AndroidTV is great, I wonder if we will be able to change the TV volume. once again google will fail, NVidia Shield do it, I want google Assistant to do it as well,

for example: OK GOOGLE, please raise the TV volume.

she will answer: sorry, HDMI-CEC is not fully implemented in AndroidTV...

Hi, I have a MiBox since a year and until yesterday works great. Now I'm trying to use with a 4K tv with poor results.

Kodi has many of lags while playing videos, even if the played video isn't 4K and/or h265.

Basically, the same video is laggy on a 4K, but it looks good on a FHD tv.

Google controls the software on the device. That means no waiting for updates. Unlike my damn Shield TV that still hasn’t even gotten Android O, the JBL Link Bar will have all updates provided by Google.

That alone is a killer feature for me.

All the other cool bits are just a bonus, not the least of which is that I wanted a sound bar anyway.

Silly question is there a torrent client apk for AndroidTv? Have a Nvidia shield and would like to use it with an external drive attached.

Hello guys. I have read the information that flash memory is pretty unreliable. Idk is it truth or not, but just to be sure. So, article says that use of flash memory as disk cache for live and VOD broadcasts can quickly disable flash memory and the author of this statement proposes a solution – USB Flash drive or portable HDD for internal storage. Is my android tv uses flash memory when I watching a movie from USB flash drive or HDD or is it use RAM and I do not need to worry? Thanks.

P.S. Sorry for any mistakes, English is not my native language

With the recent news at Google io of the new JBL sound bar incorporating Android TV I got frustrated.

If I want to run AndroidTV today I have limited options. Replace the 3 NUCs in my house and / or the VM running in my living room with:

• Cheap Android box x4
• Expensive Nvidia Sheild x 4
• Crazy expensive new TV x4

Don't like either option.

With the expected announcements I thought for sure we would get something like what I want. I felt for sure we would get an upgraded Chromecast with AndroidTV on it. What did we get:

• Indication that a developer version of what I want exists but will not make it's way to consumers
• Notice that what I want is coming but is only built into (what will be) an expensive sub standard speaker (to my dedicated receiver and sound system anyway) with what I want built in

I asked myself why they wont make this developer dongle available to consumers- I don't know why - i realised its clearly about packaging AndroidTV into partner hardware solutions. Making money. Why would they want to give us the ability to create our own when they have something they can tell their partners will drive sales.

Bugs me.

I saw an article of Oreo being on beta testers Mi Boxes a while ago, but it's been quiet ever since.

I have one question: Does anyone know if Oreo will eventually reach regular Mi Box, and if so, when?

I don't know if the details of I/O has made any difference, so maybe it will affect the Oreo roll out for Mi Boxes

Hello everyone.

I have a Xiaomi Mi Box, but my controller/gamepad uses the USB drive. So I can not run the games from the external flash drive.

How can I put the ROMs I have inside the internal memory of the Xiaomi Mi Box?

Thanks for the help.

OpenVPN has worked before but I uninstalled it as my previous vpn provided had a ATV app. I'm now using a different provider that requires OpenVPN for Android. The problem is when I try to import a vpn profile I get a "no application can handle this action" toast message error.

Has anyone found a way to fix this?

I saw the JBL soundbar that was in Google ionic, and I have a NVIDIA shield box. Just wondering do you reckon that soundbar rocks especially since it has far field mics built in.

Would it be enough to get rid of the shield, especially since I don't use it for gaming ? I'm hoping that it would have better tuner support than the shield (and I don't have to use Plex).

Pausing Live TV via the hdhomerun app on my Shield is new to me. Not sure when it was introduced. Does anyone know how well this works? How much live TV will it pause? Is it using my shield as the DVR or recording it online?

It'll be triggered at least 20 times.

Hi,

Sorry for coming out strong but I couldn't be more disappointed with my recent purchase. Long story short, instead of spending 500€ on a new smart TV, I decided to purchase a Mi Box instead. After a week, I can honestly say this is one of the worst purchases I've ever made because only Netflix and the chromecast features seem to work. Google Play Music (which was the main reason I bought it for) doesn't play any songs, YouTube doesn't play any videos, VLC player doesn't recognize new files in my USB thumb drive, none of the IPTV tutorials I see online work.

I know this is a dedicated community and will probably get a lot of flack for this post, but I just wanted to express my disappointment with Android TV. Instead of wasting 60€ on this, I could have purchased a second-hand Chromecast for 15€ and get the exact same functions, since Chromecast is all this thing seems to be able to do.

What's even the point of Android TV? Have things always been this bad?

Beta testers were on here showing off, but until they actually start sending it out its just another tease. Maybe they will let google handle updates from now on and make everyone happy.

Hey everyone. I'm extremely new to the Android TV space and I'm at a loss here.

Everything was working fine until I installed an app to hide my root and it requested a reboot. Now it won't go past the logo screen. I can get it into recovery mode, so I'm hoping it's still salvageable.

Here's all the info I could find on it:

On the box:

• Model: A1 Max
• CPU: Amlogic Quad-core Cortex-A53
• GPU: Quad-core Mali-450 GPU
• RAM: 2GB
• ROM: 16GB

From recovery mode:

• Amlogic/A95X_R2/A95X_R2
• 7.1.2/ABOX-I-MAX/20171211

My first go at it was to try a factory reset, but it didn't do anything. My next idea was to reinstall the firmware, but I've looked up and down for a firmware download for this particular box and I haven't been able to find anything.

Is anyone able to help me? If you require more information, I will get it for you.