Midco MiniTivo boxes
We have three of their mini TiVo (android TV) boxes and they seem to be more trouble than they’re worth anymore.
Storage: you can’t have all of your streaming apps on them without “running out of space”. We’ve fixed this with smart TVs for the apps, but use the TiVo boxes for local TV and DVR. The last time it happened, the suggestion was a factory reset and reinstall the apps.
Buffering: Lately we’ve had to reboot our machines several times a day. Most often has been during World Cup games. And yes our home WiFi is working fine and have restarted our router and modem as a test but any other device on our network can stream content without an issue.
“Not connected to internet” messages at random. Again, no issue with WiFi but the mini boxes will “forget” they’re connected. Manually disconnecting and reconnecting or just waiting for the box to figure it out seems to be the solution.
If any other device on our network was this unreliable, we would have replaced it by now.