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Matt Zerella posted:That last part is my exact setup. I refuse to use ARC since I paid for a nice receiver. I'll just live with it and my wife likes the harmony remote. ARC is useful if you have anything running on the TV directly (like an app, or something going into another input). It’s good when CEC doesn’t work from the word go though, as it means you won’t get the frustration when it stops working for no apparent reason.
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EL BROMANCE posted:ARC is useful if you have anything running on the TV directly (like an app, or something going into another input). The x810c has android and it's slow and lovely so yeah, no direct use of apps. And I have the hub so CEC isn't an issue. I'm just spoiled by the bedroom tv turning off and on from holding the TV button. It's not that big of a deal, just kind of annoying.
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I have an 810c and CEC works fine with my AppleTV and Onkyo.
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jokes posted:If you hated the remote like I did: I tried this last year, and for some reason (which I can't remember, but maybe the TV doesn't use IR?) I couldn't get this to work with my TV. So double check if you have a newer TV. The Samsung smart remote that comes with the TV does control AppleTV. Still I don't use it, because it gets confused (or I do) if the button I am pushing is for the TV or AppleTV. Also the AppleTV remote does work great with my TV. The receiver and TV both come on when I hit any button to wake the AppleTV. The only real bitch is when I am on another input and I dumbly use the AppleTV remote to change the volume, which causes the input to switch back to AppleTV. nate fisher fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Oct 22, 2018 |
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Having an issue with PSVue on the 4k AppleTV, wondering if someone can help narrow it down to device, setup, app, ISP, whatever. Watching something DVR'd in the app is close to nonfunctional if I'm trying to skip commercials as an example. I'll get desynced audio/video, video running at 3x speed for a minute or two, double audio (from different times, but overlaid), and maybe 5% of the time on a "skip forward 10 seconds" command the stream will just skip to a random point in the broadcast (usually the same point, last night it was like 4 minutes from the start of the stream...from anywhere in the stream). This is after I've jumped through the hoops of how the Siri remote trackpad interacts with the app, which seems laggy as hell and often inputs are recognized as two different types. For instance, click on the right of the trackpad is supposed to skip forward 10 seconds...half the time that's detected as a click the right edge AND click in the center, which brings up another function in PSVue which is "GO TO LAST CHANNEL" and a second trackpad center click goes to that channel. So between the lag and the garbage input detection, clicking 10-12 times to skip a commercial break is sort of russian roulette where maybe clicks 5 and 6 get detected as center clicks rather than edge clicks and whoops you're on some other channel now. I've fixed the remote issue by using the Apple TV remote app on the phone, which has dedicated +10s / -10s buttons, but the streaming behavior is the same, so I know it's not limited to me fat fingering the remote. Anyhow, all we watch on the PSVue are sports and it's making it almost non-functional to watch football or the goddamn world series so before I hop on the "call VUE, get directed to Apple, get directed to FIOS" train figured I'd see if people have had this problem or if there's a good way to isolate this.
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It may just be a bug with the current version of the app. I assume you’ve already tried deleting and re-downloading the app. Might just have to wait for a new version to fix the bugs.
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It’s the app. If there is an issue it’s almost always the app. I had terrible luck with PSView and moved on to DTVnow which seems to work “better”
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An update for Vue just dropped today so update to that and see if it fixed it.
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 TV OS 12.1 is out! Apple posted:This update includes general performance and stability improvements.
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Binary Badger posted:
Ah, the Sony approach to update descriptions.
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My ATV seems to hate going to sleep. About every time i put it to sleep, it wakes up few seconds later and also wakes up the tv. I googled the issue and have shut down airplay, app updates etc but it keeps doing it. I’m getting pretty close to disabling CEC to get rid of this. Today it did this three times before the tv stayed off.
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OBR posted:My ATV seems to hate going to sleep. About every time i put it to sleep, it wakes up few seconds later and also wakes up the tv. I googled the issue and have shut down airplay, app updates etc but it keeps doing it. I’m getting pretty close to disabling CEC to get rid of this. Today it did this three times before the tv stayed off. Yeah, CEC has been at times extremely underwhelming or unworkable for me. I got it to mostly work right then I discovered my TV was only passing 2CH audio via ARC to my Dennon. I finally gave up, re-routed the HDMI cables and just use my Harmony Hub.
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OBR posted:My ATV seems to hate going to sleep. About every time i put it to sleep, it wakes up few seconds later and also wakes up the tv. I googled the issue and have shut down airplay, app updates etc but it keeps doing it. I’m getting pretty close to disabling CEC to get rid of this. Today it did this three times before the tv stayed off. My ATV has been buggy lately too. It used to go to sleep immediately (the white LED light turned off immediately) when I told it to sleep. Now it turns the TV off, but the white LED stays on for hours. It's kind of annoying, but not annoying as the ATV randomly deciding to quit to the home screen every now and then. I'm not talking about the thing where it asks if I'm still watching. I'll be watching something and then without warning the ATV quits the app, goes to the home screen, and shows a notification saying "the remote has connected" or something like that. It does this randomly and no I'm not touching the remote at all, it's sitting on the coffee table and I don't have a cat or anything that would play with it either. I haven't changed any settings except letting the ATV autoupdate.
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I want to mirror an iPad to an Apple TV. Does it absolutely need to be on the same wifi network or can it mirror over Bluetooth or something?
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Bluetooth doesn’t have anywhere near enough bandwidth to stream video.
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Right, okay. Some Googling suggests it could work via peer-to-peer wifi or something? And it establishes the initial connection via Bluetooth?
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It would be much easier to just try it no? Get your iPad or phone and disconnect from WiFi. See if you can still AirPlay.
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I'm pretty sure you can. I've had people in neighboring apartments try to connect to my Apple TV and they definitely haven't been on my WiFi.
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Yeah for some reason I remember that being a feature added in an tvOS release a year or two ago.
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Mahoning posted:Yeah for some reason I remember that being a feature added in an tvOS release a year or two ago. Yeah, here we go, iOS 8: https://www.cultofmac.com/282209/airplay-longer-requires-wi-fi-network-ios-8/ It's wifi-based but not reliant on the devices being on the same network. I guess it's point to point or creates an ad hoc network? Who knows.
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I’ve tried and couldn’t get it to work. I think the Apple TV needs to initially sign in with an Apple ID before it will work but it doesn’t have internet access at the moment.
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bigis posted:I’ve tried and couldn’t get it to work. I think the Apple TV needs to initially sign in with an Apple ID before it will work but it doesn’t have internet access at the moment. Use a mobile hotspot to get it internet?
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I recently bought my parents one of the $149 refurb ATV 4K's (after getting one myself last month) and my only gripe is the single siri remote support. Fortunately, the old silver remotes still work perfectly (except volume of course) and you can pair a bunch of them to these new units. I also gave up on CEC as well, as the ATV would never turn off and I didn't really care for it anyway. I also made the suggested settings here and everything is working great. The volume on the siri remote also worked perfectly with my Yamaha RX-V479 receiver right out of the box with no pairing even necessary.
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I have that same receiver. Love it and CEC works like 90%. Whenever I start watching something, 10 secs later the audio input will change to something else, while the video input stays the same. I have to hit the menu button on the ATV remote before it kicks the audio back to ATV. It’s super loving weird.
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I think I worked it out, that ancient Apple TV needs to be upgraded from iOS 7 to at least iOS 8. It’s a bit tricky because I don’t have physical access and it’s plugged in via Ethernet (with no internet access) so I can’t hotspot it. Tricky but I’ll work it out.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:I have that same receiver. Love it and CEC works like 90%. Whenever I start watching something, 10 secs later the audio input will change to something else, while the video input stays the same. I have to hit the menu button on the ATV remote before it kicks the audio back to ATV. It’s super loving weird. I don't have that issue (yet). This is more for the AVS thread but it's ATV related anyway - I decided to experiment some more this weekend. After hooking up all the HDMI inputs to the Sony 55" 2016 930D instead of the RX-V479 (since it wasn't passing through the HDR anyway) and playing around again with the Bravia Sync on the TV , I get full functionality and if I use an HDMI cable back to the ARC (using AV4) on the Yamaha 479 instead of an Optical audio cable, I get better audio quality. This ONLY works if you have the Bravia Sync activated (MEH), and of course, the ATV won't go to sleep again (set at 15 min otherwise) unless you force it to. I can't tell if it's the TV or the 479's fault but I do notice that the TV and Receiver both "wake up" every hour or so despite all the settings I can find telling it not to. Based on that (and some other Yamaha 479 annoyances) I'm probably gonna dump it and get a Sony STRDN1080 ($600) next year and upgrade to 7.2 and hope it gets along better with the TV, which of course it won't and then I'll be annoyed some more and..........  I love the ATV 4k though and may pick up yet another $149 refurb for the bedroom tv still using a "crusty old and slow" ATV 3. Keyser_Soze fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Nov 12, 2018 |
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Rumor is the Charter Spectrum TV app and the Zero Sign-on is launching early next month. I'm excited to try their app on Apple TV. Their iPhone/Pad app works better for me than my old DVR. https://9to5mac.com/2018/11/24/zero-sign-on-release-date/
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The Kimoa Kid posted:I'm pretty sure you can. I've had people in neighboring apartments try to connect to my Apple TV and they definitely haven't been on my WiFi. I have a guest network that people who visit use. They are able to connect to the Apple TV and mirror despite not being on the same network as the AppleTV.
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Visited a friend yesterday and the neighbour apparently had an Apple TV that they searched a lot on. Every time they did a search I got a popup on my iphone to type in the search. Isn't that a bit strange? I wasn't connected to a network and I definitely haven't been connected to that Apple TV before.
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Isn’t the initial connection to the Apple TV done via Bluetooth, then an adhoc WiFi connection is established when you stream something.
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Xabi posted:Visited a friend yesterday and the neighbour apparently had an Apple TV that they searched a lot on. Every time they did a search I got a popup on my iphone to type in the search. Isn't that a bit strange? I wasn't connected to a network and I definitely haven't been connected to that Apple TV before. And you didn't start typing some crazy poo poo into your phone every time it came up?
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I made a huge mistake.
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Zero One posted:Rumor is the Charter Spectrum TV app and the Zero Sign-on is launching early next month. I'm excited to try their app on Apple TV. Their iPhone/Pad app works better for me than my old DVR. According to a now-deleted reddit post that the user was allegedly fired for, their Apple TV app will finally launch on December 10.
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Infuse has its own video playback engine yeah? Every so often I get a 4K file that ATV Plex just can’t process (seems to just want to skim across the timeline, I’ve tested the files in other plex clients and it works ok) so wondering if I stump up the cash for infuse if it’ll solve those issues.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Infuse has its own video playback engine yeah? Every so often I get a 4K file that ATV Plex just can’t process (seems to just want to skim across the timeline, I’ve tested the files in other plex clients and it works ok) so wondering if I stump up the cash for infuse if it’ll solve those issues. Yep, just be aware that a new major version is right around the corner ("early next year"), which will be a separate purchase if you bought Pro 5 outright. Consider doing a month or whatever in the IAP version for (I think) $1 to see if it works for you, or you can try it without paying with reduced codec support.
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Infuse is great. I wanted to watch SMB shares on my Apple TV but VLC only works with SMB1 right now which got deactivated on Windows 10 for security reasons. So for now I’m paying 99cents a month for infuse until the VLC team gets their poo poo together and supports SMB2/3.
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Yeah I use VLC to connect to my Mac and it’s so slow and bad, half the time it won’t bring up file listings and just spins out forever. astral posted:Yep, just be aware that a new major version is right around the corner ("early next year"), which will be a separate purchase if you bought Pro 5 outright. Consider doing a month or whatever in the IAP version for (I think) $1 to see if it works for you, or you can try it without paying with reduced codec support. Thanks that $1 option is probably the way to go for now, it doesn’t happen often but bugged me today.
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I want to watch movies and view pictures and gifs I have on a hard drive. The HDD is connected to my PC by USB. What is the best way to watch your own movies AND see pictures on an AppleTV nowadays? I currently have my PC sharing the HDD over my network via SMB which is accessed via Infuse on my devices-- didn't need Pro. It works but it's pretty jank and you can't see pictures. I was thinking it would be a good idea to shove all my poo poo into a cloud storage option somehow, but since some of the things on there are homemade porn I'd be violating various TOS rules, even if they go unenforced.
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jokes posted:I want to watch movies and view pictures and gifs I have on a hard drive. The HDD is connected to my PC by USB. Plex.
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