Can You Download More Apps On Sony Bravia __HOT__
Galina Thurby
I haven't been on here in a long while. I barely touch my hubitat anymore as im busy with my software engineering job and have grown my family since I wrote these drivers. I have picked up some blue collar hobbies and don't look at a computer much after work. I haven't had performance problems with the driver, but at the time I wrote this, hubitat didn't have a great way to track apps or device specific loads either. At one point, I was developing two Sony drivers, one for audio and one for tvs and they had a lot of overlap. Many of the features I included were just to work with either for future merging.. l also found that the API was changing over time for different new tvs, sound bars, or receivers wihout updating the older tv's. I have seen a lot of action on this thread (through the emails), but just don't have the time for debugging and working through a lot of "user" issues. If you do. A pull request on my git repo, I can review it so people can auto update their apps.
Having problems with the mini universal apps for the newest Sony tv series. (AG9)
When i choose a mini driver, the tv switches to the selected source (eg. netflix/amazon video) but the remote is ignoring any further input. Volume control is still working on the tv, but it seams that the driver did not understand that he still needs to control the sony tv as endpoint in the mini driver mode.
I need to switch back to the "sony tv" as source and the remote is working again.
i can debug the driver but the keypress is not visible in the log.
is there anyway to tell the minidriver that he needs so use the tv as a endpoint for the remote controls?
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I brought a Sony Bravia KDL-42W809A back in 2013/14(?). Thinking the smart tv would have loads of feature apps added to sony entertainment network (SEN), aka the likes of 4oD and ITV player etc. Yet looking through the crap on SEN its full of useless apps with no way to install more. Only good ones are youtube and netflix.
It seems to me that all Sony want is for comsumers that have paid out 's for a smart tv to be left with crap content apps a year of so later, with no upgrades, with no option to add more apps too. Where is the 4oD and ITV player etc that was promised when i brought my model?
FYI, i paid out big for sonys bravia, because of the screen quality/colours and promise of more on demand apps. Now it seems to me that i could buy a non smart tv and add chromecast for 30! and it'll beat this Bravia by miles on content.
I have TV 42w805a and after few updates I have no recording on hdd. Sony promised , customer bought and after Sony does not do anything to support its products. I have four products of sony but I promised myself- sony never again. Today only money is more important than customer and its satisfaction.
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Hi,
I haven't posted to this forum before, so I apologize if I make any mistakes in posting or this question has been answered before somewhere (in which case, please point me to the thread, thanks).
I'd like to know if there are any drawbacks/regressions (particularly in the interface or compatibility) with the newer roku's.
To clarify, I currently have a roku 2XD and am really happy with it. I want a second one for another room and I'd be getting a newer model. However, I've unfortunately had to become VERY careful to research newer products and software versions before going ahead with them because all too often they have bad designs or surprising regressions from older products, particularly in the UI; I've been very unhappy with some previous purchases that had such problems (a Sony blu ray player that shuts itself off and forgets where you are if you pause more than a very few minutes, with no way to configure not doing so; newer "upgraded" (more like "downgraded") software versions with slow, bloated, ugly interfaces; even a microwave that beeps until you take the food out and has other weird intentional design annoyances; etc.). So I want to be very careful to avoid that sort of bad design stuff. To that end, I want to find out what is different in the newer models vs. my 2XD that I'm very happy with, particularly in incompatibilities with my TV or network router, software ("apps" or whatever) compatibility issues, and UI "improvements" that may actually be more like regressions.
So my specific questions:
- Are there any differences in the compatibility or UI of the newer ones that are potentially problems? I know this is a very broad question and a matter of opinion, but if anything is somewhat obvious, please let me know.
- My TV is a bit older, a Samsung that is around I think 2009 or so. It takes whatever the HDMI standard was at that time (I have no idea if that is still the same standard or has changed). Do the newer roku's support that?
- I have a router that uses the older wifi, 2.4GHz (because I have some older devices to support). Do the newer roku's support that?
- Are there compatibility problems or restrictions with any of the software programs? ("apps" or whatever they are being called) I am getting this largely to allow using software that Sony refuses to include on their blu ray/streaming combination player (plus the Amazon video software no longer works well on that machine). That same software works on my existing roku 2XD. So if there are compatibility problems with those, that would be a big problem. In other words, I want to make sure the newer versions have no restrictions on what is working on my 2XD.
- I do not want to have to deal with any additional, unexpected requirements, such as using a computer with a particular OS to set something up, etc.. I know this is unlikely, but I've been encountering such wildly bizarre things on recent products that I have to ask (last year I helped my father try to set up a simple device for measuring walking distance - it wouldn't work because for some absolutely crazy reason he had to plug it into his computer or cell phone and it didn't like his older OS version on either one; he was, quite correctly, very angry and returned it). So is there anything like this?
- If I register a second roku on my account, I assume it won't change anything about my existing one, correct? (try to replace the info about my existing one with the newer model or something of that sort) I do not want for registering a second one to somehow break my existing one; again, I doubt that would happen, but I want to be sure.
Basically, I'm looking for warnings about any problems in the newer versions. Please let me know if there's anything I need to know. If they are great and work better than the older ones, then that's good news and I'll purchase one.
I guess that brings up one more related question: Is there a model that is about the same as the 2XD? In some research a while back, I saw that you can now get a USB stick version of a roku and I seem to recall that it was the best price of the roku's (at least at the time), but I'd be a little worried the USB ports on my older Samsung TV (2009 or so) or Sony blu ray player (2015 or so) wouldn't be compatible. I suppose it would also be nice to keep my options open for a physical ethernet cable (I may eventually run some cables into that room), but if that costs a lot more that isn't a requirement.
Any help would be appreciated - thanks