UPDATE: SOLVED!! Thank you for all the suggestions! Changed my password and will regularly check whos connected moving forward.

My sibling was projecting Netflix on our tv thru hdmi as the tv isn't verified(?) by Netflix when the screen suddenly changed into some porn. We immediately turned it off. We're the only ones at home so no one in the family casted it for sure. I feel like our neighbor accidentally casted it but how?! Can we somehow restrict that? Help please, I don't want that happening when some visitors are here.

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Just bought a Kogan Android TV and I want to be able to turn it off with my Google Home. When I give Google the command, it says "ok, turning off TV", then on the TV it comes up the the dialogue "TV power OFF?" and I have to select OK or Cancel with the remote.

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Is there a way to bypass this "TV power OFF?" option? I can't find anything in the settings (it defeats the purpose of a voice command if I have to press OK on the remote).

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Second question, does anyone have any solutions for the Netflix app? Google Home says "ok, playing x on Netflix... Sorry I can't play Netflix on AndroidTV yet". I've seen some threads here with limited solutions.

I recently completely wiped my mibox (original model) and started over as it had been two years and it was starting to slow down, I decided it was time to refresh.

After the reset, I plugged in my thumbdrive that was working flawlessly before, and all seemed fine for about a week. Then the mibox started saying that the drive was ejected. I tried removing and reinserting, tried a different USB Port (I was using a hub) and even tried plugging directly into the unit without the hub, nothing seemed to work. I restored the system again, and then it told me that it would not read the drive again....

So I plugged the drive into my PC and Windows told me that the drive was corrupted - I did a search and found that it was a common problem with the drive that I was using.

Instead of being upset, I took this as an opportunity to upgrade so I purchased a 1TB Toshiba USB Hard Drive (it was actually cheaper than the thumb drive was!) and plugged it into the mibox. I formatted it as internal storage, and started installing my apps and moving along. Everything was going well for about another week and then I got the same error, that the drive was ejected.

I did another search and found that sometimes ES File Explorer and other explorer apps that are out there cause this to happen, so I uninstalled them. Rebooting the mibox does allow it to "see" the HD and work properly, every time....but after a bit (sometimes minutes, sometimes hours) it always throws the same error and I have to reboot again.

Before anyone starts saying "get rid of the mibox," let me stop you right there - the forums where I read about people having these issues were on a Shield TV forum, so the problem is apparently an AndroidTV problem, not a mibox problem.

Does anyone have any ideas of what else I could do? I saw a post stating to try reformatting the drive to Fat32 instead of NTFS, I might try that soon....

Hey. I've tried to fix a problem and I did force to stop the Chromecast built in app and now I can't cast to that streamer. How can I fix this so I'll be able to cast via Chromecast? Thank you

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I bought a mibox s recently and had the wakeup issue which was frustrating until I turned on hdmi-cec on tv and enabled all options under CEC control in settings and since then it never missed a wakeup from remote it even power on tv too maybe this would work for someone else ? or could be just random luck I thought it’s worth sharing

Hey,

I was wondering that if I were to cast, say, YouTube or Netflix to an Android TV box do you get media controls from your remote? Like, does it just open the app if you have it installed? Currently have a Chromecast Ultra and usually prefer to cast to the build in YT app on my TV because of this benefit, and I've been meaning to converge my TV media consumption to a single device, so this feature would be awesome.

We've got a Sony Bravia Android TV running Oreo 8.0. We've got a USB stick with a bunch of videos on it that shows up when you plug it in, and all is good. But every time we want to watch something on it, we have to unplug it and plug it back in again, I can't find any option that lets us browse to it like and input source. Any idea if that exists?

Hii

I want to buy mi box s and I would use it with my true wireless headphones for movies (jabra 65t) I used it with my computers and it work great

There are any delay problems?(i would use the mi box s with ethernet adapter to the router)

Thanks alot

I have loaded it but it never works. Sony rep said the apk may not be for android TV. Anyone have experience with this setup?

After owning two MiBox's for the past two years I'm finally throwing in the towel and ordering a ShieldTV. The Mibox was a fairly good device at first especially for the price but like many around here know it has been garbage since Orero updates. I have nothing but problems with my boxes, most annoyingly the wake problem. Now yesterday the remote for one of my boxes stopped working properly and the right arrow goes up instead of right so I can't select anything in the menus (even after attempting a factory restore which I had to get to via voice commands).

I really hope the shieldTV will be worth the extra money and I can forget about these little mibox annoyances.

Hello! I recently bought a Nexus Player on ebay for 40$ in order to use steamlink and I would like to update to oreo. Ive heard about how bad oreo is, but I still would like to upgrade. When I click on the about page and system updates, it tells me your up to date even though the box is running Android Lollipop. Does anyone have a possible solution to fix this? Do I need to wait for it to rollout to me?

I have an xfinity subscription and I'm looking to access it on a TV box while traveling. I've used mibox, firestick and roku. Roku is the only one that supports it without having to find a mod apk.

Does anyone use an AirTV player with xfinity stream? Please let me know.

Thanks.

Assuming I don't have Leanback launcher what would people suggest as their favourite TV launcher for Android Nougat? Something which looks nice but also has good customisation.

Are there any modded APKs out there that would improve my experience?

Currently using TV Launcher.

Thnx

Hello Reddit

Does anyone know how I can go about getting a Logitech Wired Controller to work on the Mi Box?

Hello,

I have a 4k Vu49 Google certified android TV 8.0 I been wanting to watch 4k content on it, but sadly Netflix isn't supported on it so I have to side load the app but it runs on hd.

I tried this app called tvzion and I loved it but that too is only showing 1080p

I was wondering is there a way I can straight away buffer 4k content from torrents? Or will I have to download the movies individually and put them on my HDD and watch?

Suggestions please.