You have to grab the prime launcher from http://forum.xda-developers.com/shield-tv/development/amazon-prime-video-demand-android-tv-t3278778 and use that to install the APK. Then things will work as expected. If you've previously sideloaded an Amazon APK you must force stop and uninstall prior to running the prime launcher.
Does anyone know a good way to get caller id on android tv? Envisioning something like comcast does with their boxes. Only reason I am asking is because we have a 90 yr old whom relies on this feature heavily. I would love to get rid of the comcast box and just put a Shield or Mi Box in its place. I do have caller id hardware (http://nurolpos.com/whozz-calling-4-line-caller-id-box.html) from an old POS system and can code, but hoping there is a ready made solution. Any help would be great.
tl;dr: Puffin TV lets you watch Flash video on Android TV boxes. If you have the Shield, could you please post an APK file for the Puffin TV browser. It's not available right now for Mi Box. I haven't been able to download it from anywhere, including APK sites (it doesn't show up in Play Store searches using Mi Box, I can't push it from my laptop -- see screenshot below, APK Pure doesn't allow downloads to non-Shield devices apparently, even the shady looking APK sites don't seem to have a copy of the APK).
I just bought the Mi Box today and want to watch live streams of CNN and Fox News, etc. using cable company sign-ins.
The CNN and Fox News apps for Android TV don't appear to have actual live streams, and when I sideloaded the regular Android versions of those apps they ran poorly and were hard to control. (The regular Fox News app crashed when I clicked on their live stream called 'Fox News Go'.)
So I want to watch the Flash video live streams from their websites.
But the only browser that seems to be capable of playing Flash video and also being controlled properly by the Mi Box remote control is Puffin TV.
It's not installable through the Play Store to the Mi Box -- see this screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/5X0jVk1.jpg
APK Pure also says it's not available. The other sketchy APK sites that show up on a google search also don't seem to have the actual APK either.
I've emailed the makers of Puffin, CloudMosa, and asked them to allow access to the Mi Box. If anyone here is interested, you may also want to email them to ask: puffinbrowser+androidtv [at] cloudmosa.com
But in the meantime, it would be a help if you have the APK. Thanks.
Ok so I've had mine for a few hours and figured I would start a thread instead of cluttering the availability threads.
I'll go first:
a) Like some others on this subreddit, I am having problems with Plex, with stuttering video and other problems. This is both on wireless and via a USB ethernet adapter.
b) The TrueHD and DTS-HD lights on my preamp don't light up, so it appears that this box only supports the older DTS/Dolby codecs and not the latest lossless ones like the Shield does.
c) I ordered from Walmart online and picked up locally, the guy I picked up from told me that they're not supposed to go on sale until Monday but let me pick it up anyway.
d) Some apps are buggy. WatchESPN will conk out occasionally on launch with an error (that can be cleared by clearing the cache). Netflix is hit or miss, when I put on Law and Order SVU it played great for 3 episodes, but putting Jessica Jones on causes stutter(?) on every episode.
e) Harmony software picked it right up and was straightforward to set up. I'm not going to say easy because that word and harmony's software don't belong in the same sentence, but that's another discussion.
f) You need to wait about 10 minutes for all the included apps to get updated when you first sign in, during this time the device will be a sluggish hot mess. All those apps in their little Xiaomi section come built in, which means after all that you'll need to go back and remove the ones you don't like.
g) Like the Shield, it's pretty easy to turn off the customizations and go stock: http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/159469/how-do-i-turn-off-the-customized-xiaomi-menu-on-the-mi-box
h) I've never seen my shield do this but when you load up the home menu sometimes the tiles load in very quickly but pixelated, and then the higher resolution tiles snap into place. I don't think I've ever seen my Shield do this. It's not a big deal, I just thought it was interesting to note.
My final TLDR: It clearly needs an update, and the Walmart guy telling me that it was supposed to go on sale on Monday leads me to give it the benefit of the doubt until an update or two, the sheer amount of apps that had to be updated on first boot also leads me to believe that the software image put on this thing has to be older. I plan on holding onto mine and depending on how fast the updates come from Xiaomi might purchase another for another TV. For my main box then the Shield is clearly superior (as it should be at that price), but if they can iron out the kinks this could be a great device for secondary TVs or people not willing to shell out for a Shield.
