

The only downside is that you need a separate app to watch live TV. Plex Pass ( $5 per month, $40 per year, or $150 lifetime): This gives you access to Plex’s DVR service and a bunch of other features. Over-the-air antenna: It can be indoor or outdoor, as long you can wire the coaxial cable to the HDHomeRun. The HDHomeRun tuner connects to an antenna via coaxial cable, and to your home network router over ethernet. (Note: If your router isn’t in a location where your over-the-air antenna can get good reception, this solution won’t work for you.) Jared Newman / IDG


The HDHomeRun Extend ( $179 at Amazon) uses transcoding to reduce the size of streams and recordings.

The HDHomeRun Connect ( $105 at Amazon) requires more bandwidth for streaming, and more storage for recordings. HDHomeRun tuner ($100 to $180): This tuner connects to your router over ethernet, and streams broadcast channels to the Shield. Ideally, the drive should have at least 500GB of storage and a USB 3.0 interface. As a workaround, anyone not yet affected was recommended to turn off automatic updates to keep the problem from spreading to them, but not everyone was so lucky as to catch it in time.USB hard drive: You’ll plug this into the Shield to store recordings, unless you have a Shield Pro. Nvidia Customer HelpĪt that time, and up until now, there has been no official fix for the issue pertaining to people’s Plex media servers though, as they were disappearing entirely…the servers, not the people. If you see permission options to “Allow while using this app” and “Allow all the time”, select “Allow all the time”. To allow file permission manually for these apps go to Settings -> Apps -> -> Permissions and enable “Files and Media” access for the app. Many apps have not yet adopted the new system. I find it interesting that no one saw this coming, and as a result, many smart home owners were left without properly functioning movies and tv show apps without a little elbow grease.Īndroid 11 includes a new permission system to allow file access to apps. Last month, Nvidia Shield TV devices received an update (v9.0) to Android 11, and with it, any app that required storage permissions was broken because with Android 11, you have to enable these per use and per app.
