I ordered Vero 2 on 31.12. I also misunderstood announcement and I though Android will be there from the beginning. In February, it was “will be soon”. Now is end of May, there were couple of promises in the meantime…
I donated to project twice and then bought Vero 2 which is far from cheap. I went through so many headaches when OSMC was young and even before OSMC. My family suffered patiently when things did not work or stopped working during a playback.
Two weeks ago I bought Amazon TV Stick, I think it was $59 or such. It has built in Netflix and Amazon Prime application. I sideloaded Kodi for Android. I have the same as Vero 2 promised at a much lower price. Also without those many problems you see over the forum all the time. CEC worked from the beginning as well. I am keeping OSMC on Raspi2 as it is not so heavily used and getting rid of Vero 2. Sad story…
I am sorry that you are unhappy. Android has taken longer than expected, because we are planning to have Android boot off the SD card, instead of the internal storage to allow switching between OSMC and Android from the remote.
On 5th April you reported that CEC was working, so I thought that it was addressed. If this is not the case, then I will gladly revisit this for you.
Which problems are you experiencing? Remember that Amazon Fire does not have a ‘forum’, and people generally only visit the OSMC Forum when they have an issue. There are a lot of users plodding along happily, but they don’t have much to post about. The same applies even in the Raspberry Pi category. There are hundreds of thousands of Pi users, yet a handful of users reporting freezing remains top of the forum. With that said – all issues are important to us, and certainly to me.
I don’t believe this is the case.
- No proper audio passthrough
- No proper refresh rate switching
- No H265 support
- No Debian OS (for expansion).
I can go on. Ultimately the right device for you will depend on your needs, but I think you should appreciate that we are just getting started with the Vero 2. We are continually improving the device. If you let us know what the ‘problems’ are, we can surely put them right. The Vero 2 offers a lot more than a Fire Stick, but it’s not for everyone.
Sam
Sam,
yes, you are right, there are features which are better on Vero, they are just not important to my use case. Sorry, I generalized too much. Passthrough is for sure important for some, x265 will be in near future. Maybe I will keep Vero around when that times comes.
CEC - yes, it works for some time now, I was pointing out it was not working out of the box correctly and it took some time to be resolved. There were other issues which were solved in threads started by other users.
You may remember the discussion we had about video file which worked on Rpi and many other platforms and not on Vero because it had some issues how it was coded. But as that source is used by thousands of people and people who code it are not changing it I assume othes don’t have that problem, only I have it on Vero.
Things like that. I appreciate there are many users who use Vero happily, I am not trying to send them away. And as I said I will be using OSMC on Rpi still, I have no issues there, it is stable and working for a long time.
Hi
Unfortunately we can’t test every TV. You also have to realise that some TVs and AVRs seemingly ignore the CEC spec (LG). But when a customer raises an issue, we work around such problems, and we resolve it for them. If there are outstanding issues with CEC, we are happy to look in to them. I think we’ve fixed existing problems in a timely manner.
We fixed that video. I also checked that video, and it was nuked, because whomever encoded it did so incorrectly. You can learn what that means here. It’s true that our hardware decoder didn’t handle out of spec videos well, but this has been fixed and now even less than stellar uploads by some ‘scenes’ are now fixed. A nuked video is quite serious in the scene – it means it’s crap…
I think it would be better to write in this post what isn’t working on V2. Then we can fix it ;).
Sam