Android TV boxes

[ILoveControl]

Hi all,

I have some TV's around the house and have these small Android TV Boxes that run Android 7.1 and above on these TV's. Now on my main TV's I have Nvidia Shields and it works perfectly with the IRUSB and the chowmain driver. 

The question is there any drivers to interact / control these cheap Android TV boxes? They all run Android TV.

[Cyknight]

IRUSB is it at this point, should work with any reasonably current Android TV OS (I'm pretty sure my wife/kids threw out my 2 IRSUB i was going to add to my android TVs running 7+ so can't be 100% certain....)

[Amr]

16 hours ago, ILoveControl said:

Hi all,

I have some TV's around the house and have these small Android TV Boxes that run Android 7.1 and above on these TV's. Now on my main TV's I have Nvidia Shields and it works perfectly with the IRUSB and the chowmain driver. 

The question is there any drivers to interact / control these cheap Android TV boxes? They all run Android TV.

Yes, Chowmain have an Android driver but require your Android box to be routed as they are using a LANRemote program to control it via IP, check DriverCentral.IO

[Pounce]

7 hours ago, Amr said:

Yes, Chowmain have an Android driver but require your Android box to be routed as they are using a LANRemote program to control it via IP, check DriverCentral.IO

Typo there. Android boxes need to be rooted. Most of them seem to be rooted. The downside to a rooted Android TV box is that some of the better apps wont run on them.

[Cyknight]

11 hours ago, Amr said:

Yes, Chowmain have an Android driver but require your Android box to be routed as they are using a LANRemote program to control it via IP, check DriverCentral.IO

LanMote has been dead since android 5 I believe

[Amr]

Can I give you my final opinion and experience around this, cheap Android boxes are shit and trash and won’t work, user experience is so bad as you can’t use it normally; at least I couldn’t, it’s like a phones OS flashed for a TV box!

My 2 cents grab a true Android TV box that support Google TV OS like Xiaomi/IRsub!! Period!

[Kenneth_Collins]

I use MAG425A and I have no complaints about its work, although I have been using it for more than six months. And the cost is not great when compared with other STBs