I posted an early positive review on my TivoStream 4k the other day but have run into a couple of issues so if anyone reading this has any advice let me know. I always have used AppleTV, Roku etc. Streaming boxes that are not set up though Android TV.
Thought I would try this new Tivo device siince I have always been a bif Tivo fan even though I understand the Tivo platform up until this new device was not the same concept.
Anyway I have notice a couple of weird things the last day or two. On one of my Sony TV sets we were watching YTTV though our Apple TV (which is hooked up through our Marantz AV receiver) and out of nowhere the TV set shut off (but not the AV receiver even though they normally shut down together through our ARC system). The werid thing is we did not do anything with any remote controls or touch anything it just turned off the TV set for not apparent reason. Again we were watching through AppleTV not Tivo but it was connected. I had gone into the Tivo menu and set it so the TV would not turn the screen saver on or put the unit to sleep after any particular period of time because I had noticed when I have the screen saver set to go on after 2 hours of inacivity the TV was turning itself on to show the screen saver.
This had only started since I hooked up the Tivo Stream. I decided to disconnect the Tivo unit for now and since then no problems.
In my other room with the second Tivo Stream unit I bought again out of nowhere weird stuff. All of a suddent my TV is not recognizing any of my equipment through the ARC setup and would not control sound to the AV receiver (this one is a Denon) and also would not let me get to certain inputs on the AV receiver. Again this had never happened before so after constantly reboothing the TV set and AV receiver and getting them to work properly I decided to disconnect the Tivo unit and again not problems since. I realize this is some kind of communication issue but not sure if there is any way to fix it.
I am pretty good with this stuff but not as knowledgeable about Android TV based streaming devices as many other people might be and any issues or things to do to correct these types of issues. If I can't resolve it I just won't use the Tivo units but they have pretty good quality so if I can fix these issue I would like to.
If anyone our there has any suggestions I am open to trying them out.
Thanks
Hi There, I’m sorry you’re running into this issue but please rest assured that it is known by us and we’re working on fixes for it now. We have this in our testing labs at the moment and will be resolving with a firmware update as soon as we can