Hey all, I just purchased a LuckyOne T95Z PLUS Amlogic S912 Octa-core Android TV Box with 2GB DDR3 16GB.

Ideally, this box would be quite good, but I have a few questions and issues.

My first is Netflix, I wanted to see the quality with Netflix and to be honest, it was horrible, I have 4k HDR TV, and I feel as though the picture was pixellated and was really bad (Has anyone had these issue with Android Boxes before?)

The second is, I am trying to have the android box read my external HDD, but it doesn't appear, currently formatted as exFat. Any suggestions here would be great.

TIA

If I can't figure it out, I will simply return,b ut would love to use it.

My old HDHomerun Dual, to my surprise, was recognized by Live Channels and I was able to scan the tuner for transmissions. This comes as a surprise to me, because the last time I tried Silicon Dust's software was the old HDHomrun View, which only said No Devices Found. I wound up using InstaTV instead.

As long as it's a wired connection from the tuner to the router to the AndroidTV device, which it is, then it works very well. Channel switching is still slow, but faster than I've had luck with on 3rd party software like InstaTV.

The only thing not working is DVR recordings. I'm not sure if that's a designed limitation or a configuration issue. Perhaps this limitation is why they say it's "not supported." Still, it's usable for watching TV.

Anyone else have an older HDHR that's working with this update?

I have a mele f10 pro and wanted to reprogram some keys. I am looking for a program of sorts (Windows, mac, linux or android) where I can get the key code so I can edit a .kl file and add in the required commands. Trying to remap a key to open the voice search, as well as make one of the buttons a back button.

Anyone know if the now remote fully works with the 2015 Shield TV? Will the IR settings for volume control be enable? Currently volume control via IR setting is not even visible on the 2015 Shield TV

At long last, Marshmallow has arrived for me on my Sony BRAVIA KD 43X8305C in the UK.

It... Immediately broke Netflix.

Had to uninstall the app, clear data/cache, reinstall (update), and sign in again. Now it seems fine. The misses was not amused, neither was I.

On the plus side, a Bluetooth keyboard that didn't work before does now, so that's a bonus. Sadly can't seem to pair with Sony Bluetooth headphones though, which I thought was something that was coming with Marshmallow, and was the main thing I was looking forward to. Bummer.

Just wondering if there are any good DVB-S2 USB tuners and if Android TV in general support it?

thanks

Does anyone else have issue with the watchlist on hulu not updating to show new episodes? Shows that should have new episodes are taking longer than a day to show up. Selecting the show sometimes give me the new episode but other times it shows no new episodes. I can't seem to find a way to manually refresh it either :/

Youtube for the Mi Box seems so needlessly stripped of features. Android TV supports bluetooth and other wireless keyboards and mice and there's plenty of screen real estate and to include the things I mentioned.

The other thing that bothers me is that my subscription list is incomplete. I subscribe to 100+ channcels and at max I am able to scroll through a number significantly smaller than that. Finally, I can't seem to figure out a way to disable autoplay functionality which is always in effect at the end of any video I play.

*I'm only asking this at all because I'm unclear if all Android TV devices run precisely the same build of Youtube with identical UI presentation.

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Is there a way to set up the box so that it A). Runs an app on front side always B.) That I can control the box from my work computer when I am not home.

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A little disappointed in the google voice search on my new shield. Using the voice search pretty much only results in youtube links. I tried searching "stranger things" and it says "available on netflix" but the button does nothing. I scroll down and it gives me links to youtube stranger things videos... thats about it. Same results searching house of cards. I tried searching "the grand tour" and and it gave me a little blurb about it, but no link to amazon prime. Under it it gave "people also searched for" and top gear was a result. I clicked that, available on netflix button pops up. Clicking it does nothing....

Voice search is one of the features I was most excited about, and it seems pretty useless.

Hey all. I'm new to Cordcutting. Finally done with DTV and the like. I was interested in the Nvidia Shield Pro for the Living Room and was going to setup Plex on it for Recording/Storage Purposes. My wife is concerned about being to watch that stored media in the bedroom. If I bought a regular Shield for the Bedroom and the Pro in the living room, they can share the media, correct?

At first this thing was amazing. A $70 4K streaming Android TV box was too good of a deal to pass up to supplement my Shield TV. I moved the shield into the living room and the Mibox into my room and called it a day. It used to work perfectly but then little issues here and there started popping up.

1. First it was just apps in general messing up. On both my ADT-1 and Shield I would only occasionally come across an issue that required force closing the app. On the Mibox I have this issue daily if not hourly. It is extremely annoying.
2. The second issue was Netflix. Every time I would switch the Mibox into 4Kx2K mode Netflix would refuse to play anything whatsoever, and before anyone tells me to check everything else in the chain I already have, remember I do have another 4K capable streaming box. This continued on until I gave in and performed a factory reset.
3. After the factory reset apps would still screw up every now and then but other than that it worked just fine. Netflix would play while the box was in 4k mode. Then lone behold more issues cropped up. Now the box will refuse to output sound until I switch to another input device and play sound through that first. This is highly annoying but still workable.
4. The final dealbreaker for me. Now every 30 minutes or so the Mibox will just reboot out of nowhere no matter what I am doing. I have performed a factory reset and still no dice. The box just continues to reboot and interrupt my media consumption.

It was a nice try, but ultimately you get what you pay for. So for now the living room TV will have to contend with its smart TV apps for 4K content, and the Shield TV goes back into my room.

Just got a shield after it was so highly recommended. My tv remote seems DOA out of the box? It won't do anything. Won't pair manually. I tried popping the batteries out and back in but nothing. Is it DOA out of the box? Have others had this issue? Any solutions?

I was using the BBC apps by using a VPN and changing my language to English UK. After the 5.0 update all BBC apps have disappeared. It seems like Nvidia/BBC updated the iPlayer to 1.1.58 as well. Does anyone know how to get these apps back? Does anyone have the 1.1.58 apk extracted from their device?

I just got a Mibox and installed Kodi (official release) from the Play store. seems like there's a slight lip sync issue (comparing the same videos to a Chromecast 2 device that I also have with Videostream).

is it a known issue? I never had to set anything with audio sync.. is there a specific delay value I should use?

So I finally got around to installing some emulators on my Xiaomi Mi Box, and I have some questions.

First off, MAME4Droid... how do you load a game? I'm using a Gamesir G3s gamepad. I put my ROMs on an external USB drive, and was happy to see that it actually let me choose my ROMs folder on it. It detected the games and displayed the list, but no matter what buttons I press, I either get a menu that has Help, Settings, and Netplay, or I get a prompt to exit MAME4Droid. WTF?

Retroarch... how in the hell do you configure the gamepad? I cannot navigate the menus at all, neither with the gamepad or the remote. The only thing I can do is exit the emulator with the remote.

And other emulators, such as Mupen64... how do you choose your ROMs folder when it's on an external drive? I thought I was having the same issue on an SNES emulator, but I somehow eventually navigated to the USB storage, though I'm not sure how I did it.

Thanks!

I missed the $25 off deal from bestbuy. Anywhere else I should look? I'm interested in the pro too.

Is there an app that it's actually working with aTV? The closest I got one to work was "fake gps location" by Lexa, but even tho I enabled "allow mock location" from developer options when I open the app I still get the message that I need to allow mock location in order for it to work. On my android tablet that app is working so I guess it's a problem with aTV. Do you know any app that it's working and that lets you fake gps? thank you

edit: same problem with "location changer" asks to enable mock location even tho I already enabled it.