The Xiaomi was supposed to replace a ATV stick I ripped out of a projector to use on a TV out the back.

I got the Xiaomi 3rd gen from my countries trusted equivalent of Amazon. The store used to be a brick and mortar store. The device came with an international AC plug in the box but atleast had an adapter thrown loosly in the bag. Since it's Chinese I didn't think much of it.

I was frustrated with Stremio stuttering to the point of not being able to use it, and thought there's no way this should be worse then the ransom stick I've been using.

There was also no way to enable Developer Mode (as I've done on all ATVs and Phones) no matter what I did, even after a reboot.

I'm glad I was going to do this to remove the Xiaomi stuff. It sent me down and internet hole and I found two key posrs on another social media site btw Fuck Spez.

Lookup those lists for more info but some of the key tells are.

• Back writing on the back of the decice
• Name of the pre installed Netflix app
• Device listed as something else in your Google account (but this might now be fixed)
• Cant enable dev mode (not sure if all the fakes are like this)

There's some extra apps you can install to tell too, but from the box and device it's almost impossible to tell.

Other users have got these form Amazon.

Anyways. Just thought a post should exist on the fediverse.

Hello everyone,

New version is out, lot of work had been done.

v1.10.0 (current) NEW: Watch Next Hybrid: Unified "Continue Watching" row combining progress from all streaming apps (requires enabling Watch Next service in System Integration)

NEW: Android TV Channels: Full integration with Android TV native channels for enhanced content discovery (requires enabling Watch Next service in System Integration)

Massive home screen optimizations: Significant improvements to stability and fluidity for smoother navigation

Enhanced Trakt sync: No longer runs continuously on every app launch; progress sync now uses Trakt's standard API

Stability improvements: Attempted fix for black screen issue when returning to the app

Animation refinements: Improved image loading animations in rows and various popups

Fixed Discover screen navigation: Resolved navigation issues in Discover screen

Fixed home screen settings navigation: Corrected navigation behavior in home screen settings

Watch Next is new and a bit fuzzy, please give some feedback. For Stremio users, if Watch Next feels unstable, use the continue watching from Stremio. Only downside, Watch Next has the play on click while Stremio row takes you to movie detail screen.

More optimisations need to be done, issues to be addressed, trying to add feature and fix bugs at the same time.

Download:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zeule.hegemonlauncher

I still have a little anonymous pol, last one decided Watch Next implementation:

https://forms.gle/d4Nq2CRVP4NFRFZh8

Thank you all for your support, really, it does matter, motivating me to work on this project.

When a direction button is clicked. It will move and then a moment later move 3-5 times again in quick succession.

Has anyone had such an issue and if so what did you do to solve this

Hi folks,

I have connected an old camcorder (using cassettes) to the analoge composite input (red-white-yellow). I would like to record the video coming from this source.

Do you have any idea how I could do that? I failed a dozen times using different apps.

Any help is much appreciated! :-)

A second hotfix for the #NvidiaShield was released the other day:

from nvidia forums: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/shield-tv/9/522242/shield-experience-upgrade-911-hotfix-image/

related reddit thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/ShieldAndroidTV/comments/1fzi0o1/new_update/

Researchers still don’t know the cause of a recently discovered malware infection affecting almost 1.3 million streaming devices running an open source version of Android in almost 200 countries.

Security firm Doctor Web reported Thursday that malware named Android.Vo1d has backdoored the Android-based boxes by putting malicious components in their system storage area, where they can be updated with additional malware at any time by command-and-control servers. Google representatives said the infected devices are running operating systems based on the Android Open Source Project, a version overseen by Google but distinct from Android TV, a proprietary version restricted to licensed device makers.

Hi to all! I have a TCL TV with android TV. A very low budget TV and I'm looking to change the launcher, but I've read that it's practically impossible. Any recommendation?

Has anyone else had this issue and is there a fix? Thanks.

I was trying to debug an issue I have connecting to a NAS, so I was checking the logs of UFW and found out there are a lot of connections being blocked from my chromecast HD (AndroidTV) on different ports via the local IP.

Sometimes I use jellyfin, but that's over tailscale, so there shouldn't be any traffic over local IP, just over tailscale's IP.
But shouldn't have traffic right now since I wasn't using it and didn't have tailscale on.

The ports seem random, just sometimes they are tried two times back to back, but afterwards another random port is tried to be accessed.

After seeing this I enabled UFW in my daily machine and the same type of logs showed up.

So, do you guys know what could be happening here?
Why is chromecast trying to access random ports on devices in the same network?

Does anyone know if there's a way to launch f launcher instead of the shitty Google home screen when the unit resumes from sleep? I essentially want to make it where I never ever see the Google home screen ever

An attacker requires physical access, but it’s possible to sideload Chrome onto some Android TVs which then gives access to the users’ email inbox. Google says it’s now fixing the issue.

Personally, so far I've only added SmartTube, but curios of anyone has any additional sideloaded apps to recommend?

I have a Chromecast with Google TV, and I want to cast content to it from an iPhone. However, the iPhone app with the media only supports AirPlay. There is also no app available for the chromecast by the media provider.

Is there a good app for streaming using Airplay to my chromecast? (Something like AirConnect) I would like if the app doesn't have ads, and the app being open source is always good for me.
(AirConnect doesn't work with the app using Airplay, I'm just using it as an example.)

Hi, I've been using this app since I bought Mi TV QLED 55" earlier this year. This is like Revanced but for Android TVs. It blocks ads and has some additional features. Hope you like it.

Help! I'm not sure if requests for help are allowed. If not, I apologise and please let me know where to ask this. Since a day or two, my Google TV is missing about 90% of the preview thumbnails. Only the "continue watching" section and the YouTube links is still showing them. Deleting various caches didn't solve it and I have no idea what to do next. Preferably I don't want to factory reset due to various settings and logins I not sure I'm able to restore. Also I should mention that I side-loaded SmartTube and about the same time the issue started occurring. Not sure if related though. Help would be much appreciated.

Help! I'm not sure if requests for help are allowed. If not, I apologise and please let me know where to ask this. Since a day or two, my Google TV is missing about 90% of the preview thumbnails. Only the "continue watching" section and the YouTube links are still showing them. Deleting various caches didn't solve it and I have no idea what to do next. Preferably I don't want to factory reset due to various settings and logins I'm not sure I'm able to restore. Also I should mention that I side-loaded SmartTube and about the same time the issue started occurring. Not sure if related though. Help would be much appreciated.

What is your hardware upgrade wish list if Google does release a new Google TV 4K?

My uncle recently gave me an old Minix Neo X8-H Plus. It has been upgraded from the stock Android KitKat up to Lollipop, and it has been rooted. I have connected a USB DVD drive, but I haven't tested it yet.

I had Kodi on a RPi for a while, but I am otherwise completely new to this sort of thing.

I couldn't install F-Droid, so I decided to use Aptoide TV instead of Play Store.

So, what should I do with the device? Any app suggestions? Settings I should change?

On my Fire TV 4K Max, when I perform a search with the keyboard visible, Alexa will type out what I say into the search box.

If Alexa enter the wrong phrase, I can just hold the search button and say the new phrase and it will overwrite the old phrase and perform a new search.

I recently purchased a Onn 4K 2023 box and I seem to have to manually delete the previous search terms before performing a new search. Otherwise, the new search terms will just be added to the end of the old search terms.

Is there anyway to change the behaviour to more like the Fire TV voice search?

The Chromecast with Google TV we know today has been available since 2020 and is due for an update. As we’ve reported, that might be on the way, and it seems the Android TV 14 Beta is revealing what might be a new Chromecast remote for Google TV.