[Tinwarble]

I doubt it will work for the Shield as USB Tuner support has yet to be added. The only way currently to use USB tuners is to root & flash a modified kernel. https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic...7/#5115617

[awp0]

I've given up on the Mi Box. I've had the thing for 7 or 8 months and I'm tired of waiting for fixes to the refresh rate and MPE2 issues, and a total lack of communication from Xiaomi.

I bought a Shield TV and so far it's pretty solid for my needs. Given the price it's not a viable solution for everyone, but for me it's great.

[RockerC]

Apparently this works for ATSC TV - Mi Boxes and nVIDIA Shields:

ANDROIDTV LEANBACK FREE Live TV USB TUNER for Nvidia Shield, Xiaomi MiBox, Nexus

You can not buy just any old USB tv-tuners just yet with the original firmware, as for that you probably have to wait for Android TV 8.0

Android TV 7.0 does have native support for a three specific USB TV-tuners which work with Google's Live Channels app.

https://androidtv.news/2016/10/live-chan...abilities/

https://androidtv.news/2016/11/hands-usb...-channels/

This includes DVR recoding using Google's Live Channels app

https://androidtv.news/2016/10/first-loo...-channels/

USB TV-tuners with with Nexus Player and I guess in the Mi Box too, but Nvidia Shield TV have specifically disabled this in Shield Experience 5.0 firmware, so there you need a third-party firmware

https://androidtv.news/2017/02/unofficia...sb-tuners/

The only way currently to use USB tuners is to root & flash a modified kernel.

While that might currently be correct for Shield, it is wrong information for Android TV 7.0+ in general.

As you ca read above, Google have some native support for USB TV-tuners to Android TV 7.0, and surley more will will be announced next week at Google I/O for Android TV 8.0

[lama0900]

I doubt it will work for the Shield as USB Tuner support has yet to be added. The only way currently to use USB tuners is to root & flash a modified kernel. https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic...7/#5115617

Some more off-topic to this thread:
No need to have root.
Addition: does not work with shield 2017 (16G) version

[fab4272]

I've given up on the Mi Box. I've had the thing for 7 or 8 months and I'm tired of waiting for fixes to the refresh rate and MPE2 issues, and a total lack of communication from Xiaomi.

I bought a Shield TV and so far it's pretty solid for my needs. Given the price it's not a viable solution for everyone, but for me it's great.

I'm about there myself.

[jambam]

Z a

Sent from my E6633

[Tinwarble]

While that might currently be correct for Shield, it is wrong information for Android TV 7.0+ in general.

As you ca read above, Google have some native support for USB TV-tuners to Android TV 7.0, and surley more will will be announced next week at Google I/O for Android TV 8.0

It's not a matter of it being disabled on the Shield, there are just no USB tuner drivers included. Not to mention that my comment was not a general statement about Android 7, it was specific to the Shield. However, just because a device is running Android 7 doesn't mean that it will include the necessary drivers for tuners.

Some more off-topic to this thread:
No need to have root.
Addition: does not work with shield 2017 (16G) version

Yes, don't know why I said root (other than lack of sleep), meant unlock the bootloader.
There is a 2017 boot_img, I'm assuming it's​ for 16Gb model (since there is no 2017 Pro) here
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic...hannels/1/ and others have stated it works for them.

[lama0900]

While that might currently be correct for Shield, it is wrong information for Android TV 7.0+ in general.

As you ca read above, Google have some native support for USB TV-tuners to Android TV 7.0, and surley more will will be announced next week at Google I/O for Android TV 8.0

It's not a matter of it being disabled on the Shield, there are just no USB tuner drivers included. Not to mention that my comment was not a general statement about Android 7, it was specific to the Shield. However, just because a device is running Android 7 doesn't mean that it will include the necessary drivers for tuners.

Some more off-topic to this thread:
No need to have root.
Addition: does not work with shield 2017 (16G) version

Yes, don't know why I said root (other than lack of sleep), meant unlock the bootloader.
There is a 2017 boot_img, I'm assuming it's​ for 16Gb model (since there is no 2017 Pro) here
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic...hannels/1/ and others have stated it works for them.

So I tried the 2017 boot.img from Lexyan and didn't get behind the "Your device is corrupt"-Screen. Only got a grey screen.
The boot.img from Linux4all doesn't help since there are only few dvb drivers included.
Lexyan had drivers from media_build included. That would enable a huge amount of USB Tuners (dvb-s2 in my case).

[Tinwarble]

Yeah, I don't want to go off topic more than it already has. If you want to discuss USB tuners on the Shield then we can take it over to the Shield thread. My only point was that the tuner that wrxtasy linked probably wouldn't work on the Shield (at least not without some hacking) because the Shield doesn't have the capability of using tuners yet.

[csgabe]

Hey, let's turn this into a Shield thread.
I will continue. The Shield is great, so go ahead and buy it & for extra 50 bucks you can buy an atsc tuner that works in USA, Canada and Mexico.
When will the Shield get Android TV 8.0?
The Shield is the only one which can stream games up to 4K:
https://shield.nvidia.com/blog/stream-4k...-on-shield
Woohoo!

[Tinwarble]

When will the Shield get Android TV 8.0?

I don't know, but it probably won't be before Google announces it, but probably before any other (non-Google) Android TV device.

[insync44]

My Mi box is randomly ejecting my attached 3TB USB HD (portable and non powered). Tried a powered USB Hub. Same problem. Only other way would be a powered 3GB HD, but I don't want to spend the money unless I'm sure it will not have the same problem.

Any use a portable hard drive that randomly disconnects?

[Tinwarble]

My Mi box is randomly ejecting my attached 3TB USB HD (portable and non powered). Tried a powered USB Hub. Same problem. Only other way would be a powered 3GB HD, but I don't want to spend the money unless I'm sure it will not have the same problem.

Any use a portable hard drive that randomly disconnects?

Wild guess, but do you have ES File Explorer installed?

[insync44]

No, I use X-Plore.I read about ES File Explorer and its bad rep. The funny thing is my 64GB, additional storage, USB drive formatted never has a problem. Maybe I should restore to factory specs and start again but I have all configured to my like that I hate starting again.

[wrxtasy]

Kodi v18 Alpha & PVR's - deinterlacing

I've been testing a nightly Alpha version of Kodi v18 Leia - this has now fixed Kodi PVR's and deinterlacing:
http://mirrors.kodi.tv/nightlies/android/arm/master/

TIP: Use the X-Plore File manager to backup (copy - long press OK button) your existing Kodi v17 Krypton folder first, found at:

Internal Shared Storage > Android > org.xbmc.kodi

Kodi's- Sync Playback to Display should be turned off and a matching Android System resolution selected first if you want smooth TV video playback.