds, and then it starts the video.
Same thing when I try to close the video and return to the previus menu.
Pretty sure it started when I upgraded to the latest Mi Box firmware (or android firmware, not sure if there's a difference)
Thank you. I'm not even looking for a fix, just wanted to know what causes this out of the blue.
Edit:
Can it be related to the refresh rate changes? as mentioned here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidTV/comments/b4xzv4/refresh_rate_switching_on_xiaomi_mi_box/