The Droid TV thread

Ancalagon said:
I've never seen anything that it didn't play well, even multi GB HD movies. The only reason it struggled with some of them was streaming over HD, which I've fixed now by repositioning my PC's wifi adapter. It was the PC at fault, not the Droid TV unit.

The UI is fine, its just Android and XBMC. Really nothing unusual.
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I use the LAN cable - way more efficient for streaming. Wifi sucks for anything taxing, especially when you have multiple workstations.
 
Well, if you can access google play store... there is not a lot of stuff it won't be able to play. And if it can't, people will soon write an app so it can.

Even on the stylus I can access my external HD that is connected to the PC via wifi... So I am seeing a lot of potential in this.
 
ReenenLaurie said:
Well, if you can access google play store... there is not a lot of stuff it won't be able to play. And if it can't, people will soon write an app so it can.

Even on the stylus I can access my external HD that is connected to the PC via wifi... So I am seeing a lot of potential in this.
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Yep - my external 2Tb Hard drive stays connected to the Droid TV box which is connected to the lan via ethernet so I can access it from anywhere.
 
iaywtimnbe said:
Definitely plays DivX AVIs and HD, though you might find some fussy folk who argue about 1080 vs 720 upscaled, etc.
Plays m4v, mp4, etc. etc.
Playing those formats has nothing to do with the box - it's android. If android can play it, the DroidTV can play it. Perhaps those were done when the firmware was new?
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Ah ok. My apologies then, must've been something else. :)
 
Sl8er said:
Ah ok. My apologies then, must've been something else. :)
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No worries, thing is, it's not perfect in that you have to jump through hoops to get some stuff working, but it does way more than anything else I've looked at.

I've owned Tivo (best for PVR by far), Noontec V7 (plays well, not very flexible and boring interface), Roku 3 (streams well to the limit of your ISP but don't ask it to play from USB) and now Droid TV. The Droid TV is like having a PC on your TV... smarter than a smart TV.
 
iaywtimnbe said:
No worries, thing is, it's not perfect in that you have to jump through hoops to get some stuff working, but it does way more than anything else I've looked at.

I've owned Tivo (best for PVR by far), Noontec V7 (plays well, not very flexible and boring interface), Roku 3 (streams well to the limit of your ISP but don't ask it to play from USB) and now Droid TV. The Droid TV is like having a PC on your TV... smarter than a smart TV.
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Good to know!
 
Very cool thread guys.

Quick question if I may, please?

2 TV's in seperate rooms, an external HDD (DSL to come later) with movies and series, etc on the HDD.
How would a DroidTV handle this scenario best?
WRT being able to Stream said media via Wifi or Ethernet to both tv's independently from the 1 external HDD connected to a DroidTV via USB.
Or would I need 2 DroidTV's, 1 for each TV which is then connected to the HDD?
 
AVSupply said:
Hi Shake&Bake,

Sharing USB content is possible off the MX. If going with the DroidTV (Android), there are some Samba apps available that allow you to share the USB mount. On the MX IPTV Box (Same hardware as the DroidTV MX but running a custom Linux XBMC firmware), it will automount and samba share the detected USB media.

In my setup I have 1 x MX IPTV Box with a 3TB drive connected, and share all the content to our two laptops and desktop computers. I do have a dedicated Ubuntu server, but prefer to go green, so power it off and have all the popular kids movies, TV-Shows, etc. on the 3TB drive.

The MX only consumes about R80 worth of electricity a year so I leave it running 24/7 :)
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Thanks for the reply.
I'm being slightly doff here - also my mind's clouded with work (don't tell the boss :p ) - If I were to go the MX IPTV route, connect a drive to it, what would then be the best way to have the TV's connected to then access the media?
 
Shake&Bake said:
Very cool thread guys.

Quick question if I may, please?

2 TV's in seperate rooms, an external HDD (DSL to come later) with movies and series, etc on the HDD.
How would a DroidTV handle this scenario best?
WRT being able to Stream said media via Wifi or Ethernet to both tv's independently from the 1 external HDD connected to a DroidTV via USB.
Or would I need 2 DroidTV's, 1 for each TV which is then connected to the HDD?
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I have exactly this. Currently I have a 15m HDMI to the bedroom and a short one to the lounge TV from the DroidTV. Either manually switch the cable or get an HDMI switch that allows you to connect it to the remote or near TV using a remote. You even get switches that allow viewing on more than 1 TV simultaneously... as well as switches that allow multiple in and multiple out so that you can switch between various sources and outputs.

Otherwise as AVSupply suggests, get a second DroidTV and stream from the HDD mounted using SambaDroid on the first DroidTV (free in the play store). You can also stream directly to other android devices or windows PCs.
 
Why is this thread in the review section, it's a support thread for the DroidTV?
 
AVSupply said:
Awesome, we back where we belong :)

Thanks

ps - Can you autostart Sambadroid and mount a drive share?
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Yes :)
The free version of Sambadroid allows you one share and one user. I have mine sharing the external drive at the root. If you want more shares, you just get the pay for version.
To have it run at startup, get the autostarter app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.splunchy.android.autostarter
...and configure it to run whatever you like at startup (mentioned in the opening post).
The machine is by default available at \\sambadroid
I have nzbget and sambadroid run on startup.
 
iaywtimnbe said:
Yes :)
The free version of Sambadroid allows you one share and one user. I have mine sharing the external drive at the root. If you want more shares, you just get the pay for version.
To have it run at startup, get the autostarter app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.splunchy.android.autostarter
...and configure it to run whatever you like at startup (mentioned in the opening post).
The machine is by default available at \\sambadroid
I have nzbget and sambadroid run on startup.
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Cool. I ended up installing Samba Server (Ice Cold Apps). It has quite a few config options and allows for auto starting

The free version is limited to 1 share
 
What media player do you guys recommend using for my ATV400 unit?

Also the unit came with XBMC frodo on it, if I add a usb drive Android picks it up but nothing show's up under Videos - Files in xbmc?
 
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Hemps said:
What media player do you guys recommend using for my ATV400 unit?

Also the unit came with XBMC frodo on it, if I add a usb drive Android picks it up but nothing show's up under Videos - Files in xbmc?
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You might need to add the content manually, Go to Videos / Add videos / Browse / Root filesystem / mnt / usb_storage
 
Another issue, the device has Netflix, Amazon and some apps I don't want or will never use, I remove them but when I power up the device from scratch again, a screen pops up and re-installs the apps I removed?
 
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