I've got Crap upload speed, so moving apks from mine phone to Google drive to then download them again to the Mi Box is a ballache... is there a quick way to just shoot the apk locally to the Mi box?

Hey everyone, hoping to get some opinions on Sony Android TVs, specifically the XBR65X750D.

I currently have 2 1080p TV's, one with a Nexus Player and the other using an Nvidia Shield, so I'm all in when it comes to Android TV. I recently picked up a Vizio 4k D-series on sale, but am wondering if paying approx $500 more for the Sony X750D would be worth it. The advantages are HDR10, IPS panel and, of course, the Android TV UI.

The UI on the Vizio is atrocious, so if I stick with it I'll need to use the shield, but if I go with the Sony the shield can stay with one of the 1080p TV's. I find my Nexus player runs sluggish these days, especially compared to the shield, so my concern with the Sony is that it won't be very powerful and will have a difficult time with certain apps (like buffering large streaming files in Kodi).

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

to;dr: Sony Android TV/HDR worth an extra $500 or stick with Shield?

I recently purchased the Mi Box and im curious on how to get Kodi to run in 4K. I set the MiBox in the settings to run at 4K 60hz but in the Kodi systeminfo it says 1920x1080@50.00HZ- Full Screen

I picked one up yesterday and it seems like a great little box but I'm having issues getting Netflix to play. The video will play for about 15-16 seconds and then stop with the error "We're having trouble playing this title right now. Please try again later or select a different title".

I've looked at similar threads where others have had issues and tried many of the suggested solutions but nothing has worked yet. So far I've tried:

• Rebooting the Mi Box
• Resetting the Mi Box
• Updating the Mi Box
• Resetting after updating
• Re-installing Netflix
• Logging out and logging back in to Netflix

The one thing I haven't tried yet is side-loading Netflix but I'll give that a shot. Has anyone found an actual fix for this issue?

This is basically one of th reasons Ive bought a Sony with AndroidTv. It worked fine until a patch ago I think, but right now Im getting very poor quality for most of the streams, especially FPS games. Im not sure if its the app or Twitch who is limiting the the streams to 480p but its very frustrating when comparing to 1 month ago.

Anyone else experiencing this?

I have android tv. Sony bravia. And I also have zazeen iptv(more canadians here?). When I try to setup the TV to connect to the iptv box so I can finally use just 1 remote control , zazeen is not part of the list of choices. When I try to select another because, who cares, right? It does not work. Anyone knows how to update the list?

Will the Nvidia Shield TV and Mi Box bring up on my televison screen the L.A. Times web site if I press the remote control's microphone button and say "Visit Los Angeles Times web site" or "Go to Yahoo-dot-com?"

The Amazon Fire TV 2 box will show the weather and bring up telephone numbers if you speak into the remote control and say "Telephone number for Dry Cleaners in zip code 65201," BUT the Fire TV will not visit web sites or do lots of other things. It doesn't work like speaking into your Android phone and saying "Visit Los Angeles Times" or "How tall is the tallest person on the planet?"

I don't necessarily want the more expensive one. Unfortunately Amazon fire tv can't ship to my location from the amazon store.

As far as I know there is nvidia shield and amazon fire tv, what other options are there and what would you recommend?

So I hooked up my Mi Box to my Vizio M series (4k HDR 120HZ). I'm on Netflix and can't seem to see the Dolby vision 5.1 mark on any of the HDR shows. Just says ultra HD 5.1. When I use the TV's native Netflix app it shows up. The Mi Box is connected to high data transfer HDMI (5 for those with the M series) input on the TV. Just curious what I am missing here?

Thanks

I have recently purchased a mibox but I'm having some problems connecting to my home wifi. I have two routers each with a different network (and name), but for some reason the mibox can only detect and connect to one of them, unfortunately the one it is most distant to. The other network works fine with every other device I've ever used it with (including Chromecast) so I'm having a hard time understanding what's wrong. Anyone else with a similar problem?

Any canadians sideload the amazon video app and have it working? wanted to watch the newest episode of the grand tour on my mi box without casting it lol

Big fan of Android TV, just wanted to say I am disappointed of the black Friday advertising for Android TV. Every other platform had a bunch of sales heavily advertised. I bet they sold millions. Hopefully a few MiBox were sold at Walmart, unfortunately the Shield was almost impossible to find other than Best Buy online only and Nvidia site (which hardly any average customers would be aware of).

So I might take advantage of black friday and get a Mi Box - but I want know how owners are finding the performance of emulators? I'm specifically looking a Retroarch (snes, n64) but I'm open to standalone emus too. Is is fast enough? Is it smooth? How's the sound?

I'd like to use my TV as an alarm (i.e. it would be cool if the TV turned on a music channel at 6am).

The problem is - I don't have a cable & the built-in feature is only capable of selecting an input the TV will start on (& switching to a particular channel if I had them).

So, is there a way to either:

• set the Shield box to work as an alarm clock, i.e. somehow make it turn on the TV at 6am and do an action like launch an app (there are apps out there that start playing music as soon as launched so that would be sufficient).

• if Shield itself cannot be set to work as an alarm clock - is there a way to just automatically launch an app every time it's being turned on by the TV's built-in alarm (less convenient than the 1st option as it would also start the music app every single time I turn the TV on & not just at 6am but that's not too bad I guess).

Any ideas how it can be implemented? I've seen some Dashboard apps for Android phones that may be able to do something like that (i.e. start streaming to Shield at a specific time which should be able to automatically turn the TV on) but the problem is I also don't have any Android devices other than the Shield itself.

I just got the Xiaomi Mi Box International (MDZ-16-AB) today, however I have had issues with connecting it to WiFi. No matter how many times I try to connect to my router, 2.4G or 5G, it says "Wi-Fi password not valid". I have checked very carefully that I have entered in the correct password. My router is a Netgear V7610. Every other device is able to connect to it just fine. MAC filtering on my router is off.

Things I have tried:

• Setting password to "WPA-PSK [TKIP] + WPA2-PSK [AES]"
• Setting password to "WPA2-PSK [AES] "
• Disabling 5GHz and attempting to connect to 2.4GHz
• Disabling 2.4GHz and attempting to connect to 5GHz
• Connecting via WPS -> "Connected successfully" message, but no connection. The connection is saved but trying to connect just gives the same "Wi-Fi password not valid".
• Disabling WPS
• Setting the 2.4GHz radio to b/g (instead of b/g/n)
• Setting up a guest network and trying to connect to that
• Using a simple password = "password"

None of the above have worked. The only thing that allows it to connect is if I disable the password, but of course I can't leave my network without a password.

Strangely enough I can also connect just fine to my mobile phone hotspot with WPA2 password. I have used this to get past the setup screen and test out the features of the box, but this isn't a long term solution.

Is anyone else having trouble connecting to the WiFi with their Mi Box or other Android Box? From googling I see that some people got the same invalid-password error with various android phones, which led me to take the troubleshooting steps above.

It's looking like I have to buy a new router, which I'd rather avoid since it is fairly new, and I don't want to put in $100+ just to get my Mi Box working (every other device works fine).

EDIT: Thanks for suggestions guys. I will try them out when I get a chance.

I just received the international version of the mi box straight from China via Aliexpress. The device storage via the android settings only shows total space of 5.2GB. Thats almost 3gb short than what is advertised. How about you guys? Share your numbers here.

Anywhere we can buy it?

Thanks

Hey there,

I thought about adding a sound system to my W805C. Due to it's position I would like to buy a wireless solution. Is there a way to connect a sound system wirelessly to my TV? Maybe a bluetooth solution or something.

Preferably a 2.1 system with a nice bass :)

Thx for your advice!

Thinking of getting one, want to know has any one setup a USB web camera and Skype on the device, or willing to give it a go?

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Uses will primarily be:

• Netflix
• Youtube
• Kodi/playing media off a hard drive

I'm in Canada so I will be importing one of these and paying a bit more than the USD price but I am okay with that. Just wondering which one would be best.

I was looking to get the Xiaomi box but then the initial reviews didn't seem that great (at least the ones I read).