so after my first post about the initial feel for the box on the first night, just a quick heads up of the little I spent with the box so far almost 48 hours later.
- no cec capibilities on Android tv 6 so get ready to use more than one remote if you insist on using the original remote for voice commands. I can turn the volume up on my avr and then use the mibox remote to control the volume that way but only on certain apps which only support stereo. As soon as a digital audio format gets detected (like in netflix) the box hands over volume capabilities to the avr. Trust me I found this out the hard way late last night when my avr was turned up high and the avr remote was on the table. Sound came through full blast and there was no way of controlling it from the mibox remote. I turned into Jackie Chan for a minute there trying to jump for the avr remote. This was 1:30 in the morning.
I can weirdly get the box to switch on my avr and tv by pressing the “home” button 3 times, not the power button which will only switch on the box itself. Powering down only puts the box in sleep mode and tv and avr will stay on. Bit frustrating for me at moment.
I can obviously control the box with my lg smart tv remote but then I loose voice control.
- this brings me to the next point about powering down the device... there is no way. No power definitions in Android tv 6. So you have 2 options. 1: short press power button to put the unit to sleep. 2: long press the power button to restart. No shutdown option except for pulling the plug.
- there is a beta version of android tv 7 floating around that apparently fixes the above but I suggest read up a lot first as it comes with a whole bag of new problems. As I can pick the rumour is that xiaomi decided to skip the 7 update and go straight to 8 but dont take my word for it. There is a video on youtube showing the mibox 3 with android 8 running at the MWC 2018 event.
- the mibox “recommendations” row irritated the crap out of me because it splits your apps into different rows for what reason I do not know but there is a way to turn it off by going to “settings” then “apps” then “system apps” then “xiaomileanbackcutomizer” and then finally “disable”. Then reboot.
- forcing the tv resolution to 4K60 with HDR on makes the interface a bit choppy but I had the same problem with the apple tv 4K.
- then theres the auto refresh rate issue which can be researched.
These are the things I have come across so far but I have not really had time to really test more intensive stuff, just the obvious streaming apps quickly.
Edit:
Make sure to first do the system update under “settings”, “about”, “system update. This fixes a youtube issue. Its about 425mb if I remember correctly.
