After a short pause in rollout, NVIDIA started re-pushing the Android Oreo update to the NVIDIA SHIELD TV over the weekend. The build is currently only going out to SHIELD TV beta testers, this time as the SHIELD Experience 7.0.1 Preview.
It’s tough to say what was wrong with that original build unless you were a beta tester and picked it up before NVIDIA stopped it. Whatever the issues were, they must have fixed them or there was attempt to. A number of our readers received the preview at the same time yesterday, as did a bunch of users on NVIDIA’s Geforce forums.
We’ll keep an eye on the rollout to non-beta testers.
If you are interested in getting SHIELD TV updates early through this beta program, you can sign-up here.
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Kodi and YTTV are the two apps I use most and neither show up in the channel launcher. Kind of defeats the purpose of the new UI.
I believe Kodi 18 support the channel feature.
I’m still stuck at 6.3 and there’s Android P out soon! Nvidia seems really late getting Android oreo on their shield!
Nvidia addressed this: They didn’t want to update to the new interface when so few apps were supporting the new features. I guess they decided it was time. I’d rather stay with the tried and true UI (and wife approved) than to switch to an entirely new one without a lot of support.
If only u could use sideloaded apps as channels aswell or any app
YoutubeTV needs an update to support the new channels interface of Android TV. When that happens I’ll be ok with the new launcher. Could kinda live without it right now.
So if I do get the update my youtube tv app wont work? Is that correct?
I can’t imagine they’d release an update that breaks YouTube TV. I think they mean that Youtube TV hasn’t been updated to do channels within Android Oreo. So standalone YouTube TV will work as usual, we just won’t get the enhanced channel behavior that comes with Oreo (and that we don’t currently have anyway of course).
Youtube TV works for me (got this update last night). So far no issues.
No YTTV support=deal breaker for me
Huh? They were one of the first to get youtube TV.
My understanding is that YTTV will work as it does today, we just won’t get all that Oreo has to offer (the channels feature) until they update the YouTube TV app to leverage it. But I’m not in the beta so I’m just going by what I’ve read as this whole situation has gone on for what seems like forever.
YTTV works great on my shield.
I like it for the most part except the terrible support for the channels feature. If implemented right this could be a good solution for cord cutters getting their streaming content all in one place, like I could put all my favorite live TV channels in one row, all my YouTube TV channels in another row, have another row for my latest plex DVR recording’s, and another row for my digital movie collection. But it doesn’t work that way because if the developer even supports it, they are just going with recommended and trending crap. Like why would i even want to enable a play movies channel that only shows me the most popular movies and prices? Who would actually want to enable ads I mean really. Oh and YouTube TV doesn’t even support it. Side note Nvidia ditched their custom shortcuts to their accessories and the restart/sleep menu which I’m not crazy about.
seriously, how can Google expect devs to add support for Channels when they refuse to do it with their own apps. There is NO reason why Youtube TV isn’t supporting this yet, but it for what ever reason it doesn’t.
Yeah I agree, and the apps that do support it are half assed and just show trending channels. For regular YouTube, a subscription channel would be useful that only showed the latest updates from your subscriptions but instead you have bs like “what’s hot?” and “trending”. On my Nexus player i ended up turning every one off and just had the favorite apps row. May be heading that way with the shield too!
Just have YouTube TV show me my most recent DVR recording and I’ll be happy.
To playing devil’s advocate, this is the first major release of Oreo. The Nexus Player was well outdated when 8.0 was released for it. I have no official numbers, but I bet there’s more Shield TVs in the wild than Nexus Player’s. YouTube is probably a higher priority than YT TV. It’s also probably a bit of the old Microsoft problem of teams not working together.
With the release of ADT-2 to devs, it’s not officially stated, but I’m sure a consumer device isn’t too far behind. If they’re still behind on the YT TV channels feature by then, then people should question the service.
I have sling.TV and I’ve noticed two channels, suggested and favorites, and you continue watching items get added to play next. If one of their “competitors ” can do it, so can they.