WiiM Home TV app Now Available for Android

We're thrilled to announce that the WiiM Home TV app has officially launched on Android TV! You can seeing what's playing on WiiM devices on big screens using a TV that has access to the Android Play Store. The WiiM Home TV app has basic playback controls and browsing, though it's not a full replacement for a mobile device.

Download the WiiM Home TV app today and elevate your home entertainment! Get it here: WiiM Home TV on Android TV

Let us know what you think! Your feedback helps us keep improving. Happy streaming!

 

[castalla]

A slightly larger font size would be welcome.

 

[Scot191]

One for the developers, as well as the album art it would be nice to have some narrative on the band scrolling on the screen, one of my mates has a volumino rivo+ streamer which has this feature I find it interesting.
I have been running the WiiM screen app over the last couple of days, here's some feedback 1) yesterday I saw the app go black for a couple of seconds, this repeated randomly throughout the day. However not seen it happen so far today
2) one big freeze up, songs and small screen moved on, but TV screen just froze. That took a complete reboot of WiFi to fix. I could navigate the app with a remote and looked under devices but saw nothing there, it looked like it couldn't see my WiiM Ultra

 

[castalla]

One for the developers, as well as the album art it would be nice to have some narrative on the band scrolling on the screen, one of my mates has a volumino rivo+ streamer which has this feature I find it interesting.
I have been running the WiiM screen app over the last couple of days, here's some feedback 1) yesterday I saw the app go black for a couple of seconds, this repeated randomly throughout the day. However not seen it happen so far today
2) one big freeze up, songs and small screen moved on, but TV screen just froze. That took a complete reboot of WiFi to fix. I could navigate the app with a remote and looked under devices but saw nothing there, it looked like it couldn't see my WiiM Ultra

No to scrolling artist info

 

[Scot191]

No to scrolling artist info

Each to their own, maybe they can be really clever and make it optional

 

[castalla]

Each to their own, maybe they can be really clever and make it optional

If you use Lyrion (LMS) then you can install the Music & Artists information plugin to get details of the artist plus lyrics

 

[hgo58]

Hi Hammer66,

We will reproduce the issue on Android 10. Please note that the official version 1.0 has a known issue where it fails to discover devices when your TV is connected to Ethernet. We have uploaded a new version to address this issue, and it is currently under review by Google Play.

Version 1.1 was working for some time but today it has stopped working on Ethernet again. It doesn't find the WiiMs and is crashing if I select the "Devices".

It works ok if on WiFi only.

Anyone seeing the same?

 

[Mr Ee]

Version 1.1 was working for some time but today it has stopped working on Ethernet again. It doesn't find the WiiMs and is crashing if I select the "Devices".

It works ok if on WiFi only.

Anyone seeing the same?

That's all it's ever done for me on ethernet.
But I can wait for the next (next) version.

 

[hgo58]

That's all it's ever done for me on ethernet.
But I can wait for the next (next) version.

Actually if I start it on WiFi and it finds the WiiMs, I can reconnect the Ethernet and it continues to work. So it's only a discovery issue.

 

[HansD-NL]

It occurred to me that this discovery problem can (partly) be an issue with some routers, without diving in to technical terms, not correctly "talking" to its WIFI and Ethernet side of the internal network.

 

[Mike in NY]

Version 1.1 was working for some time but today it has stopped working on Ethernet again. It doesn't find the WiiMs and is crashing if I select the "Devices".

It works ok if on WiFi only.

Anyone seeing the same?

Everything seems to be working as normal for me on v1.1 with WiiM Ultra and Google TV Streamer (4K) both connected via Ethernet.

 

[hgo58]

Everything seems to be working as normal for me on v1.1 with WiiM Ultra and Google TV Streamer (4K) both connected via Ethernet.

Maybe the build in Google TV in my Sony Bravia TV is causing the issue?

It did actually work first time I tested it but not today. So a bit random.

 

[HansD-NL]

Maybe the build in Google TV in my Sony Bravia TV is causing the issue?

It did actually work first time I tested it but not today. So a bit random.

I hope that your problem gets sorted eventually. Still I think that Sony's integration of Google TV is the best in the business from all tv's sold in Europe.

 

[Mike in NY]

Maybe the build in Google TV in my Sony Bravia TV is causing the issue?

It did actually work first time I tested it but not today. So a bit random.

That could very well be the issue, though I think we had seen another member here with 2 older Sony TVs that were running Android 9 and 10 respectively, and things were working for him after the v1.1 TV app update at last report.

My Google TV Streamer is the latest version of that device, running Android TV OS 14, with Android TV OS Build UTTK.250305.003, Kernel version 5.15.170.

 

[Mike in NY]

I hope that your problem gets sorted eventually. Still I think that Sony's integration of Google TV is the best in the business from all tv's sold in Europe.

I agree, Sony's Android TV integration on the U.S. models is also excellent, average non-technically oriented people seem to have no trouble in using it.

 

[hgo58]

That could very well be the issue, though I think we had seen another member here with 2 older Sony TVs that were running Android 9 and 10 respectively, and things were working for him after the v1.1 TV app update at last report.

My Google TV Streamer is the latest version of that device, running Android TV OS 14, with Android TV OS Build UTTK.250305.003, Kernel version 5.15.170.

Mine is kernel 4.9, so from 2023. No updates after that.

The issue is only when discovering devices on Ethernet. When initially found via WiFi I can switch back to Ethernet. So no major issue. Just a bit annoying.