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Services are cheap. Costs you less for a year, than it would cost you for a single month on cable service. And if you take into consideration PPV, and movies, it is a bargain. Try a few services, find a good one that has the programming you want and is stable, and you move on. Fully loaded boxes are a pain, and you never know what else they have laded also.

But the BuzzTV app does support LiveTV, VOD, and TV Series using a MAC/XC or M3U based sub. So as nbs mentioned, it depends on the service/subscription you get to go along with the box (service not included).

Could be a chipset compatibility issue between the router and the device. Mesh devices can also be very temperamental with some devices, especially when you find yourself between 2 extenders and the extenders try to hand off from one to the other since they detect different signal strengths.

This topic should have been under the X5 section. This is the section for BuzzTV 5 which is the software running on the box. If your router uses only a single SSID for both 2.4 and 5Ghz bands, check to see if there is a way to split it. Companies call it different things, in some cases "band steering". That way the router tries to steer the connection to the best option, but this can also cause issue with some devices. Splitting it, you will have 2 different WiFi SSID, one for 2.4Gh and another for 5Ghz. 5Ghz is typically faster, but shorter range. 2.4Ghz is slower, but longer range, and very often more stable. What is your power key definition set to ? suspend, or shutdown ? Do yourself a favor and switch it to shutdown. Sure it takes an extra 30 seconds to boot, but you know you have a clean boot every time. suspend is not worth the potential headaches and instabilities cased by misbehaving drivers.

Not at home right now, but going from memory, I think there is an option for "decode and bitstream" under settings, no ?

Nice catch, I didn't even notice that. i would never format as internal. The day it fails, you will need to reset the box probably. And if you you ever want to extract files from the NVMe, you won't be able to.

Are you using the actual power supply which came with the P6, or using a power supply from an older Buzz box ? For the Audio through HDMI, try some of the following. Quick one go to settings->device preferences->Display and sound->Advance sound settings and select "None: Never use surround sound". And then see if that helps. If that doesn't help, you can put it back, and then try the following. settings->device preferences->Decode and Bitstream->Audio device and select "Decode" instead of passthrough. If the box/app tries to pass a stream to your soundbar which it does NOT know how to process, you will get nothing. With this option, the P6 will process it. I have not tried any NVMe drive yet. I do have a few new Kingston KC3000 drives and I think I still have an older Samsung 960 Pro lying around. I'll get around to plugging one in one of these days

And should we guess on what type of box you have ? I've so far encountered one box that had that issue, and I just did a hard factory reset on it, and it all came back (and the update was actually applied). Took a little longer to boot after the reset, but it worked. Procedure is here: https://stbtalk.com/topic/300-factory-reset-hard-reset-xr4500-xrs4500/ It is the same for pretty much all buzz boxes.

I personally use file explorer to initially install Solid explorer. And then I use solid explorer to connect to the SMB share on my NAS, and install everything else from there. But, having said that, for non tech savvy customers/friends, appinstaller is relatively idiot proof. I would not have noticed it either, if I had not reset friends classic (due to hung update after reboot). It's nothing critical, but a nice to have when you are used to it. Thanks for the quick reply - and confirmation of eventual fix.

Since you have an X5, why don't you just try it ? There are piles of them out there. But if it "requires" root, then NO.

That could be the server itself. As DU mentioned, during primetime, there are some servers that are overwhelmed, and in some cases will either take quite a while to start, but will eventually start. Or they will take so long, that the app will timeout. Have you tried setting your video player for VOD/TV Series to external, and then when you try to play, try selecting something like VLC, or MX player (assuming you have installed MX player) ? I personally like HB player, which is simple and just works. Have you tried using another app (like Smarters), just to see if it plays using another app ?

Have you set up BuzzTV 5 on the P6 ? BuzzTV 6 and BuzzTV 5 user a different server screen, so you need to configure your servers on BuzzTV 5 for it to work.

E2 ? WHY in the world would you want it to go to BuzzTV 6. Nice box, but I was even surprised they even updated it from BuzzV 4 to 5. I love BuzzTV 5, but the E2 worked a lot quicker with the lighter BuzzTV 4 so it was borderline on the edge of what should have been updated to BuzzTV 5 in my opinion. I could not even imagine "trying" to use it with BuzzTV 6.

Have you tried a hard factory reset ? Happened to a friend of mine on her Classic and she brought me it, and I did a hard reset and all is back. Here is the procedure, different device, but process is the same. Yes you will loose anything you installed on the box, but better than a box that does not work. https://stbtalk.com/topic/300-factory-reset-hard-reset-xr4500-xrs4500/

I like the windscribe vpn app, since it allows me to set it up to auto-connect upon booting the device. And you can even set it to route only specific apps, or exclude specific apps. So for now, on the P6, I have it set to auto connect to NY, and to only route PlutoTV through it so I can get the US content (which I prefer). I'm sure the weather app/widget will be fixed in the near future to reflect the connection, just like it does in the other home screens.