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Just tried to run Channels on Window 11 using the Amazon provided Android app (paid version of course), and sadly it does not work. Firstly the Android subsystem overall is slow (despite plenty of memory and a 5950X), but opening up any channel to watch whether SD or HD, it shows 1 frame and then freezes. I should add that I don't use the DVR functionality or even subscribe to it.
Has anyone else managed to get things working under WIndows? I hate the Silicon Dust app and really prefer Channels. I've also paid yet again for the app so keen to try and get things working so any tips/hints would be much appreciated.
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You have more than enough system. Check this setting:
/playback/advanced/video decoder
You must select software. This is probably your problem
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Downloader by AFTVnews dose not appear to be in the Amazon App Store. Any other suggestions how to side load?
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I have the same problem testing it on my new Windows 11 PC
If https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N0BP507 doesn't work, have you tried the other methods (adb or GUI helpers)?
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ADB sideloading did not work would not connect as WAS has it's own IP.
I installed a Version of WAS from Github that Includes the google play store. I was surprised it play on the Ace Magician mini PC. N95
Thank you,
I took your lead with a deferent approach and installed BlueStacks.
Download Pie 64-bit (Supports Hyper-V)
It requires Hyper-V and thus Windows Perfectional
After installing, if you get into a loop where it's trying to enable Hyper-V, Right click and chose run as administrator.
While the Google Play Store is available, it did not find Channels. Open Chrome and search from there and it will find channels. Install from there. After you launch channels, you will need to change the playback method. /settings/playback/advanced Chose Software.
Enjoy!
Morris
Wow, two fairly awful choices. Installing something from Amazon. Which I won't do. And bluestacks which acts a lot like malware. UGH
How dose bluestacks act like malware?
It was my perception of odd things that started happening after I installed it a few months ago. Two weeks into it I uninstalled it and the odd apps that had acted wonky and the internet speeds went back to normal. When I had put wireshark on it I found we starting contacting hundreds of addresses which were in listed as being in russia and other asian countries I try not to frequent. After that I determined it wasn't something I wanted installed on my pc. -Bill
You can side load the apk without Amazon or blue stacks involved.
I have not found a reasonable way to sideload into Win 11 Android. All the apps that make it easy are now blocked.
That sounds like there was some malware installed. Not my experience and I'm sorry to learn that happed to you Bill.
I was able to sidelode Channels onto the Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) using:
- Download APK from Channels server to my local download directory.
- Share local download directory with the WSA using Advanced Settings, Experimental.
- Installed File Manager for FireTV (developed by Dworks) from the Amazon AppStore.
- Selected APK in the File Manager and install the listed APK.
The Microsoft Store also lists some WSA Sideloader apps, that may also work for this purpose. But I didn't try them. I also sideloded the Channels recommended Downloader app from AFTV, hopefully making it easier to sideload other APKs if desired.
The Channels app seems to work very well for me using WSA. But I don't use it often, mainly just for testing.
That's great Michael and thank you. File Manager for FireTV is new to me. When did you do this and is that utility still available? Amazon removed multiple side loaders and what lead me to switching from WSA to Blue Stacks, a product I'd been using for years on Windows 10. The nice thing about using Blue Stacks is that it includes the Google Play Store. They actually want you to be able to use there product. WSA is the most un-Android like Android implementation I've used. Microsoft has invested a lot of time and money making it work differently, a total waste of there time and ours.
Today, it is still available in the Amazon Appstore. But you are right many of the more common file managers are not available.
I am very cautious about installing major system changes that may not be approved by Microsoft. Especially since, I don't really need to run any Android app on my PC.
Blue Stacks is a VM and hypervisor. It doesn't change windows. Very little of what we install is approved by Microsoft. Drivers used to be yet the Windows Computability Lab was retired and the tools provided to developers. Microsoft no longer gets involved with such critical components till on causes a very high number of crashes that show up on there scoreboard and then all they do is notify the manufacture.
I am rereading info on Windows Subsystem for Android. Is this something built by Amazon or by Windows? Seems like its from Amazon. But I did find something on ZDnet that said this: For nearly a decade, Microsoft product planners have been chasing a dream of running Android apps on Windows. Last June, as part of the announcement of Windows 11, the company went public with its intentions. And as of February 2022, those plans have coalesced into a shipping feature. So maybe it is from Microsoft? -Bill
It's a Microsoft implementation of Android, without the Play Store from Google. If you install the subsystem first, Microsoft instructs you to install the Amazon Appstore to get apps. Alternatively, if you install the Amazon Appstore from the Microsoft Store, in the process you wind up with the Android subsystem too. Microsoft likely has some sort of profit-sharing arrangement with Amazon.