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OK.. The connected vs not connected status message is a bug on many Android 9 boxes (and not only buzz boxes). It does not affect connectivity (and you do see the IP address), but it is annoying. In some cases, just toggling the WiFi button on the top ON-OFF again, will force change the status message. This is not isolated to just the xr4000. Now for the speed, you can't compare your laptop vs the xr4000. Your laptop probably has a Gigabit ethernet adapter, and the xr4000 is just a 10/100 NIC. So it is expected to be at least 10 times slower and will never even come close to capping out your network. Yours is a little on the slow side (even for a 100Mb connection) , but for IPTV it will not affect anything, since I don't know of many IPTV services using that high of a bitrate anyhow. Try opening chrome and point to the following site and see what you get for speed rating: https://fast.com/ Also, just curious, have you tried using WiFi ? Also, keep in mind that the xr4000 is not one of the fastest machines (it has the quite older S905X2 CPU [Gen 2 Cortex A53 based], which dates back to 2019], and it was the budget model with only 2GB of RAM (compared to the XRS which has 4GB). As such, before running any tests, make sure to go to home screen and press the home button 2 or 3 times to close off any background apps first. With 2GB of RAM, the machine will lag behind if it has too many background apps open. PS: Are you running a Dlink router/switch in your network ? Some Dlink switches are known to have really pathetic speeds if used with anything other than typically gigabit connections. So 10/100 connection tend to crawl on some models of Dlink switches/routers. Before I redid my whole network, I used to have a 24port Dlink switch which was fine with most devices. But with 10/100 devices it did all sorts of strange stuff. It was even dropping packets on some of my security cameras Needless to say, it was scrapped.

The BT400 is also an IR remote, so you can use it by pointing it to the front of the x5 to get into the menus. Once it happened to me and it was strange. I unpaired my remote. Then when I went to the add remote/accessory BT screen, even thoguh I did NOT put my remote in pairing mode, yet it still saw it.. But when I selected it, it would say it was pairing... but after a while it would fail. Then I did it using a different sequence. When you go the remote and accessory settings screen, unpair the BT400. Then, select add new remote.. Wait till it starts to check and it will see your BT400 at the top (at least I did, even though my remote was NOT yet in paring mode). Select it, and it will say pairing (or at least it is trying to).. Then, and only then, press and hold the OK+Home button till the LED starts flashing. Then the "pairing" notification changes to "connected". It only happened to me once. It was bizarre, but I could not reproduce it, so hard to fix or explain something that can not be reproduced. Anyhow, give it a try.

Well, don't leave us hanging Want to share, in case it can ever helps someone else ?

Technically yes, which is why I mentioned "PC is the easiest, but other methods could work also".

Which version of buzz 5 are you running (BTW: it is no longer a beta) ? hit the menu key and you can see on the bottom. 5.0.xxx ? 2 services I use, I do not have any issues. I am presently running, 5.0.768. For XCAPI, have you tried removing and/or adding a "/c" at the end of the URL ?

Toast.. No.. But obviously, you will not get any new updates

Everyone should be able to get this via standard OTA update. Only time this would not come through is if you have the 20220624 firmware. In that case, there is no option but to use a microSD card and some way to transfer the files to the microSD card (PC is the easiest, but other methods could work also) to upgrade from 0624.

Update installed. Checked LiveTV for now, and still works as expected. Will do more testing this weekend. Only issue I had was that I needed to unpair and repair my remote. Minor detail, which was simple enough to address. Thnx

Update installed without an issue and all working as expected.

If you have multiple connections, it may be quite difficult to tell, unless it get's posted in one of the many sites which post daily hacked accounts. Then depending on the service you have, your account may get locked out, you may experience constant glitches, etc.. as you go over your connection limit. I've seen one that allows you to connect, you get the channel numbers and EPG, but none of the stream work, since there are already "x" number of active streams. So all depends on how it is implemented. Some services allow you to request an ISP lock, country lock, etc.. to minimize the chances that your account gets hacked. But obviously be careful what you ask for. If you travel or use your service when you are away from home on a portal device, this can cause you some headaches also.

Don't know where you are seeing all these, but as far as I know there are 3 models of the 4500. The XR4500, XRS4500 and XRS4500 MAX. https://buzztv.com/site/xr-4500/ https://buzztv.com/site/xrs-4500/ https://buzztv.com/site/xrs-4500-max/ The main difference is the internal memory and onboard storage. Other than that, they are the same. I would say the xrs4500 is probably the best suited for most people (would be quicker than the xr4500 since it has 4GB of internal memory vs 2 on the basic xr4500). If the xrs4500 max is not much more, you do get double the internal storage, but if planning to use it for recordings, then a USB stick could also be used for that, if you decide to record later.

That it happens on occasion, it does and that is normal (nature of the beast). But I have a few streams where I can easily demonstrate that if I just flash back and forth between them, it is perfectly fine when TS is disabled. If I enable TS, then I consistently get the error messages (in most cases it eventually starts to stream, but can take 4 or 6 seconds). So obviously TS is causing some glitches on certain types of streams. Still trying different permutations/streams to narrow it down.

Also, if you have TS (Timeshift) enabled, try to disable it and see if it makes a difference. I found that on most streams it is fine, but on some streams it does do some strange things. Disabling Timeshift seems to correct strange "cannot decode" type errors on those streams. I am still testing it to try to find a pattern.

What version of BuzzTV are you using ? Hit the menu button when in LiveTV, and it should be shown at the bottom of the menu. But often switch LiveTV player will help. I find some services work better with Primary player, others backup player (or default/secondary - depending on version of BuzzTV you are running).

BT200 also has TV volume control buttons So 2 extra programmable buttons.

I just paired my BT100 and it works perfectly fine also with the U5.

The U5 audio settings are identical to the X5. These are based on Android TV OS version 11. The 4900 Android 9.

Nothing to do with the sub. What these are you on to start with ? The modern theme, or the old classic theme ? Modern theme you have at least 2 ways to get to setting. You have icon on the top, which is a shortcut to settings.. And you can also click on the "all apps" icons, and you should have a gear icon in there. And if you been there before, you should also have a gear icon on the last line of the screen if you scroll to the right. If you are on the Classic theme, you have one shortcut on the main row of apps, if you scroll to the right. And if you click on ALL Apps, you should also have a gear icon for the settings.

My 4500 is presently at 5.0.767. Initial conversion from Buzz 4 to Buzz 5 I believe will bring you to .653 or something around that. Then a few minutes later (can take up to 15 minutes or so) it will update via OTA to the latest version which as of this moment is 5.0.767.

I just tested suspend on my second 4900 which I JUST finally got around to upgrading to buzztv 5 earlier this afternoon. Works as expected. When you have power definition set to suspend, and you are watching LiveTV, it will just put the device into a sleep state, screen turns off, and unit goes from Blue LED to Red LED. When you power it back on, it will come one nearly instantaneously, and resume in LiveTV and then continue streaming the same channel you were tuned to when you went into suspend. So the issue is not with BuzzTV 5. It is something in the U5 firmware specifically and like dishuser mentioned, I am sure it will be fixed shortly.

Are you turning on WiFi while you are still connected via Ethernet ? If so, unplug the ethernet cable first.

What theme are you using ? Try switching themes to something like Buzz Classic.. And then go back in and change back to buzz modern.

I JUST upgraded my second 4900 10 minutes ago (t was long overdue, but I used the file in the downloads section of this forum - since my box had really old firmware 20210411 or something like that). But even then, everything worked like a charm and lost nothing. Even my favorites are still there, and all my apps. Only thing I had to do was go into PVR options and redo the options of where my pvr recordings, TS, and vod downloads go. That's it. Got one message upon first boot about some service not starting, but that was only first boot. rebooted twice since then and it is clean.

On the U5, at the moment, if you have the powerkey definition set to "suspend" or "force suspend" (I tried both) it does nothing more than bring you to the home screen. It will not put the device in suspend (as we know it on other devices). Light stays blue and screen stays on. (NOTE: I am using the BT400, with remote paired, I have not tried with IR remote, if that makes a difference. It should not, but maybe something slipped through the crack). Also, unlike previous devices, when the new devices (at least on the X5 - but I will test again) prepare to go into suspend mode, they go to the home screen first. So when you come out of suspend, it is quick in resuming since it doesn't go through the boot sequence, but you are in the home screen, not in liveTV even if that is where you were when you hit the power key to go into suspend.

BuzzTV 5 is out of beta. IT is what gets delivered with all new boxes (X5, HD5, U5, etc..). Been running it for over a year, and it works great. If you choose to stick to buzzTV4, be prepared to live with any issues it may or may not have since there will not be any updates on v4. All efforts are now on BuzzTV5, and the fact that most boxes are synced (E2, 4000, 4500, 4900, X5, HD5, U5...) are running very close to the same version, it makes it easier to concentrate efforts on a unified front. Last week 766 was released, and all beta users were updated to that, and they are public OTA now for anyone on buzztv5. The 2015 method will take you to a beta, sure. But then there will be an OTA update to update the beta to release. But you are FREE to chose to stay on buzzTV4 if you chose. It is NOT being forced on anyone.