I'm thinking about buying a Nvidia Shield soon and would like to know if I should just buy one from amazon.fr (saw it at 219 euros+shipping to Portugal) or if there's somewhere with a price closer to the 199 dollars like in the US. Thanks in advance.

Thoughts?

Considering replacing my RPi 3 (running OSMC) with a Mi Box 4K. But is it worth the plunge?

Raspberry Pi / OSMC lacks:

• Chromecasting facilities. Especially helpful for YouTube
• iPlayer / Channel 4OD (UK) is ok but really poor and the GUI is terrible in Kodi
• RPi 3 struggles with HVEC content in Kodi

However Mi Box lacks

• Ethernet
• expandable root storage (SD card on Raspberry Pi 3)

Still planning on using Kodi on Mi Box to be able to play streamed videos from my NAS.

UPDATE: After ordering a MiBox 3 (MDZ-16-AB) I've discovered there's no iPlayer or 4oD apps in the Google Play Store that can be installed on it. However the UI is pretty fast and slick in comparison to the RPi3 performance.

Hello-

I havent used HBO Go for a while on my Mi Box (walmart version) and now it wont work. It used to work, however. I activated my cable account and the menus work fine but an error pops up anytime i try and play any shows. I've restarted the box and have checked to make sure the app is up to date. Everything else (netflix, SPMC,etc) work fine. Any ideas? Thanks!

I'm talking about from the PC to the Player, akin to how the Shield does it. Could I somehow port an app to it to do this, or is this an impossibility?

That's it, almost all Netflix videos play fine but the trailer Park boys. It's like a sick joke or something.

TPB stops after playing for a second, no matter what resolution.

I've heard other had issues playing Netflix, but wasn't it almost all videos?

Ive had my Mi Box for about 5 months now and the remote suddenly stopped working. I unpaired the remote and now I can't pair it back. I don't get an option to re-pair it and when I try adding a device via Bluetooth the box doesn't pick anything up. I've changed the remote battery, switched off wifi on 2.4GHz, pressed the back and home button to pair but nothing seems to work. Im not keen to reset the whole box. Is there anything else I can do?

The main reason I got this was for the easy voice search. However, when I search for a movie that I have in plex, there is no option to open it in plex. I have plex pass premium and have already tried resetting my nvidia shield TV.

The only options I have are "Watch trailer" "Google play" and "Vudu" I've tried everything, why the hell is the plex option not showing?

Is there any way for me to be able to play a game title like Modern Warfare 2 on my shield tv?

Hello, i have a Bravia 2015 5.1.1, since a week ago i am not able to play any stream, i can search on the different apps like netflix youtube, nhk world, etc but when i choose some video it just keeps loading, i have tried restarting it and sometimes it plays one video and stops working, does anyone have this problem?

So I just got a new TV. A Sony 2016 smart TV (XD9305), running Android TV.

I bought it because I wanted a 4K panel with very good contrast and colors, which the Sony delivers. Luckily, it was also reduced in price due to being an exhibit piece in the store. So that's that.

Then I realized that the Sony is also an Android TV. I mean, I knew about it beforehand and I've read reviews, but it was not relevant for my buying decision.

Many reviews and buyer's opinions that I've read were mostly negative regarding Android TV.

But for me, it's just great! I love this thing! In retrospective, the fact that the Sony TV runs Android should have been a major influence for my decision... So I guess I'm lucky that I went for this model ;)

• I just had to log into Google and Netflix and everything is right there, including Google Play Movies and my Youtube subscriptions etc.

• Same with Amazon (not a Prime customer, but still I've sometimes rented movies on Amazon Video)

• I installed VLC and now I can directly access all my locally stored MKV-packaged movies on my NAS. This is huge for me. No more codec troubles, VLC for Android will decode just about anything it seems. (In the past, I had my computer hooked up to the TV via HDMI, because that was the only way to play most of the content.)

• 4K and HDR streaming works beautifully with Netflix

• No need for a Chromecast, since the Cast functionality is built-in

• Beautiful UI, fast, intuitive to use (for me at least, as a long-time Android user), with a few exceptions, but that was mostly concerning the initial setup, which is only needed once, so...

• There even is a reddit app (HopWatch) that brings the best posts from /r/pics, /r/videos and more directly to the homescreen

• Voice search works beautifully in English and German (I am the latter)

And all that with Android Lollipop.

Marshmallow is in the works (they'd already started the rollout but halted because of problems), and Nougat is announced for late 2017. So not really timely updates, but I don't care as long as everything works as great as it already does. After all, this is not a phone...

I'm not sure where I'm heading with this post... sorry for the rambling ;)

I get that there are valid complaints about the whole Android TV ecosystem and it's history...

Anyway, just thought I could try and bring some more positivity into this sub :)

- a thrilled first-time Android TV user

seems like the best iptv solution if supported by nvidia shield tv

situation: my very first streaming device the mi box.

performance is fine as am using usb to ethernet adapter.

however just seems to me like androidtv is an unfinished product. many apps have no rewind/forward options (podcasts on tunein radio, etc)

user interface seems in consistent, etc

thoughts?

Sorry if this has already been asked before and is a dumb question, but is there a currently working (as of this week) method of installing the Amazon Instant video app on a Mi Box?

Before you jump on me to DAFS: I've been searching the web and reddit and unless I'm missing something all the methods I found that worked for people in Oct - Dec of last year simply link to the xda forum post that's been removed at amazon's request. i.e. Dead End now. Is there a apkmirror of the Prime Video Launcher apk or other method that works in 2017? I'd rather use an actual Android app made for a remote vs the chrome browser to watch, as some have suggested elsewhere.

Has anyone had any success finding any of the old APKs for the Prime Video Launcher still floating around? I tried the #sideloadtag AMZNIVID, AMZNVID, and PRMVIDLNCH and it downloads but then says 'Parse error'. I'm running version 6.0.1 of the Mi Box fresh unboxed this afternoon.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated to point me and anyone late to the Mi Box party in the right direction :)

I'm happy to sideload or use ADB or get my hands dirty with a USB debug method if necessary, but just need an actual APK to push...

By official I mean it runs android tv, and not some weird android version hacked together to run on a tv.

I currently have a Nexus Player and am looking around to upgrade, but the Mi box is a bit underwhelming. It has no ethernet port and the specs aren't THAT much better than that of my Nexus Player.

Are there any other options that don't require paying tripple the price (Nvidia, Razer)?

Thanks

Hello /r/AndroidTV, I am interested in making an application for Android TV, however based on previous experiences developing for Android mobile, am aware that I will likely have to make sure that I handle device quirks on a per device basis. Does anyone have any data regarding what Android TV models are the most frequently used ones, in order to facilitate getting the best ROI when testing on individual devices? Thanks.

I have had a mibox (walmart) working perfectly for the past few months.

This includes Netflix (at 1080p). Starting any show would be fairly instant, as I have a 1Gb/s internet connection.

However recently netflix has not been behaving well. Shows start very slowly (buffer for many seconds), play at low resolution, and sometimes fail to play at all, or constantly buffer during playback. This only happens on the mibox - other android devices and PCs on the same network have no issues. This happens on both ethernet and wifi.

This is not the 4k streaming problem (as I don't have a 4k tv), and the stream starts up and actually plays (albeit at low quality and constant buffering)

Very strangely though, some (very few) shows play perfectly. They start immediately, and play fine.

Has anyone else experienced this?

I know this is a long shot, but I don't really need a super large TV. I'm looking at around 32-40 inch. Are there any TVs that have Android TV?

Hi all

I have an Amlogic S905 M8s+. It's running KitKat 4.4. With Kodi 17 being released and the streams moving over to protocols which utilise Lollipop and higher I wanted to update KitKat.

I've downloaded a couple of firmware updates and but them on an SD card but I'm having issues finding the recovery mode. I understand that you can use a cotton bud or tooth pic to access a button down the AV receiver. Which I've tried. I can feel and hear the click, however there is no recovery mode bring displayed onscreen when the power is plugged in.

Can anyone offer me any advice regarding how to proceed with this?

If anybody here knows the valid answer why mibox removed shutdown option after certain update in the past? Now we are stock in reboot option, I'm afraid just unplugging the power will kill my mibox someday as issues with android devices (phones, etc). Or any devices.

Let's be honest, Google Play does not provide much application on AndroidTV. What app do you miss most?