help needed buying XBMC box

[Fergie73]

i now have the total droidsticks set up in a zip file

dont know if im allowed to attach to a post

anyone that needs it drop me a pm with your email address

[Bobby Bouché]

Anyone bought from here?

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/XBMC-...956743437.html

[Fergie73]

m8 arrived...rapid delivery

very nice box, smooth, fast, reliable

[Nathz29]

I've got a Linx 7 coming for Christmas. I've also been trying the droidsticks M8 since Saturday and it works really well. The wizard is superb - ideal for someone who doesn't know how to manage addons (not me, I've used xbmc for years). I'm not really sure the android part will ever get used. I've found some M8 style boxes on alibaba (Ali express) with Linux based xbmc which work out to about £35ish.

Staples got deals on the 7 and 10 inch linx tablets the 7 inch works out at 20 quid after cash back

[Larrylakes]

They've sold out of the 10 inch. Apparently if you buy one from any number of retailers you can trade an old tablet at tablet trade up and get up to £50 back.

[TAR]

Anyone bought from here?

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/XBMC-...956743437.html

I would like to know this too. It's £29.

Is the M8 better than this guys? I currently have Apple TV 1 and want a new toy to play with.

[beansontoast]

I've picked out two similar ones on aliexpress for the same money and am waiting for a post office credit card to order them with - no charge for foreign currency. In my experience the China shipping takes a few weeks, any other method incurs import duty which is usually small compared with the duty paying charge of the shipping company.

The M8 is very good. There was a similar supplier to droidsticks selling them for £60 in an Amazon Lightning deal yesterday.

[trueblue924]

cant be doing with my fire tv anymore the xbmc just keeps crashing hola wont work as i cant root it so decided to have a punt on this seems a stupid price for a box like this less than a tenner dont know if it will be any good http://www.aliexpress.com/item/RKM-M...258729541.html

[corskey]

cant be doing with my fire tv anymore the xbmc just keeps crashing hola wont work as i cant root it so decided to have a punt on this seems a stupid price for a box like this less than a tenner dont know if it will be any good http://www.aliexpress.com/item/RKM-M...258729541.html

i think it was a stupid price - seems that they are now $155 on aliexpress - hope you got one

[Fergie73]

I would like to know this too. It's £29.

Is the M8 better than this guys? I currently have Apple TV 1 and want a new toy to play with.

ive had both and would definately rate the m8 higher

the droidsticks setup is superb, albeit a little bloated

everything just works on the m8, and you get a lifetime of fixes and updates via their wizard

also the remote with the cheaper box is dire

[Bobby Bouché]

cant be doing with my fire tv anymore the xbmc just keeps crashing hola wont work as i cant root it so decided to have a punt on this seems a stupid price for a box like this less than a tenner dont know if it will be any good http://www.aliexpress.com/item/RKM-M...258729541.html

Surprised your having problems mate. Two of my mates have it and no crashing or problems at all.

[trueblue924]

Could be my setup its a UK one so last time I looked couldnt be rooted and had problems just crashing xbmc but it is my first box like this, so could be my setup as I am very new to xbmc, did get one of those boxes for a tenner so lets see of they arrive

[jamesbond007]

OK i didn't bother buying a xbmc box i just used my Google nexus tablet and used chrome cast to watch movies or football

[cbrookes]

I must admit I like the M8 from droidsticks but how do you update the wizard or am I being silly?


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[Fergie73]

I must admit I like the M8 from droidsticks but how do you update the wizard or am I being silly?


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go to video addons/droidstickswizard then select the m8 bit(second from the left)....let it update then take the power lead out and back in

[cbrookes]

go to video addons/droidstickswizard then select the m8 bit(second from the left)....let it update then take the power lead out and back in

Thanks, I have done that but didn't know if it's the version they put on it or does it always download the latest?


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[beansontoast]

Read their RSS feed and follow them on Twitter, they will say when you need to run the wizard again in the future.

[Fergie73]

also the scrolling feed at the bottom of the main page of xbmc tells you the date of the latest update

oops...i take it that is the rss feed

[cbrookes]

So I take it running the wizard automatically downloads the latest version?


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[Fergie73]

So I take it running the wizard automatically downloads the latest version?


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it forces updates and any fix's that are needed