Emporium

Is the remote paired to the box ? The BT200 is both an IR and a BT remote. The IR should work, just by pointing the remote towards the front of the box. For the BT to work, it needs to be paired to the box. Let's start with the IR. If the box is not responding to it, first thing to check is that the IR LED on the front of the remote is working. The LED emits and IR signal. You obviously can't see it, but the easiest way is to take your cellphone camera, then point the LED towards the cell phone camera and see if you can see the LED light up. A cell phone camera can usually see the LED light up. If that does not work, then the LED is burned out. If the IR LED seems to be working, then it may be the IR receiver on the 4900 that may have an issue (but I doubt it, since you say even the learning buttons don't work). If the IR (ie: pointing remote - is not working) If you have a computer mouse, you can connect it to the box, and then go to the settings, and select the remote and accessories option. Do you see the BT200 listed there ? If so, is it "connected" ? If not, then delete the remote (if it is listed), and then select to "add" a new remote/device. Press “OK” + “VOL - ” for 3 seconds until Red LED “breathing on”. Remote enters pairing mode. Device name is BuzzTV BT-200. You will need to have the 4900 in searching /add mode in order to fully pair the remote. But if the IR LED is not working, and the box is still under warranty, I'd contact cs@buzztv.com

He said he did

You are 100% correct. This however was NOT the behavior a while back (resume from suspend, or from CEC resume would always take you to home screen). It was probably corrected in one of the many updates. Some of the updates have so many new features, that I often spend more time checking out the new features, that the fixes I just tested it on my new X5 64AX-C and from suspend, it resumes in LiveTV (if that is where you were) and resumes playing from the last channel. I even tested the "Virtual CEC" since I have the box connected to a computer monitor. Turn the monitor off while I was watching LiveTV. Took about 5 second, and the box went into suspend mode. Turn the monitor back on, and the box resumed and started LiveTV from the last channel I was connected to (box was playing before the monitor had even started displaying image - which is less than 3 seconds for my monitor).

Suspend on the 4500 will do that, but suspend on the 5 series devices will not as a far as I recall. It will start up faster (since it is just a resume), but will not go back into LiveTV. It restores from suspend back to the main home screen if I recall. I personally avoid suspend. A clean boot is priceless to ensure the stability of any device. Suspend over time does tend to cause issues especially with networking (mostly WiFi). That is a personal choice/preference I guess.

From LiveTV Menu-> Settings->Configuration->(near the bottom) Start Live TV on boot (Check it to ON).

CEC is the only way as far as I know. So if sound bar supports CEC, it should be able to be controlled. Otherwise, you will need to continue to use the remote of the sound bar for sound bar specific. You can either use CEC to control it. Or you can ignore the CEC stuff, and you can set the sound bar to some mid level, and then use the variable audio from the box itself. I have a small sound bar on my TV in my bedroom, and I just leave it at roughly mid volume, and just use the regular volume control on my box.

This is the U5 section... Not complicated, create a thread under your box model. The U5 and the xrs4900 don't even run the same OS.

There is nothing illegal about the buzzTV box itself. It is just a media player, just like their Amazon Fire Stick, Fire Cube, FireTV, AppleTV, etc... Unless however "your" ad specifies that it comes with some included IPTV service. They did crack down on many who were advertising included services with other IPTV boxes.

CHANGE batteries... When batteries are getting low, the IR functions will continue to work and BT functions will take a back seat.

That usually means it is NOT paired with BT. You are probably just using the IR functions of the remote. Manual can be found here: https://buzztv.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/BT400-300_manual_WEB_v6_Compress.pdf I'd probably go into remote/accessory menu, unpair the remote, then do a factory reset on the remote (see manual above), and then go into menu and add new remote and put remote into pairing mode to re-pair the unit.

When you formatted the SSD, you were given an option probably to format as portable storage or internal storage. I always recommend to people to use it as portable storage. But that is personal choice. If you format as internal storage, the Android OS will "adopt" the filesystem nd treat it as an extension of it's internal storage. Advantages are that "some" (not all) apps can install onto the ssd, keeping some more free space on the onboard. But the negatives are, that it can ONLY be ready on this box, and if the SSD ever fails, you will probably have no choice but to do a factory reset, since the OS would be missing a lot of files which were installed to the SSD and it would misbehave. Formatting it as portable, it is used only for file transfers, PVR recording, downloads, etc.. And the drive can be removed, and you can easily connect the drive to a PC to transfer files to/from the drive.

Well, maybe for you.. I went all the way to payment screen and put in my Canadian address and it still remained in USD. Anyhow, whatever.. Just something to keep an eye out for. At least I like the fact that it CLEARLY tells you it is in USD so there are no surprises.

oops double post

My bad. I didn't check your link, read it quickly and assumed it was a link to the "spec/brochure" But it is available on the US shopping page, but not on the Canadian one. Guess you can always shop on the US site and ship to Canada (if you are in Canada). Just keep in mind prices are in USD for Canadian shoppers.

If you can find it, since I am pretty sure it has been discontinued. Hence why the second recommendation was the BT250 (by nbs above) if you can live without the backlight.

I agree. This is by far my favorite Buzz remote (came with my xrs4900 units), but it is not that easy to buy any more. One touch control for backlight (and super simple to activate, even in the dark) like du mentioned, and instead of playing with CEC to control TV, it has 4 IR learning buttons (TV Power, TV Input toggle, and TV Volume up and down). The only thing it doesn't have, which was added to the BT250 is the airmouse feature (which is a very nice feature, but for my usage style on a buzz, I don't really don't use that too much anyhow).

That's probably the only way. assuming your TV supports it. The remote was never advertised as having "learn IR" features.

The ARQ200 does not have any "learning" mode. It is designed for the newer 5 series of BuzzTV boxes. And those have a menu, where you can program shirtcuts to the colored buttons. The rest are already hardcoded to BuzzTV code. The only learning is to be able to pair it with the USB dongle (should it not be pre-paired. The quick install guide can be found here: https://buzztv.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/BuzzTV-ARQ-200s-Remote-Manual-v3.pdf It is very similar to the generic MX3 type remotes, but the colored buttons are not IR learning. They work within the BuzzTV software, and can be programmed for program shortcuts when in anything else (on a 5 series Buzz box).

Turn it off, exit buzztv app, and restart and it should get rid of the messages. The way some services stream is not very "timeshift" friendly.

Have you tried playing something locally (off usb stick or something) with VLC ? If you use the internal players on Buzztv (instead of external/VLC), does your VOD play fine ?

Just a small addition... on some services you may need to change the stream type to HLS for catchup to work properly. Can be changed from "Menu->Settings->Configuration" from LiveTV, and should be the last option on that menu. Keep in mind your server needs to support/offer Catchup, and it is typically not on all channel (some servers offer more catchup than others)

When you say "downloader", what downloader app are you referring to ? To sideload, I prefer to download the apk files to my PC and then copy them to a USB stick. Once on USB stick, I just insert into the box, and start the appinstaller which scans the USB stick and presents me the available APKs to be installled. That way, if I ever need to reset my box, all the apps I like to install are on a common USB stick, so reinstalling them takes minutes.

I personally prefer SSD drives. A decent quality, name brand SSD in my opinion is the way to go. Quicker to access. require less power, and generate a lot less heat than some mechanical drives. Prices have dropped quite a bit. Even a Crucial MX500 series 1TB SSD, or even a Sandisk 1TB Ultra can be had for under CDN$80 on amazon canada.

The one for the multiple favorites groups is presently in beta. I do not control and have no idea how long it will be before it is released to general public. It will include many other nice features like being able to backup your server info, favorites, etc.. also. Since it includes many new features, it won't be released tomorrow however. But for now, if you don't use favorites (considering you want to hide channels in other categories), you can use it as I describe in the second half of my 2nd paragraph above. That option has been there for some time now.

I agree with dishuser. Not the site to discuss shortcomings on 3rd party app. No clue why you'd buy a buzz box to run 3rd party iptv app. Check the tivimate forums for support on the app. And who designs software today and uses the "Huawei Mobile Services" core. Never seen that message.