**NEW** Official P6 Firmware + Buzz 6 App Update - Sept 19th, 2024

[Mark04276]

First, yes I use the power supply that came with the P6, never owned a buzz tv before. I have tried those settings for the sound but still acts the same way. Really weird but again I just use bluetooth and works fine. As for my storage be used as internal storage, I guess just cause I have always done this in the past with my other android box and figured this wasn't a drive that I would just take out and use in any other device I have to begin with. Now I am wondering if this is what may be causing some of my issues to begin with. I will have to switch it over and try it out that way.

[allaboutbuzz]

22 hours ago, Mark04276 said:

So couple/few issues I am encountering on my P6. So sometimes my P6 ha6d the red light on but it is actually on and works like normal with a green light. (First picture)

Second issue is P6 keeps disconnecting (forgets) my m.2 NVME external drive that I have formatted as internal. I have to reboot the P6 in order for it to be recognized and usable again. This happens almost daily after waking up the shield. (2nd and 3rd picture)

Third issue is some apps not playing sound on my Vizio sound bar using HDMI cable. Paramount+ was one of the apps. It would actually play sound on the preview but if I go watch a show, any show no sound. Since they fixed the Bluetooth I just use my Vizio sound bar with Bluetooth and works with no issue. 

The external drive issue listed above is by far the worse of the 3 issues I have at the moment. 

Did you format the Drive before or after the previous OTA we sent?

As we fixed this issue with the drives on the last OTA, and it might require you formatting it again

[Mark04276]

9 minutes ago, allaboutbuzz said:

Did you format the Drive before or after the previous OTA we sent?

As we fixed this issue with the drives on the last OTA, and it might require you formatting it again

It would have been before since I put that drive in the day I got my P6. I will have to format when I get the chance. 

[Mark04276]

On 10/29/2024 at 6:11 PM, allaboutbuzz said:

Did you format the Drive before or after the previous OTA we sent?

As we fixed this issue with the drives on the last OTA, and it might require you formatting it again

Okay had time to spend on this P6 today. Here's what I found out after formatting my NVME as internal.

First I couldn't see or access the internal 128 gb in any file manager apps, just the 2tb NVME. I didn't really care about that part cause I am just installing apps on that drive but can see where it might be a problem down the line. It still showed up in settings under storage. The apps were still installed on that 128gb drive and when I installed an app it installed on my nvme drive and I was able to move it to the internal drive.

Second, while syncing data back to my NVME drive, the sync failed and upon investigating the NVME drive was listed as removable storage instead of internal in settings again, same issue as before.

So I then formatted the NVME as removable storage to eliminate that issue from happening all together. Well another issue came into play at this time. Was not able to put large files on the NVME drive, somewhere around the 4.2gb range and larger. So basically had to put 21Gb of files on my internal drive cause the NVME formatted as removable wouldn't work, it had no problem when I formatted NVME as internal. 

Right now I am setup as NVME formatted as removable and living with the fact that 21 Gb of files is on the internal drive instead of my NVME drive. This is very time consuming but thank got folder sync app works well.

 

[Emporium]

BTW, there is a new firmware coming very soon, which will address many issues with exFAT drives.  And from some testing I did, at least for USB drives, any drives 16GB or smaller will get formatted by default in FAT32 format.  Anything lager will get format as exFAT which will overcome the 4GB file size limitation (which is an FAT32 filesystem limitation and not a Buzz limitation).  And they also greatly improved the exFAT detection/recognition which was an issue.

So don't go overboard just yet on filling up the NVMe drive.  Wait till the next update, so you can then reformat it, and it should hopefully address the issues.

But one thing for sure, stay with removable storage.   Formatting as internal is just a recipe for disaster the day it gets corrupted or crashes.

 

 

 

[Mark04276]

5 minutes ago, Emporium said:

BTW, there is a new firmware coming very soon, which will address many issues with exFAT drives.  And from some testing I did, at least for USB drives, any drives 16GB or smaller will get formatted by default in FAT32 format.  Anything lager will get format as exFAT which will overcome the 4GB file size limitation (which is an FAT32 filesystem limit

But one thing for sure, stay with removable storage.   Formatting as internal is just a recipe for disaster the day it gets corrupted or crashes.

 

 

 

In my case I don't have any worries about losing the data on the NVME drive. I actually have all these files on my qnap server and also another on a USB drive. Backups are very important no matter what device you have. My qnap actually got hit with that 7 zip ransomware and locked me out of all my pictures but since I had the backup on my USB drive, it didn't affect me other than time to reset the Qnap. 

Thanks for the info and advice. Will be looking forward for that OTA. 

[Emporium]

Just now, Mark04276 said:

In my case I don't have any worries about losing the data on the NVME drive. I actually have all these files on my qnap server and also another on a USB drive. Backups are very important no matter what device you have. My qnap actually got hit with that 7 zip ransomware and locked me out of all my pictures but since I had the backup on my USB drive, it didn't affect me other than time to reset the Qnap. 

Thanks for the info and advice. Will be looking forward for that OTA. 

Don't need to remind me of backups.  I'm a backupaholic   I have a few 5 bay and 8 bay synology units.  And I also have 2x 12 bay rackmount RS2418+ units as my main units.  The main unit has most of my files and is the one forward facing to my internal network and family can see and use.  The second unit, is not on the actual network.  It has been configured as a Hypervault destination, and it can ONLY be seen from the main NAS using the hypervault API.  That way even if the first unit get's attacked by any ransomware that may originate on some other device on the network, it can't see the hypervault server.

The Main NAS backs up all it's filesystems weekly onto this second NAS (which it can only see via a direct ethernet connection - no switch).  And there is at least a 6 month retention configured.   And any super personal/critical files, are backed up remotely to my old Synology 5 bay which I have located at mom's house (so I have my offsite backup).

So I fully understand about the backups... lol

 

 

[Mark04276]

44 minutes ago, Emporium said:

 

So I fully understand about the backups... lol

 

 

You certainly have my backup scenario looking like a open window, lol. I certainly wasn't implying you didn't understand backups by any means, more food for thought for others that may read the thread. Nothing but respect to you and others that have much more knowledge here than I do.

 

 

[Mark04276]

Out of curiosity I decided to plug in an external USB drive. I still have the NVME external drive installed while doing this. I was kind of surprised at what I found considering I was expecting nothing to happen.

Regular USB drive:I got a pop up message asking if I wanted to use file manager with this drive. I answered yes but after that I couldn't see or use this drive anywhere. I tried to reboot while this drive was plugged in but it wouldn't reboot at all until I unplugged that drive. 

USB-C external drive: I just happened to have one of these laying around so what the heck. When I plugged it in, I didn't get any notifications at all, so figured it was going to be a quick dead end. However in settings/storage it was listed there right below my NVME drive. I clicked on that USB-C drive figuring it would let me do a format either as internal or external like the NVME drive but as soon as I clicked on it, my home screen instantly popped up. I figured well that's that. But I opened my file manager and there it was listed with my other drive and I was able to access it. I then did a reboot to see if it would and it rebooted just fine. So on the outside it didn't look like it was going to work but it does. This kind of opens up other options that I didn't know I was going to have.

Long story short (I know too late), was this supposed to work having 2 external drives to begin with or just something I happen to stumble on?

[Chris1]

I did the same thing and was able to record to the drive in the USB-C

[Mark04276]

On 11/4/2024 at 7:09 PM, Emporium said:

BTW, there is a new firmware coming very soon, which will address many issues with exFAT drives.  And from some testing I did, at least for USB drives, any drives 16GB or smaller will get formatted by default in FAT32 format.  Anything lager will get format as exFAT which will overcome the 4GB file size limitation (which is an FAT32 filesystem limitation and not a Buzz limitation).  And they also greatly improved the exFAT detection/recognition which was an issue.

So don't go overboard just yet on filling up the NVMe drive.  Wait till the next update, so you can then reformat it, and it should hopefully address the issues.

 

 

 

Any updates on when this firmware is coming out? Not pushing, just asking. 

(The following is just general information that may be useful to someone, not looking for any support here)

Since I have been waiting to fill up my NVME drive, I had time to experiment with an off brand 4TB NVME drive, I know not officially certified to use/work, but I was bored and nothing to loose. It recognized the drive with no problem and I tried formatted as external first. Well it seemed to do something but then kicked me out right back to my home screen. Went back into settings and it listed the drive but said safely ejected. To know avail could I see/use this drive as external. So I used my laptop and erased that volume and put it back in my P6 and tried formatting as internal. Well this ended up working well. It formatted and acts exactly like it is supposed to. It works just like my 2TB Samsung drive does, meaning it has the same issues as previously noted. But anyway I am keeping that drive in as internal for now until new firmware comes out and will see how things work then and will decide which drive I will keep in at that time and wether it will be internal or external.

[Emporium]

As mentioned in another thread last week, it is presently in Release Candidate, so hopefully it will be soon.  There is no ECD or fixed date.

https://stbtalk.com/topic/14321-update/#findComment-36856

 

Edited November 18 by Emporium