I just received my ShieldTV and went to set up my adoptable storage and I get a message saying my drive is slow and that I should consider upgrading to USB 3.0. The thing is my drive is USB 3.0 and it is supposed to be fast. Here is the exact one that I purchased.
I'm hoping someone can tell me what's going on!
http://hometheaterhifi.com/reviews/video-display/hdtv/leeco-super4-x55-55-ultra-hd-tv-review/ Confirmed: it runs Android TV. Top notch picture quality performance out of the box, for under $900. Amazing. Also the Amazon Prime app is available, but not pre-installed.
So with the upgrade to Android 7.0, you may notice in the release notes (to Shield 5.0.2) this little tidbit in the release notes:
Added ability to write to attached USB or SD card storage.
They also have a forum post where they go in-detail into the process for setting up external drives or SD cards as internal media.
This post, however, is about how to write files to External drives connected to the ShieldTV over the network, specifically where you have read/write access and where apps have read/write access.
As of Shield 3.2, you could read both the internal drives and the external drives by accessing the "Access SHIELD folders on PC" -- however, you could only write files to a specific location:
\Android\data\com.plexapp.mediaserver.smb
So, you could put all your media files there and Plex would have read/write access while other apps (SPMC, e.g.) would have read-only access. So if you realize you have a duplicate media file on your USB, you could either delete it from your PC over the network-share or try to delete it from within Plex (not from within SPMC even if that's your preferred MC app). You could not write to:
\Android\data\com.semperpax.spmc16\files
over the network fileshare in order to have your media in a place SPMC would have both read/write access (and you still can't)
Now, though, you can do something even better. After your upgrade, you will see on your externally-connected HDs a new folder:
\NVIDIA_SHIELD
It appears that you can (over the network fileshare) read/write to this folder (like you could the \Android\data\com.plexapp.mediaserver.smb folder as of version 3.2). The NVIDIA_SHIELD folder, however, also appears to be writable to SPMC. So now you can rename / delete files from within the SPMC app if you move you store your media in the NVIDIA_SHIELD folder of your HD.
So (finally) after having the box for two years, we can add/modify media from a PC to the Shield and modify/delete that media from SPMC or Plex or whatever program you want to use.
Someone know if there is a way to browse all Android TV compatible apps (the ones shown in the leanback launcher) available on Gplay, from desktop?
The list https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/promotion_3000e26_androidtv_apps_all is not complete, alot of apps are missing, it's also not possible from the Play store on android TV :/. Thanks!
Hey guys,
Couple of weeks ago I got my Mibox (MDZ-16-AB) and I've to say its a nice piece of hardware, almost everything works like I expected.
Now I wanted to attach a USB - Ethernet adapter to my box, because my WiFi isn't the best one (crappy provider restricted Router) and bought a first device from Anker, (similar to this one: https://www.anker.com/products/A7522012 (actual article-no: AK-848061018783)
But no big surpise, it was incompatible and went back to amazon.
Also it didn't work with my LG G3 nor Nexus 10 (both running Android 6).
After that I started to do some research and I came up with the info, that a adapter with a specific chipset, to be exact the Asix AX88772, should be the best choice.
So i ordered an adapter from the (for me unknown at the moment) company ugreen: https://www.amazon.com/Ugreen-Network-Adapter-Windows-B00LLUEJF0/dp/B00LLUEJF0
Interesting, it worked on my Nexus 10, but not on my other two devices. It seemed that the adapter hasn't got any power connected to my Mibox, the status LEDs for the Ethernet connection stayed dark, not even the USB hub worked. Weird behavior, but I spend no second thought on this and shipped the device back to Amazon.
So, i was still looking for a working adapter and i got slightly frustrated, how can it be so difficult?
I went to amazon.com (actually I'm from Germany, but there are hardly an useful reviews regarding the compatibility with a Mibox) and started searching.
There was a box, also from.ugreen which had many different, but reliable appearing reviews, many mentioning the Mibox: https://www.amazon.com/UGREEN-1000Mbps-Gigabit-Ethernet-Compatible/dp/B00LLUEJFU
This time I was sure, this is gonna be a adapter, which will work as I imagined, so I orderered it and held it two days later in my hands.
But when I attach t to the Mibox and the Ethernet cable, theres again no light on the status LEDs, and USB hub isn't working too.
I don't know what else I could try, this last adapter is working with my PC (Windows 10) but none of my android devices is compatible with the Ethernet adapter..