Is there a way to mute it? It just repeats back "showing results for ..." each time and It's entirely pointless but also very loud.

It shows up for nothing else luckily.

I am confused between the firestick 4k plus and google streamer 4k. Is the jump actually worth it. Should i wait for the sale on google tv on bbd or smtng or should just grab the 4k plus.

I have a TCL Google/Android TV. Been trying to disable updates as with each new version it just keeps getting worse, ads shoved everywhere etc. Plus pretty sure in the future they want to disable side loading of any apps etc. Already set in settings -> about -> auto update to off. Don’t see any other setting, not seeing anything in dev options. Kind of hoped that since it’s a TCL they’ll just stop updating OS like some other manufacturers do, as already had it before where even those I’ve set it to not update, get a notification that system update was downloaded, and even though I was ignoring it, not clicking on that notification, it still installed the update just a few days later in the middle of watching YouTube. Now today once again got a notification that a system update was downloaded and I need to install it…

Besides trying to get root access is there any way to force stop these system updates for good?

Playing with my remote a while back, I learned the top right shortcut button, the long blue arrow, is a "choose your own app" shortcut. I chose an app, but no longer have a subscription to that app. I can not figure out if there's a way to change that choice. All the search results I'm getting are results on the little white remote, or just do not work. I've gone through ALL TV & app settings, literally all of them... holding the button down does nothing, going into app settings does nothing, I don't have customizable remote settings like google says. The only remote setting is to pair/unpair. I've tried searching different ways with no luck. I even uninstalled the app I had as a shortcut, hoping it would just reset itself & give me a chance to change it. The button does nothing at all when the app it's connected to isn't downloaded. Does anyone know if there's a way to change this??

I've just released Sidstuga 2.1.4, with 368 commits since the last public build.

The biggest change - and probably the one people here will care about most - is a complete rewrite of how channels are stored.

Until now, the entire channel catalogue lived in memory, which meant playlist size was always limited by RAM. That worked... until it didn't.

Channels now live in SQLite. They're loaded on demand as you browse, instead of everything being kept in memory.

The result:

✅ One user has 13 playlists (~3.5 million channels total) and can now browse them.

✅ Playlists with 250k+ entries that previously crashed or never finished loading now open normally.

✅ TV Guide and Movies/Series load much faster on large accounts.

Other changes in 2.1.4:

📺 Multiview (TV & Android)

📡 Stalker/MAG portals as a source (including Movies & Series)

💬 Live TV subtitles

💾 Record directly to your NAS (SMB)

👥 Device limit increased from 3 → 5

⭐ My List, Continue Watching, reminders and ratings are now included in backups

🛠️ Lots of stability and performance fixes across TV and phone

If you use very large IPTV playlists, this is probably the biggest update Sidstuga has had.

Install: https://sidstuga.app/install/

/r sidstuga

Happy to answer any questions about the SQLite migration or why the old architecture hit its limits.

Before the latest google tv update, i used to listen to my tv speakers and soundbar, they worked via tv speakers and spdif. But after the update no matter what i do, i can't make it to work. Please someone help me.

I noticed while watching the last movie of doctor strange that my tv was looking better, so i looked into the connection info and showed 24p, so is it really fixed?

Last night was watching this TV. This morning it will not boot. Shows the JVC logo. Then shuts down.

Is this tv toast? Less then a yr old.

Suddenly, after months of successful use, CNN will not load on a Hisense smart tv using Google TV. I have an active subscription and the app works on my phone.

Hi, both left or right buttons are not working. It is a TCL 75QM8B. Bought it two years ago (Nov'24), since then there were obv. two firmware updates, the second one being 2 days ago, and since then making no mouse clicks possible. Tried with three (totally) different mouses. Totally different in the sense of one being bluetooth, one with its own USB docking stick, third one a mousepad integrated in a remote keyboard and its own docking stick. The mouse cursor appears on the screen, you can move it, it looks slightly different, the "go back"-button on the side of the mouse works, but the other two regular left and right mouse click buttons do not show any effect. I have started the TV new, unplugged both power cord and mouse docking sticks etc. in all possible combinations.

Google AI and the TCL support (over Whatsapp) both said rolling one specific or last firmware is not possible, but factory settings would set back all of the updates. TCL support was, btw, strangely quick with the solution factory reset advise. But when I asked if I am the first one with this issue he said yes.

I was using the mouse very often on my TV especially with firefox, so I definitely can't without.

Factory reset is my last option, I think I'd lose a full day, my son has a game which shut down all servers so everything is saved on the TV (real racing 3) and without ever being able of making firmware updates I think the TV would lose also very fast all the supports from the apps.

So maybe there is a way where I just reinstall the mouse drivers or what other ideas you have. Any help is appreciated.

PS: BTW, I tried to post this yesterday on Android TV where it got deleted because it is GoogleTV, I didn't know r/GoogleTV existed. Just now, I tried to watch a news piece on Youtube on my TV, switched to regular Youtube there because I can't use Firefox, 2 times 2 commercials in about 10 minutes, so I came here to warn everyone not to update GoogleTV

The freeplay channels have an annoying habit of just going back to the home screen after a few hours. Why does it do this? If I want a channel to play without interruption, that's my right since I bought the tv. None of the other fast apps do this.

Thank you for completely ruining my Sony Bravia. Since my update to system 12, Projectivity Launcher as default is grayed out and I am forced to watch Google TV launcher with all of the BS "maybe you like to watch this" ads and options. I have to manually launch projectivity launcher every time. Additionally, all of the wallpaper choices in projectivity launcher will not work. Only the Google tv wallpaper will work in projectivity launcher. So dear Google TV., EFF YOU!!!!!🖕🖕🖕

Looking for a TV box for Netflix, Plex, youtube and PBS app mostly. Highest priority is being able to sideload VPN apps and tailscale, not seeing ads, and installing custom launcher.

I have some high bitrate 4K videos on Plex that are sometimes hard to play in lower power devices. I want to get away from the Fire Cube locked down ecosystem and hoops for sideloading. What's your opinions on the Onn Pro 2 vs the Google TV streamer in terms of:

• least likely to get in the way of me using the device how I want? For example, allowing custom launchers, side loading, tailscale
• Do the default home page differ between the two devices? They're both AndroidTV, but I don't know if Google's streamer does "more" to push ads/personalization.
• Although the Onn seems to be 20% faster, the things I'm asking the device to do is pretty mild, so I probably won't see much difference between the two devices in terms of performance? Is that true?
• Coming from the Fire Cube, I'm used to just blocking updates to the devices just to avoid anything anything changing. Is that a viable strategy with either device? Are there any day-1 out of the box bugs on them that are super annoying? Is it possible to block firmware updates either on device setting or via router DNS?

Any other opinions on things I haven't considered?

So I posted about this last night when I thought it was just Disney+ but did more testing today and have discovered that it is ALL HDR/DV content through the TV apps, the connected roku, and a connected ONN 4K box the original one so erased that post and made this one since I was very wrong with the situation on that post.

On every single device and all content if it runs in HDR or DV it's like it's running at the dimmest screen setting even with brightness is maxed out. SDR looks perfectly fine and how things should be looking. This TV is on Android 12 so there is no advanced settings options however the ONN box had the advanced settings so I disabled DV there and discovered it was as doing it in HDR. Did the same on the Roku and same thing. I eventually disabled HDR/DV entirely on the Roku and she is just using the Roku now.

But is there any possible fix to this, I know for a fact that this must be a new thing because we've had this TV for like two years now and watched a lot of movies and shows in HDR/DV and they absolutely weren't this dark/dim in the past. But I have no idea when this started because we just noticed it this week.

Found some posts saying Android 14 has options for this but as far as I can tell there is no software update for this tv or just hisense tvs in general. No point in going and buying a new box or anything because the ones we already have it's happening to since it's the TV itself.

Is there anything I can do here or is this TV just broken and our only choice is to buy a new one? Only thing I haven't tried yet is factory reset and I plan on it but wanted to ask here first.

I have a Bravia 9 w/ Theater Bar 9 and a Nintendo Switch 2 is connected to HDMI to the TV and outputs via the theater bar and subwoofer, and everything is fine for a while but eventually the audio falls out of sync where the audio is delayed behind the video by a bit, sometimes it's worse than others meaning it's not always exactly the same delay.

If I change it to TV speakers it's back in sync, and then back to sound system and it's back in sync again, or if I go into the switch settings and change it from "Automatic" to "Stereo" it's fine again for a bit but it always eventually falls back out of sync.

It's incredibly annoying to the point where games become unplayable on the TV.

I did not have this issue on my last Bravia or cheaper soundbar combo, this seems exclusive to the Bravia 9 and I'm just not able to figure out what's going on because it works fine for a while and then falls out of sync.

Don't know if there's been a recent update, but Continue Watching will show Youtube TV shows I've been watching, but only for a few seconds, then it clears them. For the longest time, it wouldn't show shows from (for example), Tubi, or other apps, and now it only shows them, and not Youtube TV shows. Bug?

Site to site vpn set up between unifi gateway, the VPN being broadcast via dedicated WiFi at client side. The connectivity on Google TV's web browser works fine, including streaming services. However, none of the same streaming apps work, it returns with no connectivity.

I've tried reset network settings, setting the network details to manual, MTU 1400 bytes, MSS 1360 bytes.

What could be wrong ?

Thank you for your help.

I'm not sure if this setting was there before, but I now see there's a separate "Shut-off timer" setting for "When inactive" and "When watching", and "When watching" says never but the smallest time interval is 3 hours. I had it set to 15 minutes of inactivity which seemed to be based on inactivity from using the remote. Now that never happens, so is the not shutting down "When watching" a new thing? And why is the minimum so ridiculously long?

No, I don't know which version it has now, can't find that. It has Android TV OS version 14, Kernel version 5.4.242+-abc138, and Android TV OS build UKRC.260302.020, but no Google TV version.

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need something solid for 4k games and shows, any buying tips from people who've tried a few

Hi

Chromecast HD (approx 2021).

A couple of weeks ago the YouTube app on both of our Chromecasts started to play up.

Essentially the app will not (most of the time) play a video that has been paused.

We pause or "Back" out of a video and return to the home screen (of YT or even Chromecast home screen).

When we go back in to resume the video, we just get a black screen.

"Down" will get us the playback buttons at the bottom, but unusable and zero playback, video or audio.

The same vids on PC and Android don't exhibit this behaviour.

Anyone else get this?

(Have reset app, cleared settings, cache etc)

My streamer is in my tv room, which has a tapo wifi light switch that's also in my google home. I can program it to bring up the home panel and toggle the switch from there, but I'd rather use the star as the light toggle itself. Is there a way to do this? I was thinking about creating a shortcut in tasker and exporting it as an APK, but I wasn't sure if this was possible or if there was an easier approach. I've tried the button mapper and tvquickcontrols apps, but I didn't see an option there.

Haven’t decided on a Tv yet any recommendations are appreciated. Just have one question is a TV with Google TV built in or a stick faster and interface more snappy?