So annoying and other than missing Android TV apps and lack of Dolby Vision support, the only real beef I have with the SHIELD. Weve read professional NAS reviews on CNET, PCMag, PCWorld. I don't want to have to turn on my gaming rig to have its Plex server feed the SHIELD (I'll sometimes not turn it on at all for days while working on laptop or mobile devices), so it's a PITA to have to dig with other apps, but until Nvidia bothers to patch their broken code, I'm SOL. Server on a computer or on an Nvidia Shield TV and using the NAS for media storage. on my SHIELD can see the drive via UPnP and even SMB - Kodi, VLC, whatever - but Plex can't because you need to map the external drive thru the Mount External Storage method which is broken as noted. Im mainly streaming 4k content and since Im using the nvidia shield pro Im only using direct play, nothing is transcoded, made sure by setting up tautulli too and checking multiple streams with multiple settings that it was always using. You can't rename the shares without hacking the drive's Linux config which is highly technical for non-uber-nerds and if you screw it up, you lose your data, defeating the purpose of a backup drive.Įvery. Im looking into setting up a nas to not have to have my pc on all day and save a little on electricity. This can be useful if you have a large amount of personal media shared on a network you would like to access on your SHIELD TV (e.g., PLEX Media Server) To add a NAS: Select Settings > Device Preferences > Storage > Network storage.

This has been a known issue for a year and Nvidia simply DGAF about fixing it so users like me are SOL. Your SHIELD TV device can add Network Addressable Storage (NAS) devices. I have wasted MANY HOURS trying to map my SHIELD TV to my Seagate GoFlex Home network drive and it simply doesn't work because Nvidia's completely broken implementation of SMB protocol and its inability to cope with shares with spaces in their name which, unfortunately, is what Seagate did.

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