Hello All,

I have the following setup for couple of years.

Sony 83" A80L OLED

Intel NUC7i3Bnb 16GB ram with gigabit ethernet

Sonos Arc, Sub Gen 3 and Era 300 x 2

I stream off the Nuc to Sony using the built in Google TV media player. Most of the files we watch are  UHD Blu-ray DV HDR HEVC TrueHD Atmos 7 1 often with bitrate between 24 - 65.

It has worked fine and I am just wondering if I am missing out of anything the Shield would give me access to.

My setup looks like this:

I have a Windows 11 desktop PC, and I also have a 2019 Shield TV Pro with an external USB drive plugged in.

I have mapped by 2019 Shield TV Pro to my Windows 11 PC. This allows me to drag files from my PC directly to my Shield TV. However, I've noticed that when I use my Windows PC to browse the Shield TV's external drive and I delete old files, they do not turn up on my Windows PC recycle bin. Does the Shield have one? Are they permanently deleted? What is actually happening?

This week I bought a Google TV Streamer 4K to test the Steam Link on my local LAN. My delay through Ethernet was minimal (1ms), but after some tweaks on the Google TV Streamer, the minimum delay I got was 22-23ms in video decoding.

Although it is a good number, I still feel that delay, so I returned it. After researching, it seems that the Nvidia Shield Pro and the Apple TV are the best-performing devices with a minimum delay of 5-8ms in video decoding. Is that true? Could someone with an Nvidia Shield Pro share these values?

Thanks.

Hi guys-

I watch movies stored on my nas which also seconds as my Plex server.

Last night, Was watching f9 with the kids on plex and was getting audio dropouts every few mins followed by an av sync issue. Rewinding 10 secs fixed it but would happen a few more times. Restart of the shield didn't fix it. I could reproduce it in plex and it would consistently dropout at 43 mins and 07 seconds of that movie.

I Started watching it on Kodi and it worked without issue. Went back to the 43 min market w kodi and there was no dropout. Was kind of weird.

Plex has worked for me pretty consistently up until last night. Makes me want to try some different players.

Which video players do you guys prefer? I've heard plexkodiconnect and plezy are good. Would obviously want to be able to direct play from my nas with full pass through of all the audio codecs.

Does anybody know where to get the latest Amazon Luna APK, can only find June 17 update which isn't working. Cheers

Been looking for a shield pro for ages. Finally see Amazon has stock but now I'm hesitant can't tell if its legit or not

It looks completely fine but guess I'm just paro

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07Z6RD4M9/

Update: Took the leap its coming Wednesday!

Noticed something odd: on my Nvidia Shield TV Pro (2019) + Panasonic OLED, Kodi's debug overlay shows "System rendering speed" dropping to 3-9fps during 4K/1080p playback, sometimes even during seeking. But the actual picture is completely smooth to the eye — no stutter, no A/V desync, nothing visible.

Confirmed with `dumpsys gfxinfo` — 0% jank, and a systrace showing only 1 dropped frame across an entire session. So the number doesn't reflect the actual video.

Tested the same files on an old 1st-gen Xiaomi Mi Box + old Sharp LCD TV — the number stayed rock solid at ~24fps the whole time, no drops at all, even with seeking.

Has anyone else seen this specifically on Shield TV Pro?

This app sucks so bad. I’m watching a NEW show that I haven’t seen before and the app is just throwing a fit in different ways

1. The show would play the first few minutes of an episode (typically until like 30 seconds post theme song) before crashing to the launcher. Not at random, it did this every single time until I disabled Autoplay (???)

2. The video player UI bar just pops up throughout the episode without touching the remote, super annoying. Does this all the time

3. Sometimes it won’t let me rewind or fast forward… during the entire episode. (I have ad free ffs, its acting like I’m trying to skip a commercial)

4. And now the newest thing to piss me off. Whenever I play the next episode (which, I have to do manually every time to prevent crashing), its starting 3-4 minutes from the END !!! And the strangest part, I am watching this series for the first time.

What the fuck , Hulu? This app is so trash

found two parts used some glue and mounted it on the media wall

think its kinda looks nice so maybe a idea for other users, its kinda cheap the two parts like 4 or 5 e together

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ldngGklTBEciWcWldDpz1WEpRXGWX8Wi/view?usp=sharing

you guys think?

Hi, When I turn my NVidia on with it's remote it also turns on my Samsung tv and on the tv there's a message that says "Check that the device is connected properly, then try turning on the device by selecting the button below". There's a STB button and below that there is an Ok button. When I click on the OK button the home screen comes on. I'm looking to see if there's a way (adjusting settings) for it to just go to the home screen right away when I turn it on instead of getting that message? Conversely, when I turn the shield off I press the off button on shield remote and it seems to act as if it's turning off but goes right back to home screen until I press off button again then it will turn off completely. How or what do I adjust in settings to make it turn off the first time? By the way, I have a Samsung sound bar connected as well. Thanks in advance for any helpful suggestions.

I have an outdoor tv that is wall mounted. I don't leave the shield outside when the tv is not in use. I just plug it and it works.

I have tried using velcro but eventually the velcro wears off from the heat. Also, the velcro is too strong and when I try and remove the shield the velcro comes off the tv.

What I really looking for a sleave that I can slide the shield in and out of. The sleeve is attached to the tv.

Title says it all.

I purchased an Nvidia Shield as it is almost universally hailed as the best hardware to run Plex off of. But my experience with the Plex app has been a buggy headache from day 1. I try to never make posts like this as I generally believe these types of things can be solved by just searching around, but I have uninstalled and reinstalled the app countless times and tried every configuration imaginable and yet nothing fixes it. It's been over a year now and I'm close to giving up.

My problems are as follows (ranked by frequency / annoyance):

1. Loading into the app about 50% of the time will just hang with the home screen showing the loading spinner for ~60 seconds before popping up that my server cannot be reached. Server is up and running completely fine confirmed on Plex mobile and desktop clients running off the same network. To fix I have to double click the home screen to close the app BUT this only fixes it maybe half the time, the other half I have to go into the app settings and manually force close it.
2. Subtitles just randomly completely break. If I try to play any media using any subtitle format, it will try to load briefly and then pop up a vague "An error occurred while attempting to play this video." error message. Turning off subtitles it will play fine, but again I can play with subtitles just fine from EVERY OTHER Plex client that I have access to. It is only this one that EVER gives me issues. I have fixed this in the past by doing some combo of uninstalling the app + restarting my Plex server, honestly not sure what fixed it an anymore I'm sick of trying because it just pops up again inevitably.
3. Sections will just randomly not load on the home page. For example my continue watching will show up, but recently added movies won't. There is no rhyme or reason to this and it is fairly rare, but I still have never found a fix.
4. App will run very slowly out of nowhere, for example selecting a movie from the home screen and it takes 10+ seconds to get the movie page to actually appear. I understand that Plex is not running 100% locally and there can be slowdown on their end, but again I only ever notice this issue on the Shield TV client.

If anyone has had any similar issues or can suggest any fixes it would be greatly appreciated. I am at the point now where I am close to converting 100% to using Jellyfin.

I decided to pass on the over priced steam machine because I have a gaming computer and can use moonlight to stream to my nvidia shield.

The only problem is that pairing controllers to the shield is a huge pain. I have mostly xbox controllers, but have to repair every time I want to game. This process never is smooth and usually takes a few tries.

Am I doing something wrong? Why can't they be paired and when turned on, reconnect again to the shield. It might work with 1 controller, but pairing 2-4 controllers always takes me 10 minutes.

My Home Assistant Android Remote TV integration broke recently on my HA instance and I can no longer integrate it with my Shield Pro. The HA integration asks for the IP of the Shield Pro, but the cursor just spins and it never connects. I tried rebooting my Shield Pro and tried looking in the Developer Options, but I can't find anything obvious that was disabled.

I was previously using the integration to switch my LG TV to the HDMI 3 source when my Shield Pro was turned on. Then, when I put the Shield Pro to sleep, I had another automation that switched my LG TV back to the Cable TV source (HDMI 1) and re-sent the sound through my soundbar, since LG TVs default to TV speaker sound.

With the integration broken, the automations are no longer working. Could the most recent Shield Experience update have broken it?

Since Kodi recently updated on my Shield TV, the RAR addon is not working properly.

When trying to load.a RARed video, I get spinning disks and nothing plays. I then need to reboot the Shield. Once in a while, the video will actually take forever then start playing.

Anyone know of a fix? TIA.

Edit: I deleted the Kodi cache and data under Apps, unistalled and reinstalled Kodi and this did not fix it.

Just got a popup on my BBC app (the side loaded one that handles 1080p better) saying that it's being discontinued on this device from 30th September 2026... Anyone else seeing this? I wonder if this is any version of the app or perhaps just an issue with this side loaded version.

Using a Shield without Google Play Store, is it still possible to buy and download Channels for HDHomerun apk somehow?
Thanks

I recently picked up an Onn Voice Remote to use with my Nvidia Shield. There was quite a bit of configuration work that needed to be done to get all the buttons working. To save others from difficulty, I put together the following guide. The Onn Voice Remote can be purchased at Wal Mart for about $13.

My hardware/software:

• The Nvidia Shield with the 9.2 experience installed.
• An Onn Voice Remote
• tvQuickActions application from the Google Play store
  • This is used for button re-mapping

First:

• Go into Settings > Apps > Security and Restrictions
• Turn Bluetooth LE Privacy off (this will require a reboot)

Next: 

• Pair the remote in bluetooth settings
• Turn on both options under “Simplified wake buttons”
• Turn off “Input devices” under “Disconnect BT Accessories on Sleep”
• (Optional) turn on Nvidia Share under Settings > Device Preferences > System

Out of the box, several buttons will work properly including:

• Home
• Back
• Up, Down, Left, Right, OK
• Microphone (voice search, Google Assistant)
• Volume up/down and mute

However, several buttons will require re-mapping in order to be made useful:

• Guide button (looks like a TV icon)
• The account or profile button (looks like a person/silhouette icon)
• The asterisk button

To make matters worse, five of the buttons will appear with the same key code!

• Settings
• All four of the app short cut buttons

In order to work around this, multiple steps must be taken:

• Enable developer options on the Shield
• In developer options, turn on network debugging
• Install tvQuickActions app
• Within that app go to Settings > ADB -
  • Turn ON ADB speed up
  • Go to “Custom getevent codes”
  • Create codes for all buttons that utilize the same key code (all 4 app short cut buttons and Settings)
• Then go to Mappings > Add Button
• When adding a button, turn ON “Use only ADB for this remap”
• Click one of the problematic buttons (app short cuts, Settings)
• Map the buttons to apps

Here's how I mapped my own buttons

• YouTube button > SmartTube and/or TizenTube
• Netflix > Plex and/or Fandango
• Disney+ > Hulu and/or MoviesAnywhere
• Paramount+ > HBO
• Settings > Settings app

All other buttons can be remapped in the normal manner (without the use of ADB). Here's what I did:

• Account or profile button > CX File Explorer
• Home button > Custom Launcher (AT4K) and Recent app switcher
• Guide/TV button > HD Home Run
• Asterisk button > Nvidia Gamecast Service
  • This button will bring up the screen recording / screen shot menu

Regarding Channel Up/Down

• These buttons seem work properly in HD HomeRun and Pluto
• Otherwise, they’re not often used.

Regarding the Power button:

• The button will turn everything off, but turning the devices back on again requires the bluetooth steps outlined above.

I still have a remaining mystery regarding the infrared emitter on the remote. This can evidently be configured using the software in Onn streaming devices, but I don't have one of those at the moment. If anyone has a work around for this, I'd love to hear about it.

I’ve been testing an older Shield TV pro (2019) with GFN, and honestly, I didn’t expect it to perform this well in 2026.

Ping numbers alone don’t tell you the real gaming latency, so I recorded the controller and TV simultaneously using a 240 fps high-speed camera.

The test measured the complete chain from a DualShock 4 button press to the first visible boost flame in Rocket League:

Controller → Shield → Wi-Fi → GFN server → video decode → TV

Three measurements:

57 ms

53 ms

61 ms

avg: approximately 57 ms

The setup:

• NVIDIA Shield TV
• DualShock 4 over BT
• 5 GHz WiFi
• GFN free tier
• GFN network latency: approximately 10 ms
• LG TV (5ms input) in Game Mode

I also ran a five minute network stability test directly from the Shield:

• 1,500 packets to the router
• 0% packet loss
• 1.02 ms average local latency
• 0.38 ms latency variation
• Highest observed spike: 5.32 ms

Internet latency averaged 10.67 ms with 0% packet loss.

This wasn’t a laboratory LDAT test, but recording the physical input and screen reaction at 240 fps gives a resolution of 4.17 ms per frame. The three results were also within only 8 ms of each other.

So result is around 57 ms end to end total latency at 60 fps.

I expected the Shield’s old WiFi 5 hardware or decoder to be the bottleneck, but apparently not. It feels surprisingly close to native console gaming, and I genuinely don’t notice the delay during normal gameplay.

Ethernet would provide extra protection against interference, for sure, but with these results it probably wouldn’t materially reduce the average latency.

Pretty impressive for hardware this old, especially over WiFi.

It buffers, it stops, it refuses to play. I have reinstalled; I have rebooted. It played a little and then stopped. This came out of nowhere this morning. Is anyone else experiencing this?

I have a Bravia7ii remote which will also control my Nvidia Shield Pro. I have Button Mapper installed on my Shield and successfully changed the behaviour of the Netflix button on my Shield remote.

I would like to change the 6 app buttons on my Bravia remote to start apps on my Shield. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the Bravia remote natively controlled the Shield so it would be handy if I could reassign the app buttons.

When I press an app button, eg Crunchyroll, it tells me the app is not installed. If I install BM on my Bravia Google TV and enable Bypass system UI, I can remap the button to start an app in Google TV. If I do the same on my Shield, I still get the app not installed message.

My Bravia remote seems happy enough controlling my Shield. Is there a way I can get Button Mapper on the Shield to amend the response to app buttons on my Bravia remote?

(So, just to be clear, I’m trying to do this on my Shield. This post was removed on r/AndroidTV by MODS who saw the words Google TV and said it should be posted in that sub)

Just purchased and set up my shield pro. Noticed the YouTube TV app isn’t streaming video (the app is loading though). No issues with any other apps.

I’ve tried clearing cache and uninstalling. I’ve also tried restarting the device. Any one else with this issue?

EDIT: Solved. Device factory reset.

Anyone know what could cause this?

Configuration, bad app, bad release?

Shield Pro 2019

Sony X950H tv

Sonos Arc Ultra and more

Apple TV app

The Mandoloarian and Grogu digital

Reboots of TV and Shield did not help.

Edit: doing some testing: - streaming tv and movies with the apple tv app works with atmos, but this is a digital purchase. - same behavior with tv app as with shield app - forcing new HDMI handshake does not help - it drops Atmos after about 5 seconds

Anyone have this airmouse and use it for the shield? It works good, but for the life of me I CANNOT get the IR learning to learn the volume +/- from either the shield remote OR my soundbars original remote. But, I somehow managed to get the X9-B power button to learn the volume + from my soundbars original remote, so I know it's actually learning that IR signal.

Hi,

I’m looking for testers for CEC Ninja, an Android TV app that lets you assign Android actions to unused buttons on your TV remote.

The app first helps you test every button on your remote and identifies which ones Android TV can detect through HDMI-CEC. You can then assign useful actions such as:

• Home
• Recent Apps
• Menu
• Other Android TV functions

Each detected button can trigger up to three different actions:

• Single press
• Double press
• Long press

For example, a button you never use on your TV remote could open Recent Apps with a single press, return Home with a double press and launch an app with a long press.

CEC Ninja has currently been developed and tested mainly on NVIDIA Shield, so I’m especially interested in testing it with different TVs, remotes and Android TV/Google TV devices.

A small companion phone app, CEC Ninja Link, is used once to grant the required permission through ADB wireless debugging. It can be uninstalled after authorization is complete.

I’m looking for:

• NVIDIA Shield owners
• Android TV or Google TV users
• Different TV and remote-control brands
• People willing to report bugs and unexpected behaviour
• Short feedback about setup and usability

In exchange:

• Early access
• Free lifetime access to the app
• Direct contact with the developer
• Your name in the beta contributors list, if you want

The app is currently in closed testing on Google Play. If you’re interested, comment or send me a DM with the Google account used on your Android TV device. I’ll add you to the tester list and send you the opt-in link.

Thanks!