#Samba interactive tv on philips Bluetooth#

I can also plug in a Bluetooth USB adapter on my USB hub to listen via Bluetooth on the couch to the TV. Instead of the Steam Link I could even just run a HDMI cable straight from computer. The caveat is that my smart devices, although wired, are currently NOT on a VLAN, and that Chromecast is a data resource for Google, and as I mentioned the EPG data on the TV contains commercials. Then again, I got a 8 port gbit switch for connectivity and barely any wires visible. I find on all of these wired far more reliable, and I keep more bandwidth for my wireless applications. Advantage to that is that I am allowed to skip ads on local recordings (if I use remote recordings though, only on public broadcast TV, and they only last for a week).Ĭhromecast is basically a smart TV on a stick, controlled with a remote from smartphone (and partly, even the remote control of the TV). So I just use my settopbox to watch & record. Using Netflix native on it, goes quicker than via Chromecast. My Philips start TV can connect wired or wireless. That I could just plug this into any display panel, including dumb displays.

#Samba interactive tv on philips install#

I really wish that provided a TV box that was the full Android TV, but that was vanilla Google with the ability to install as apps. But when and other content providers decline the use of their apps outside of integrated devices this is the hell we live in. Ideally you run a TV on a different VLAN.Īnd this is where I wish that dumb panels were all the rage, and that the only 'smart' functionality was external to the display itself. And that all other devices best require passwords to connect to them. This is a good time to say that if you own a 'Smart TV' from any company you should run it on a different network than your NAS and other computers. use Android system settings to disable the app. don't agree to their T&Cs post OS upgrade. Samba is not a feature for you, it is a snitch in your living room, snitching on everything you watch on your TV, it's a feature for corporations only.

#Samba interactive tv on philips update#

If you have a 'Smart TV' from any brand and it's doing an update you will 100% want to disable Samba. but it is also used to 'Detect, investigate and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities and protect the rights, safety and property of Samba and others' This information is then used to market to you within the TV and offer you a 'hot list'. this is worse than recent stuff.įrom their own privacy policy: … they track what you watch, when you watch it, your location, your interactions with other apps. My 'smart' TV has updated itself and tried to force me to use a new app from and boy oh boy. I'm the author and linking to my tweets is a bad idea because they auto-delete after 14 days.įor future HN context, as the author I'm reproducing them here in full: