The Droid TV thread

xbmcfan said:
Lots of sellers on bidorbuy disappeared.
The ones still selling use drop-shipping, they don't carry any physical stock and don't buy in their own name so they don't need to be ICASA certified.

I wonder about all the PC shops selling USB wifi adaptors for R50-R200.
They must also get ICASA certification for each device at eg. R4000 per device.
10 different routers and USB wifi adapters and they have to spend +- R40000 before even selling anything.
Most probably don't comply.

What does ICASA actually test on a USB wifi adapter, cellphone, tablet, tv box, router, wireless remote gates, baby monitors, wifi speakers or Samsung TV with built-in wifi to justify the cost of R4000(might be higher, don't know exact cost) per device?
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They test bugger all. You fill out an application form and submit all the relevant test reports, photos and diagrams from the manufacturer. Its R4000 per item and R2000 for a variation of that item. A friend of mine once dumped a shipment of bluetooth adapters because it was too much efford and cost to deal with ICASA. ICASA can fine you R250 000 for each item you sell that is not approved.
 
JvanD said:
AVSupply renders awesome support. He is really respected in the rom community and has seen a lot of praise even on FreakTab from other legendary firmware creators.

AVSupply will bounce back
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Agreed. My next Droid box will come from AV Supply.
 
ODROID-C1

Interesting. It's $35 and pretty much the same board as in some of the Droid TV Boxes.

Amlogic ARM® Cortex®-A5(ARMv7) 1.5Ghz quad core CPUs
* Mali™-450 MP2 GPU (OpenGL ES 2.0/1.1 enabled for Linux and Android)
* 1Gbyte DDR3 SDRAM
* Gigabit Ethernet
* 40pin GPIOs
* eMMC4.5 HS200 Flash Storage slot / UHS-1 SDR50 MicroSD Card slot
* USB 2.0 Host x 4, USB OTG x 1,
* Infrared(IR) Receiver
* Ubuntu 14.04 or Android KitKat
 
dualmeister said:
ODROID-C1

Interesting. It's $35 and pretty much the same board as in some of the Droid TV Boxes.

Amlogic ARM® Cortex®-A5(ARMv7) 1.5Ghz quad core CPUs
* Mali™-450 MP2 GPU (OpenGL ES 2.0/1.1 enabled for Linux and Android)
* 1Gbyte DDR3 SDRAM
* Gigabit Ethernet
* 40pin GPIOs
* eMMC4.5 HS200 Flash Storage slot / UHS-1 SDR50 MicroSD Card slot
* USB 2.0 Host x 4, USB OTG x 1,
* Infrared(IR) Receiver
* Ubuntu 14.04 or Android KitKat
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I had a look at this but I wonder how big the community support is ...
 
dualmeister said:
They test bugger all. You fill out an application form and submit all the relevant test reports, photos and diagrams from the manufacturer. Its R4000 per item and R2000 for a variation of that item. A friend of mine once dumped a shipment of bluetooth adapters because it was too much efford and cost to deal with ICASA. ICASA can fine you R250 000 for each item you sell that is not approved.
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Sounds like a typical South African fatcat organization doing nothing.
 
Hemps said:
dug out my old PI, installed openelec and connected ext hdd, thing plays everything even Avatar 55GB copy.
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Cool. Even single core does great work on Openlec. The new AML SDK was released 2 days ago so more good things to come from rom developers on S802, S805, S812 etc
 
JvanD said:
Did anyone see this based on RK3188? I almost died laughing at this rebranding attempt.

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/gadge...frontrow-with-sas-mediabox-pricing-specs.html
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30 days left to go and they only raised 3% of their capital.
Doomed from the start.
I also think the names they use for the company and boxes are copyrighted.
Even if they managed to get the funding, it's the after-sales support that would have buried them.
South African's are too cash strapped and expensive internet on top of this is not going to work out well.
In the UK many people happily pay 100-150 Pounds for these old boxes for convenience if they are already set-up.
They have more money, cheap internet and several online services.
 
@xbmcfan MBX is the common abbreviation of these types of SOC's. They are ranting about designing this whole solution ... what have they designed? Even the name seems stolen, this is just rebranding as China did most of the work already. The cover art for their project was probably designed by them and no I don’t like an orange LED in my living room as it distracts my viewing and would mess with my TV calibration.

Requesting sales and engineering departments in China to include a 3G/HSDPA dongle on a PCB is hardly design.
I do these types of things for kicks.

And why come in and old RK3188 chipset and an old Android operating system …
 
JvanD said:
I doubt if MinixSA has ICASA approval, same applies for all of the BidorBuy sellers and a few of the PC suppliers as mentioned. This whole crap shoot started with an idiot who said that you can watch DSTV for free without a valid DSTV subscription. This is of course a load of bulls....

This is sour grapes IMHO from a competitor. When someone loves what they do, there is no other outcome other than to be successfull. AVSupply renders awesome support. He is really respected in the rom community and has seen a lot of praise even on FreakTab from other legendary firmware creators.

AVSupply will bounce back
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Frikkin @$$holes - if you can't compete, then play dirty. Hope they get flushed away like the turds they are:mad:
AVsupply is brilliant at what they do, clearly Jacques loves what he does. The service just blew my mind. Long may they continue.
Je suis AVsupply;)
 
So...
The MELE F10 remote.
Anything along that line , but with backlit keys. (Looked at the iPazzPort Air Fly Mouse Series) Anyone have experience with it?
Anything better out there?
 
raind33r said:
So...
The MELE F10 remote.
Anything along that line , but with backlit keys. (Looked at the iPazzPort Air Fly Mouse Series) Anyone have experience with it?
Anything better out there?
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I used to but its not without it short commings and damn expensive ...

@raind33r Which remote do you currently have?
 
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I finally rage-quit on my DroidTV over the weekend.
When it works, it works great... fast, responsive, good feature set, acceptable picture quality, cool apps... BUT all the bitty little stupid issues were just starting to add up: endless audio problems (reported a few times in this thread), inability to run Kodi 14 without video bugging out, horrible wi-fi/ethernet connectivity... In themselves they're pretty minor but having to restart your movie because audio suddenly becomes garbled (even if it only takes 10s to do) just destroys the enjoyment for me.

So, my Plan B (there is no C or D) is to go with an Intel NUC running Kodi (or maybe OpenElec). I've ordered the i5 version, 4GB RAM with a 60GB SSD. It should be with me in the next day or so. If that doesn't give the seamless, perfect and totally awesome media-player experience I dream of, I don't know what else to try :)

Anyways, a big thank you to everyone on this thread who has provided help and assistance over the past few months.

I'll report back on my findings soon...
 
HorusZA said:
I finally rage-quit on my DroidTV over the weekend.
When it works, it works great... fast, responsive, good feature set, acceptable picture quality, cool apps... BUT all the bitty little stupid issues were just starting to add up: endless audio problems (reported a few times in this thread), inability to run Kodi 14 without video bugging out, horrible wi-fi/ethernet connectivity... In themselves they're pretty minor but having to restart your movie because audio suddenly becomes garbled (even if it only takes 10s to do) just destroys the enjoyment for me.

So, my Plan B (there is no C or D) is to go with an Intel NUC running Kodi (or maybe OpenElec). I've ordered the i5 version, 4GB RAM with a 60GB SSD. It should be with me in the next day or so. If that doesn't give the seamless, perfect and totally awesome media-player experience I dream of, I don't know what else to try :)

Anyways, a big thank you to everyone on this thread who has provided help and assistance over the past few months.

I'll report back on my findings soon...
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Why didn't you try a PI 2, how much is the new device?
 
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