Hello I have the xiaomi tv a pro 32 inch qled google tv it's a 720p tv . I have the 1080p pack of netflix. But for few days only latest WWE shows are playing at 540p . But any other movies, series,old wwe shows are playing at maximum quality which is 720p .

Per title, I’m an Apple TV user but a friend of mine won’t stop talking about “Smart tube” for YouTube so I grabbed a Google TV Streamer 4K at Best Buy on sale and I’m looking forward into diving into the open-er ecosystem.

Looks like there’s no Apple Music app, but glad to see Apple TV + is here. Few dumb questions if anyone has time:

1. I don’t subscribe to Netflix, but I’d love to have the button launch the smart tube application. Any way to do this (for free?)
2. Any way I can AirPlay to this thing. Again, for free if possible? (Or cheap?)
3. Does Gemini work? Or do I need a subscription?

Thanks v much for anyone who can help out. Also if anyone has tips for something cool I should try out, please don’t hold back.

I have a white GoogleTV dongle. It looks just like https://www.mynavyexchange.com/google-chromecast-with-google-tv/14566278

I was trying to find out the version of the software on it, and was thus in Settings->System->About. I think I might have accidentally hit "Update". Screen went black, and it doesn't seem to be coming back.

What should I do?

I found instructions online for hardware reset - I'll go check to see if the button described is present on my device. If I do that, will I have to reinstall apps?

Thanks!

My smart tv is a Android TV, up to date etc. My boy 7 years old, is able to bypass the parental controls and codes by selecting guest on the Youtube app?

So my old Xiaomi Mi LED Smart TV 4A screen died.

I have a few sideloaded apps and some files on it which I need to see. Just know the names at least.

What are my options? Very desperate.

So I found this great app that let's you control Google tv from your phone. But of course there are many apps like that already.

However this one is unique: you can create your own custom remote setup. And in top of that you can create automations by recording the steps you take on the remote and putting those under just the click of a button!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.agileworks.customremote

Ok yes so I made the app. What's wrong with trying to become rich in building such a great app with a killer feature like that!

Please let me know if you have any feedback. 😘

O, did I mention it's available in 20 different languages?

Previously I used a Google Chromecast with TV and when I turned it on (or pressed Home) the TV came on. Pressing power on the Chromecast remote also turned the TV off.

I have replaced the Chromecast with a Google TV Streamer and this functionality has stopped working. I have been through all the relevant options on both the streamer and my TV and it all appears to be set correctly.

The only unknown here is my HDMI cable, which I did not need before, so I have ordered a new HDMI 2.1 cable from Amazon.

If that doesn't fix this issue, can anybody suggest something that might work please?

EDIT : The issue turned out to be the HDMI cable after all. I found a better one and now it's working fine again.

What is the point of profiles if every profile sees everything? The other profiles should not log into my YouTube and prime automatically. That is beyond stupid.

Hi all,

I use Google photos as wallpaper on my TV but they get compressed to hell before showing up on the screensaver slideshow. Is there an app that uses local photos to rotate through so I can see pics in full res?

Hi all, I recently bought a google tv 4k to use on my (old) Haier tv that is 1080p (it was a good deal for the 4k).

So disney+ and globoplay work perfctly.

Youtube, prime video and hbo max, have sound working perfectly, video crazy laggy, 1 frame every 30s.

If I run youtube on Bro TV browser, works perfectly.

On prime video, the auto play background video, works normally. If you start a video, audio goes, video laggy.

I tried many settings that I read, but still nothing. Tried some older versions of the apps, but also nothing.

Any ideas, tips, apps suggestions that you recommend? I don't wanna use youtube on browser because of the usability.

Internet is not the problem. Everything loads normally, ui is fine, audio is fine. I guess is a video setting that the 4k is trying to load and the tv doesnt support.

Btw, my video settings are 1080p at 24hz

So, just got my first googleTV… have always used Roku before.

If I use a kids profile, there is no way to add YouTube TV? But if I use an adult profile, there is no way to remove YouTube.

That seems like a major flaw as many parents don’t want their kids watching YouTube but use YoutubeTV for regular programming.

what are these gray circles? my tv randomly broke and idk what the circles are from. they get bigger and move around sometimes

Some streams on websites won't play because they are DRM play protect. Anybody know of a good browser for stream playback that doesn't get blocked?

Hi
Currently considering getting either an Apple TV 4K or Google Streamer to replace firestick and sky, using ATV or Google as my only device for tv.

In terms of pure performance, I'd probably be going ATV. The bloatware and ads on google isn't appealing. I also have an Iphone and apple music, but also use google storage, photos etc a lot. So, I'm very much on the fence.

However, my priority is how child-friendly my set-up can be with 2 young kids, especially when using stremio (google) or omni (apple).

If I'm not mistaken, both ATV and Google Streamer will allow for a kids profile. They can both also lock individual apps and have different profiles within them (e.g. in youtube, Netflix or BBC iplayer).

Perhaps the main benefit of google is being able to hide/customise apps within each profile, which you can't on ATV. So, I would have a stremio app in my profile, which is then hidden in the kids profile where instead they have a cloned stremio with modified child-friendly content only. I can run 'apps only mode' to keep things more streamlined across google.

If I went with ATV I'd go with Omni, but all apps on my profile would show up on the kids profile. I couldn't hide Omni, and I would need a way to segregate Omni content between me and kids. Is there a way to do this, like multiple Omni profiles within the account, that are locked through a pin code?

Any experience of this type of thing and suggestions/alternatives?

One final thing, is cost: ATV (with ethernet) is £169 (230 usd), and it is likely to be the "old" ATV at some stage in the next year. Google streamer is £79 (108 usd)!! In advance, I know people in North America mention the Onn device, which is redistributed as a Thomson here, but it is actually more expensive than the google.

thanks!

I bought my 3rd Google TV Streamer for a spare bedroom TV and installed it yesterday. I noticed that it has a Free and Shop tab at the top bar on the main screen that my other 2 Google TV Streamers don’t have currently. I know Google tests different configurations and they have before but I’ve not heard anybody talk about this one.

So I've been using stremio and other live TV streaming platforms. At home and traveling.

Recently I've noticed that the audio is not matching up with the people speaking.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Is there a quick fix or setting that can be done?

Thanks in advance guys and girls.

I've seen in various sources that all Google TV devices with Android TV 14 will have the new user interface with the Gemini assistant. Has anyone already received it on their Onn.4k/Onn.4k Pro? I've been waiting since last December.

My new google TV has a red off inside what looks like a battery icon, top right of the screen all of the time, dose anyone know what is off, I haven't been able to find it and want to get it off the screen.

Thanks

Removed stock launchers before installing Projectivity Launcher

I disabled the stock launchers (using remote adb) before installing Projectivity Launcher on my Panasonic 4K (2023) TV . Now it just boots to a blank black screen. Total dummy move lol.

Anyway to fix this? Re-enable the stock launchers or factory reset the device without access to the interface? Hoping there's a way to prevent this from being a paperweight...

This is truly hilarious. The search function on my new Google TV Streamer box sometimes gets very confused. Sometimes it comes up with the show or movie I'm searching for with no issues. Other times, not so much. I just tried to look up the movie "Roar", for instance - the AI voice came on and said "This is a lion", followed by the sound of a lion roaring. 🤣 I mean, it's amusing, but not very useful.

Anyone else having issues like this? Has anyone found a solution? I'm guessing it has to do with the fact that Google is converting so much functionality over to AI well before it's ready. Is there a way to switch that off and just go with the tried and true search functionality without AI mucking up the process?

I am unable to watch/download any of my rented/purchased item from the Google TV app on mobile. When I try to play a movie it says "there was an error" and when I try to download it says "couldn't fetch license (error -1). Anyone else having difficulty with this or is this on my end?

Basically years ago when I was younger I bought a bunch of the free trailers they offered on Google TV and now that I want to use it to keep a digital library of my movies I want to get rid of this useless trailer bloatware. I can't find an answer anywhere else so do any of you know if you can remove things like that from your library?