Looking at the Nvidia shield option. Does this just act as the conduit of you other places media?
For instance we use the XBox Ones App for our interface. Will this replace the XBox\plex interface?
The Shield, at least the pro model, can act as a server just fine. However I cannot recommend that it be used as such as the power of the device is too low and, for a decent sized library, it is woefully lacking in the power needed to fulfill its roll as a server.
It is said that the Shield has the best support for playback of any other player and that has, mostly, been my experience but I also found that Plex, or Emby for that matter, just are too clumsy on the Shield for comfortable use.
I prefer to use a decent older computer for my server and, mostly, use a Roku Ultra for playback.
But that is just me. I know others that use the Shield for playback and are quite happy with it. I know of no one using the Shield as a server except for a few people that have very small libraries. I wish my Shield was better for Plex but it is not and is not likely to be anytime soon.
Thanks Elijah… I guess I wasnt clear and I apologize about that. I have a VM server with about 1200 movies on it and use XBox as the conduit, (player) and I think it might be underpowered for my 4K collections.
Im wondering if I can just replace the XBox with the Shield, still use the server (media warehouse) and have better performance of my Plex movies…?
Then the answer you seek is, yes.
The Shield I have plays everything I have thrown at it.
However I do have to admit that I do not use 4K at all. (My old eyes just cannot see any difference.) So i cannot really say how it will preform for you.
I can also say that everything I have heard about the X-Box implies that everything above a Zoetrope will be an improvement for streaming movies.
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Perfect, thanks again Elijah. I dont prefer the 4K either really. I dont need to see the pores of an actors skin, but some of my torrents only come down in 4K so…
Ok time to go shopping. Ill update with how this works. (Also hope it works with my Harmony Remote)
I do not know for sure about the newer Shields as mine is a few years old but my Shield works nearly perfectly with my Harmony hub and remote.
I had a bit of trouble getting my Shield to awaken from sleep and show its screen when I had not run my Shield for a while. But I fixed that with a simple setting or two in the Shield’s setup page.
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Make sure that you get the Shield Pro.
The “tube” doesn’t share the positive track record of the Pro.
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Ok my Shield TV Pro just arrived. Trying to Setup my Harmony Touch remote and its telling me the P2897 doesnt appear to be the correct model number. Harmony setup is giving me a Yellow ! warning and of course when I open it, the URL is a dead link.
Any ideas?
Pissing me off, on a Friday night and farting around on this,
All I had to do for my Shield Pro was tell Harmony that is was a Shield Pro and then simply follow the bouncing ball.
However there are a few things that may be different:
- My Shield Pro is an old model. It was part of Shield’s original run of the Pro.
- My Harmony setup is a Harmony Hub and that means that all setup is done through Harmony’s app and mostly online.
- My Shield is connected to my network wired. I did have a few issues when it was connected wirelessly but that was caused by poor signal quality as my Shield was a long way from my router and through a couple of walls. It was dropping commands.
I am unfamiliar with the Harmony Touch but, if it uses settings and setup like the hub, then it “should” setup without problems.
Since I never had problems setting my Shield up I can be of little further help. You might want/need to contact Harmony support. It sounds like a problem with either their setup or with the Harmony Touch itself or with whatever app you are using to set it up.
Cancel it looks like my Harmony Touch wont work with the Shield, only works with Hub and Remote so Im sending the Shield back… Thanks all.
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