I want this, but can't justify it since we already have a roku on every tv in the house. We have antennas on two tvs. Not too hard to switch between sources.
@boygenius1991 Apparently from reading the reviews- nothing very well.
On the other hand- Roku or Chromecast will both allow you to view movies and TV shows sourced from the internet without the requirement of a cable-TV hook up or Cable-box.
The point is to get off of the cable-TV $$ drain and just have broadband internet and off the air TV.
This promises to do that [including adding in the antenna signal as another channel], but [by what I have read briefly] at a much lower level of ease and polish.
@boygenius1991 If you have a display without a tuner and limited HDMI inputs, such as a monitor or projector, and you want to watch over the air TV as well as streaming content without fiddling with changing cables all the time, this device might allow you to do that.
Given the reviews, though, I'd suggest it's not worth the effort.
@PhysAssist The original Nintendo Wii does Amazon Instant, Hulu Plus, Netflix, YouTube, probably more, and uses the standard RCA Video+Left/Right. Plus it plays tons of classic games. Buy preowned from GameStop or just ask on facebook if a friend will sell/give you one.
@RuanCaiman I used to use our Wii and just note that the 'apps' it uses were very rarely updated and most ran much slower than even my smart Blueray player's apps. Especially the Hulu app. Just my own experience.
here's what one reviewer said "This product has been discontinued by manufacture due to poor product assembly poor sales poor customer support which is no good at all" listed at $26 on there. 1.3 star reviewed. i'd say burn all of what you have meh, send them to the blendtec guy for our entertainment
I was tempted for a second just to buy it for a keyboard, because I could use a nice small Bluetooth one to talk to my Amazon Fire Stick. But meh, this keyboard is RF only.
@notyoutoo there's a fire tv app for android (not sure if there's one for iPhone) that lets you use the phone as a keyboard/remote. Works pretty well, actually.
@cinoclav@kmakato hey guys yeah, I've tried Wukong Remote. It works fine, but requires you're on the same Wifi network as the Fire Stick. I wanted a more self-contained solution for when I'm at a hotel using their Wifi. Although now that I think about it it's not that hard to get my phone on the hotel Wifi, so now I'm trying to remember why I really wanted a small BT keyboard/mouse. Oh right, because I'm a big gadget nerd.
If the keyboard remote is bluetooth and can connect to a standard android (kodi) box, this is a good deal. If not, I read through the forums at mohu, and it is clear this thing is dead.
Terrible (All 2) reviews on Amazon, but I mainly want it for OTA TV. I'm still using the free digital converter I got when they changed over and need something with an HDMI output. It'll also give me live pause and I'll be able to browse the web on my projector. Crossing fingers...
Would have bought this if it supported 5GHz wireless. Unfortunately google says it doesn't which makes streaming impossible in an apartment with 30+ wifi networks visible.
Ironically unlike modern Android TV devices, this actually has a functional web browser and motion control remote... too bad it's basically dead in the water.
I was on the Kickstarter for this thing. I used it for about a month. The interface had promise, but it was full of bugs and pretty unstable. The TV tuner had driver issues as well - it took Moho quite a while just to get OTA TV working on it consistently. The tuner works OK on the latest firmware, as long as you're willing to fight through the UI to actually watch TV...
If you like finicky, oval Android devices, I guess it's worth $20.
“If there is any person in the town, who feels emotion caused by this dongle’s death,” said Scrooge quite agonised, “show that person to me, Spirit, I beseech you!”
-- (paraphrased from) Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Anyone able to confirm if there is a way to root it and replace the Android software that comes on it? I want something outside of the tablet/phone world to try some things out on.
what are the physical dimensions of the dongle and the keyboard? I need a 'not included' hairy hand holding it for perspective. It kind of looks like the keyboard is the size of a small tv remote, which would make those keys hard to press for someone with fat fingers.
I want a device that allows me to browse my network server using the file structure similar to the way my PS3 did it. The PS4 does not read directory structure. Does this do that?
In for 3...if this thing is anything close to the cheap MXQ box I got from China then I'm thrilled. TVMC will be the only app I'll need for this thing.
The problem with this is that it only connects via HDMI. if a TV has HDMI then it (1) can work with Roku, Chromecast, etc.., and (2) most likely has an ATSC over-the-air digital tuner. This dongle is best suited for TV's that pre-date HDMI that someone wants to put to use. If this used component inputs you could use it on a ton of pre-ATSC tuner TVs and make them "smart" - that would be worth something. With it only working on HDMI-capable TV's you've virtually ensured its irrelevance.
@danblondell Agreed! Even the android tv boxes coming from China at 2x the price worried me simply due to the lack of support. Sure, they can be a fun project to play around with, but I need plug-n-play functionality right out of the box! I worry about how good the wifi is with these boxes. Interesting that they did sell as many as I thought they might. 😛
@Kerig3 well if the wifi is anything like the wifi on those craig smart tv adapters meh suckered me into a while back then it pretty much sucks dong.les... hey wait a sec mehybe @mehcus will let me trade in the craig adapter for this one?! :)
@Thumperchick I think more like dongle envy... just imagine how I would have felt when everyone was in a new thread talking about all the things they are doing with their dongles.
Argh, bring this back Meh - I would have bought this! I have an old Panasonic plasma I use with an OTA antenna and it has the least sensitive tuner in it imaginable. Being able to get OTA signal the TV with an HDMI output would be fantastic!
Well, I got one for the tuner, and it's pretty sweet except for one problem: The video is hosed up. Their's weird off color artifacts all over the place, like a certain subtle color is replaced with pink. It seems to get worse as it warms up. I tried swapping HDMI cords and TV ports and the problem follows the MOHU. My cheap POS tuner this MOHU replaced looks fine. What do I do Meh?
@bonkey Ruh-roh. Same here. Black disappears and all I see is fuchsia. Hope there's a fix because (except for the expected awkwardness of air-mousing) it's just the thing I needed. Like John Lydon sang "no fuchsia for me."
I am not meh, well I am meh but I don't work for them... however.... I would go to the "my orders" page and then click on the button labeled "I need help with this" next to the order for the Mohu, and then let them know what is happening.
@thismyusername Thanks! Done. This will be interesting to see how Meh handles my (and others) MOHU problems. Resellerratings has Meh at 10/10 (and Woot at less than 1/10). Fingers crossed!
I bought 3 of them...and wish I would have bought more! I absolutely love it so far! It had a few glitches (took a while to install the firmware update)...nothing that a few pulls of the power cord didn't fix. I now have this running with TVMC and Kodi...and have pure TV watching goodness. This thing doesn't constantly disconnect from my internet like the cheap China POS that I got a few weeks ago. These will replace every Roku I have because they offer a world more of apps. The only con that I found was that I couldn't find a way to bypass the crazy guide interface and go directly into the android OS guts of it...but I haven't looked too hard. The guide is nice...once I learned that the down arrow on the far right changes channels even if I'm in an app (user error). I've installed Netfix, TVMC, Kodi all without problems. I've also installed ES FileExplorer to handle the downloading and sideloading of apps. I'm glad this came with sideloading enabled...or that would have been a hassle to fix. It only got like 4 or 5 OTA channels...but I haven't really placed the antenna in an optimal place yet. For the price...I like it just for the android features. Count me in for more next time!
@michaellindahl Hopefully you have better luck with the update. The first time it rebooted into recovery and just hung there. After a cord pull and a retry...it finally took. It's definitely a glitchy device. Having owned my fair share of Android devices...it's average to what you'd expect for the price. At least it comes with the Google play store!
Mine has severe issues, have spent over five hours today messing with it (I know, I should have gave up long ago - but I really wanted it to work) - called Mohu and 2 different reps over 2 separate calls said they 1) don't sell the item to third parties, 2) it is no longer available from them (discontinued), and stressed emphatically 3) I "could not have possibly bought it in new condition."
I tell ya, I just love being called a liar.
Sent email to CS here at Meh but did not get the usual email reply back stating they got my message?
@justbuyit they totally took your $20 and are now running to the Bahamas to live in luxury!!!!
(Give them some time, they have a backlog I suspect due to the Great Crock Pot Catastrophe of 2015)
Did you send a random email out of the blue? If you didn't include the order number consider going to your orders page and clicking on the "I Need Help With This" button under the mohu order.
@thismyusername I knew it! They're living high off the damn hog on my $20, I just didn't know I needed to look for them in the Bahamas, I figured that they'd be holed up somewhere in South America, most likely in a seedy brothel. Thanks for the tip! I'll book my flight tonight to go looking for them. At least it is an excuse to fly to the Bahamas!
Yes, I sent the inquiry from the order page, yes, they're backed up like a septic system in desperate need of Rid-X (@hollboll sent me a message about something else entirely this afternoon addressing an issue from last week, which fixed itself - USPS, go figure!). Yes, I'll wait patiently to hear back from them. Just thought it was a little weird not to get the standard auto-reply when I sent the inquiry from the web form.
Well, I'm really terribly upset that I got a wonderfully kind and most helpful reply from customer service today that took care of the issue I was having. Come to find out, they are not in the Bahamas living high off the hog on my $20. They're still in Texas. Which sucks if you're them, I suppose (versus the Bahamas). I totally would have fled the country on that money.
@LankHairdoo I believe that you will have much better luck contacting Mohu support now that certain issues have been called to their attention / ironed out. If Meh says contact Mohu, that's definitely the path I would follow.
Just got my Mohu Channels. It looks and feels really awesome. I haven't figured out how to record shows yet. I'm also experiencing extreme issues with it/my projector. The projector keeps switching between the signal from the mohu and "signal processing, please wait." This has nothing to do with the antenna as this appears on the guide/setting/etc. The image from the Mohu is also really poor. I'm experiencing a lot of flickering, where I see the whole image there's just flickering of black horizontal bars in varying heights. The image also appears to condense near the bottom by 2% every so often. I'm assuming that the quality of image that the Mohu is sending is either really poor/variable or I've got a defective unit :/ Not sure which it is. Going to try with a traditional TV later this week.
@michaellindahl I don't believe it records shows...I believe it will only pause/timeshift shows from the reviews I read. A lot of people panned this device because it misses the capability to record.
@michaellindahl It doesn't have this connection issue with the traditional TV I tried, I'm going to have to do additional device testing. My projector is the Acer H5380BD
posting this from mohu. keyboard stinks. hit an arrow and lost focus on reply box, whn i clicked back in it reply went away.
Mine works fine so far. found out the old living room tv was 720p only, but ive been meaning to switch so i did. tuner gets all the channels i got before, some are skippybut my antenna is basically laying on a windowsill. guide is neat. can check meh. 7/10 would buy again at this price for bedroom tv as well .
I think the keyboard is what makes this device worth the price! It not only gives you point and shoot mouse capability similar to a wii remote, it also allows you to type using the keys. Anyone who has used an Android box (or Roku or Fire Stick) knows the pain of typing in search boxes without a keyboard! I know you can always "just talk" to a Fire stick and have it search for you...but that search capability only works with the Amazon Prime app...so there's that. I wish the processor in the Mohu were a little better. It freezes up sometimes (maybe the buffer is full?) and won't do hardware acceleration on Kodi...had to switch it to software acceleration to get it to play video. I've watched numerous movies without losing Ethernet connection...which is way better than the MXQ box it replaced!
@gallogj You're right. The keyboard is far better than any arrow-select onscreen keyboard arrangement for something like searching for a movie title or logging into your account. I only became frustrated with it when trying to be verbose on the forum. In general, for TV-type activities, it's definitely a plus.
@cranky1950 I guess they were too busy being user centric to design this for the 30 or 40% of the population that is infirm. My kid has no trouble using the keyboard, I cannot keep the cursor on the smaller buttons long enough to select anything. Guess thats why it made its way to MEH
Mine was working fine until I upgraded the firmware. After the firmware upgrade, it is stuck at an (empty) Guide window. The window flashes every second or so (re-loading the guide again).
If I try to move to something else (such as the settings window) it will sometimes switch for 0.5 seconds, and then automatically move me back to the blank guide (keeping me from doing anything useful such as resetting the device).
I tried alt-enter to put it to sleep, and it looked like it went to sleep (for 1 second) and then jumped back awake right to the guide.....
@summetj I Know this is a long shot, but mine just did this after a firmware upgrade too. I found it a few weeks ago and started using it as a kodi box. Then decided to upgrade the firmware, cause why not. Well that was dumb and I can’t get out of this damn loop. If anyone figured out how to fix this please share!!
@naveednn Never fixed the one with the bricked firmware, but Meh had sent me a replacement. I’ve since stopped using it (they are crap, after all) and replaced it with a Roku. If you paypal me $6 for postage I’ll ship my working one to you in a USPS small flat rate box.
I've been playing with these on my day off. It's flawed, but still very cool. That $20 would cover the HDMI cable at an electronics store. A little more development would have revolutionized cord cutting. A collaboration between Roku and Mohu would annihilate every other streaming device!
Overall, the tuner is the best part, and the Android functionality is a nice bonus. It's supplementing my Rokus, but not replacing them only due to two issues: Amazon Instant Video and Plex. Both are there, but Plex playback is choppy and Amazon videos won't load (d/t intentional crippling by Amazon no doubt). Netflix works well. Sling TV can be choppy, though it's nice to have another way to watch Sling when the Roku sling app bombs out (Sling is buggy everywhere).
Regarding that tuner, I used one of these to replace an old Samsung HD tuner hooked up to an old rear projection TV we have in a bonus room. That old tuner was the size of a VCR and only went as high as 1080i. The on screen guide took ages to load. This thing is faster and better all around. An HDMI broadcast tuner for $20 is insane, no matter how crappy the Android stuff is. Count me among those who wish they bought more.
Using it just as a tuner, my only gripe is the dependence on the proprietary remote. I like using universal remotes, but none support this. Had development continued I'm sure an app would have been released, but now we can just play around with these things and think of what might have been.
If anyone gets fed up and contemplates throwing it out a window or trashing it, let me know. I'll take it!
Update: compared to Roku, Netflix on this sucks, because it's throttled to 480p. Sling TV works, but lacks the on -demand functionality that the Roku app has. Amazon Prime doesn't work at all. Plex doesn't work well. But none of that matters, because unlike a Roku, this works with Kodi! A Kodi box that's also a TV tuner, for $20? And I only bought 2?
@thismyusername Forget the Android apps. Just download Kodi, then get all your apps within Kodi. YouTube and Netflix within Kodi are 1080p, plus you'll have access to nearly limitless HD content. I'd save the Mohu channel guide area for actual TV channels, direct streaming from the web, the Kodi app, and any apps not available within Kodi.
Specs
Condition: New
Warranty: 90 Day Meh
Estimated Delivery: 12/14 - 12/17
Shipping: $5 or free with VMP
What’s in the Box?
1x Mohu device
1x Keyboard remote control
4x AAA batteries
1x HDMI cable
1x Power adapter
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The product
Everything included
Guide and setup menu
Ports
Keyboard
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More like meh ready
Why does this keyboard come with paper towels?
@darksaber99999 because they are on a roll ...
Heh heh heh...you said dongle.
@jsimsace Dongle-icious!
@jsimsace giggedy.
Just bought a Chromecast for $20......naw.
@eeterrific Where?
@PhysAssist Probably a refurbished original Chromecast from Best Buy.
FWIW, I have both gen 1 and a new gen 2 Chromecast. The gen 2 is MUCH snappier. It's worth the full $35 if you can't find one discounted IMO.
@PhysAssist Walmart black Friday...gen 2;
@eeterrific Crud, another BF sale I missed [I was working at my Urgent Care office.]
Can it be rooted / upgraded? I'd like to try an alternative OS on something like this.
@eblade Same here!
@eblade I supported this thing back in the kickstarter days, AFAIK It's running Android/a Modified version
@eblade probably not if you want support for the digital tuner or rf remote
Another meh POS. Get a Chromecast and not some flaky junky overcomplicated... dongle.
Got a fire stick and a roku..meh pass
@jml326 Yup, me too. Just got a Fire Stick.
@lichme thanks Ron...right back at ya bro.
at first I thought it was a keyboard and a flask
@somf69 I'd be interested in that...
For all keyed up board people
I want this, but can't justify it since we already have a roku on every tv in the house. We have antennas on two tvs. Not too hard to switch between sources.
I don't actually understand what the hell this thing does. would some kind soul care to explain like I was 50?
@boygenius1991 Apparently from reading the reviews- nothing very well.
On the other hand- Roku or Chromecast will both allow you to view movies and TV shows sourced from the internet without the requirement of a cable-TV hook up or Cable-box.
The point is to get off of the cable-TV $$ drain and just have broadband internet and off the air TV.
This promises to do that [including adding in the antenna signal as another channel], but [by what I have read briefly] at a much lower level of ease and polish.
Here are some things to take a look at: http://www.cutcabletoday.com/
and especially: http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-media-streamers/
@boygenius1991 If you have a display without a tuner and limited HDMI inputs, such as a monitor or projector, and you want to watch over the air TV as well as streaming content without fiddling with changing cables all the time, this device might allow you to do that.
Given the reviews, though, I'd suggest it's not worth the effort.
but, need audio. Most hdmi monitors lack audio.
What version of Android does this doohicky run? Most of my streaming apps require some iteration of Android from this decade.
@ruouttaurmind 4.2 "Jelly Bean" apparently
@mechcozmo Thank you for the reply and the info!
MEH- My HDMI-capable TV's have Roku, I need something for my not so new TV's. Bleh too!
@PhysAssist did you miss the roku se?
@PhysAssist The original Nintendo Wii does Amazon Instant, Hulu Plus, Netflix, YouTube, probably more, and uses the standard RCA Video+Left/Right. Plus it plays tons of classic games. Buy preowned from GameStop or just ask on facebook if a friend will sell/give you one.
@RuanCaiman Thanks!
@erthian Yup, never even saw that afore you referenced it Thanks!
@RuanCaiman I used to use our Wii and just note that the 'apps' it uses were very rarely updated and most ran much slower than even my smart Blueray player's apps. Especially the Hulu app. Just my own experience.
It's on amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Mohu-Channels-android-Streaming-Device/dp/B0148USQGC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1449205667&sr=8-1&keywords=mohu+channels
here's what one reviewer said "This product has been discontinued by manufacture due to poor product assembly poor sales poor customer support which is no good at all"
listed at $26 on there. 1.3 star reviewed. i'd say burn all of what you have meh, send them to the blendtec guy for our entertainment
i am impressed it has wifi and coax
@sp3ar you mean ethernet? the coax is for an OTA antenna... not EoC :)
I was tempted for a second just to buy it for a keyboard, because I could use a nice small Bluetooth one to talk to my Amazon Fire Stick. But meh, this keyboard is RF only.
@notyoutoo there's a fire tv app for android (not sure if there's one for iPhone) that lets you use the phone as a keyboard/remote. Works pretty well, actually.
@KMakato There's one for iPhone too. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/amazon-fire-tv-remote/id947984433?mt=8
@cinoclav @kmakato hey guys yeah, I've tried Wukong Remote. It works fine, but requires you're on the same Wifi network as the Fire Stick. I wanted a more self-contained solution for when I'm at a hotel using their Wifi. Although now that I think about it it's not that hard to get my phone on the hotel Wifi, so now I'm trying to remember why I really wanted a small BT keyboard/mouse. Oh right, because I'm a big gadget nerd.
Hey meh do you still have any TV antennas?
wow I actually backed out of the kickstarter for this....
Wonder if there is still a point to getting it?
For better understanding of what this gadget does go to that kickstarter link above in the specs.
And ponder, did this thing dead end January 2015?
I have 3 tivos, Mohu mohmeh.
Seems like a cool concept, I like the ota channel guide aspect. But the terrible reviews don't make me want to jump on it.
Who am I kidding, probably in for one anyway.
All you folks begging for AAA batteries here's your chance!
A bit pricey but you can amortize that down with the HDMI cable and semi-proprietary 5 volt power supply.
Apparently it supports XBMC! [Kodi] And let's be honest, that's why we're all here.
..right?
http://www.thestreamingadvisor.com/tag/can-you-put-kodi-on-mohu-channels/
@Chops But can Kodi utilize its OTA tuner?
Dat freaky-weird-avocado...
If the keyboard remote is bluetooth and can connect to a standard android (kodi) box, this is a good deal. If not, I read through the forums at mohu, and it is clear this thing is dead.
frankly-naughty-bedbug (no picture)
Terrible (All 2) reviews on Amazon, but I mainly want it for OTA TV. I'm still using the free digital converter I got when they changed over and need something with an HDMI output. It'll also give me live pause and I'll be able to browse the web on my projector. Crossing fingers...
@LankHairdoo Here's what you's have seen:
@PhysAssist Or if you allowed google to correct the phrase to bed bug:
Would have bought this if it supported 5GHz wireless. Unfortunately google says it doesn't which makes streaming impossible in an apartment with 30+ wifi networks visible.
@bruhaha There's always Ethernet!
Ironically unlike modern Android TV devices, this actually has a functional web browser and motion control remote... too bad it's basically dead in the water.
If you could record to thumb drive I would be in. It only says pause and rewind on the description though.
I was on the Kickstarter for this thing. I used it for about a month. The interface had promise, but it was full of bugs and pretty unstable. The TV tuner had driver issues as well - it took Moho quite a while just to get OTA TV working on it consistently. The tuner works OK on the latest firmware, as long as you're willing to fight through the UI to actually watch TV...
If you like finicky, oval Android devices, I guess it's worth $20.
@taybuch Thank you for your review.
This product sounded like it was a good idea with a half-baked execution.
IR huh... anyone know if you can use a Microsoft media center remote with it?
unexpected-trying-joke
@jimmiethesaint You're welcome:
Mehu.
Is this a speaker dock?
Or am I confused about what day this is?
@sligett It's DongleDay!
@sligett Silly, that's old meh. This is a knife!
tangible-abusive-existence. I think meh's trying to tell me something.
@mangodrink Maybe this:
is this really worth even a $. I mean it is made of stuff and all, but really... no.
This is a POS. MEH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
creepy-smiley-salamander Geez they nailed me in one.
Again, I'll take "Things I Don't Want" for $20 Alex.
I really would like to feel good about my purchase but I'm nervous. Is there anywhere I can go to see reviews
@arrykka Yep, here is a link to a Lifehacker article that explains their experience with the product, hell we even linked to it in our writeup today.
@MEHcus Bah, like anyone actually reads the writeups. We're all just here for the pictures...
“If there is any person in the town, who feels emotion caused by this dongle’s death,” said Scrooge quite agonised, “show that person to me, Spirit, I beseech you!”
-- (paraphrased from) Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
I bought one to use with the projector in theater room to get OTA channels using Antenna. Cheaper than getting a stand-alone TV tuner.
@narahari How did it work?
I want it for my Fios Tv Android app.
Any chance this would work with a Silicon Dust HDHomerun Tuner and the HDHomerun Live TV app (or Kodi plugin)?
Anyone able to confirm if there is a way to root it and replace the Android software that comes on it? I want something outside of the tablet/phone world to try some things out on.
My first Meh. May there be mehny more!
what are the physical dimensions of the dongle and the keyboard? I need a 'not included' hairy hand holding it for perspective. It kind of looks like the keyboard is the size of a small tv remote, which would make those keys hard to press for someone with fat fingers.
I want a device that allows me to browse my network server using the file structure similar to the way my PS3 did it. The PS4 does not read directory structure. Does this do that?
@TCayer It should with the Plex App installed
Meh... So I could spend $20 for this thing to do the same thing my HTPC and my OTA antenna does?
In for 3...if this thing is anything close to the cheap MXQ box I got from China then I'm thrilled. TVMC will be the only app I'll need for this thing.
If all Kickstarter attempts succeeded, we would not need Kickstarter.
The problem with this is that it only connects via HDMI. if a TV has HDMI then it (1) can work with Roku, Chromecast, etc.., and (2) most likely has an ATSC over-the-air digital tuner. This dongle is best suited for TV's that pre-date HDMI that someone wants to put to use. If this used component inputs you could use it on a ton of pre-ATSC tuner TVs and make them "smart" - that would be worth something. With it only working on HDMI-capable TV's you've virtually ensured its irrelevance.
@kcmark Thank you for explaining my problem with it.
Can't place exactly why, but this makes me more uncomfortable than any product that's been on Meh.
@danblondell Agreed! Even the android tv boxes coming from China at 2x the price worried me simply due to the lack of support. Sure, they can be a fun project to play around with, but I need plug-n-play functionality right out of the box! I worry about how good the wifi is with these boxes. Interesting that they did sell as many as I thought they might. 😛
@Kerig3 well if the wifi is anything like the wifi on those craig smart tv adapters meh suckered me into a while back then it pretty much sucks dong.les... hey wait a sec mehybe @mehcus will let me trade in the craig adapter for this one?! :)
@thismyusername it's cuz you like dongles. Dongle lover.
@Thumperchick I think more like dongle envy... just imagine how I would have felt when everyone was in a new thread talking about all the things they are doing with their dongles.
@thismyusername dongle envy, it's a bitch.
If the coax was output to 90s TVs and not just antenna input I'd get one.
Argh, bring this back Meh - I would have bought this! I have an old Panasonic plasma I use with an OTA antenna and it has the least sensitive tuner in it imaginable. Being able to get OTA signal the TV with an HDMI output would be fantastic!
Well, I got one for the tuner, and it's pretty sweet except for one problem: The video is hosed up. Their's weird off color artifacts all over the place, like a certain subtle color is replaced with pink. It seems to get worse as it warms up. I tried swapping HDMI cords and TV ports and the problem follows the MOHU. My cheap POS tuner this MOHU replaced looks fine. What do I do Meh?
@bonkey Sounds defective. Sorry. My Mohu does nothing like what you're talking about.
@bonkey Ruh-roh. Same here. Black disappears and all I see is fuchsia. Hope there's a fix because (except for the expected awkwardness of air-mousing) it's just the thing I needed. Like John Lydon sang
"no fuchsia for me."
@bonkey
I am not meh, well I am meh but I don't work for them... however.... I would go to the "my orders" page and then click on the button labeled "I need help with this" next to the order for the Mohu, and then let them know what is happening.
Give them several days to reply!
@thismyusername Thanks! Done. This will be interesting to see how Meh handles my (and others) MOHU problems. Resellerratings has Meh at 10/10 (and Woot at less than 1/10). Fingers crossed!
@bonkey It's good to remember that CS takes 1-2 business days to reply - because they're real people working M-F 9-5ish.
Meh. It worked great for three days and I was starting to like it, but today it won't boot up. The splash screen comes up then it just hangs :(
@LankHairdoo Let the folks at meh.com/support know of your issue.
Mine wouldn't even start up. This is the "Craig Smart TV HDMI Adapter with Keyboard & Mouse" all over again.
I need a disapointing product to bitch about, where the hell's my mooooo man?
@cranky1950 same... how I imagine fedex right now:
I bought 3 of them...and wish I would have bought more! I absolutely love it so far! It had a few glitches (took a while to install the firmware update)...nothing that a few pulls of the power cord didn't fix. I now have this running with TVMC and Kodi...and have pure TV watching goodness. This thing doesn't constantly disconnect from my internet like the cheap China POS that I got a few weeks ago. These will replace every Roku I have because they offer a world more of apps. The only con that I found was that I couldn't find a way to bypass the crazy guide interface and go directly into the android OS guts of it...but I haven't looked too hard. The guide is nice...once I learned that the down arrow on the far right changes channels even if I'm in an app (user error). I've installed Netfix, TVMC, Kodi all without problems. I've also installed ES FileExplorer to handle the downloading and sideloading of apps. I'm glad this came with sideloading enabled...or that would have been a hassle to fix. It only got like 4 or 5 OTA channels...but I haven't really placed the antenna in an optimal place yet. For the price...I like it just for the android features. Count me in for more next time!
@gallogj Is there a firmware update we need to do to the device? - Found it! :) Thanks for the heads up to go looking.
@michaellindahl Hopefully you have better luck with the update. The first time it rebooted into recovery and just hung there. After a cord pull and a retry...it finally took. It's definitely a glitchy device. Having owned my fair share of Android devices...it's average to what you'd expect for the price. At least it comes with the Google play store!
@gallogj the update went great for me. Didn't fix my image/connection issues detailed in my other comment though.
Mine has severe issues, have spent over five hours today messing with it (I know, I should have gave up long ago - but I really wanted it to work) - called Mohu and 2 different reps over 2 separate calls said they 1) don't sell the item to third parties, 2) it is no longer available from them (discontinued), and stressed emphatically 3) I "could not have possibly bought it in new condition."
I tell ya, I just love being called a liar.
Sent email to CS here at Meh but did not get the usual email reply back stating they got my message?
@hollboll? Anyone?
@justbuyit they totally took your $20 and are now running to the Bahamas to live in luxury!!!!
(Give them some time, they have a backlog I suspect due to the Great Crock Pot Catastrophe of 2015)
Did you send a random email out of the blue? If you didn't include the order number consider going to your orders page and clicking on the "I Need Help With This" button under the mohu order.
@thismyusername I knew it! They're living high off the damn hog on my $20, I just didn't know I needed to look for them in the Bahamas, I figured that they'd be holed up somewhere in South America, most likely in a seedy brothel. Thanks for the tip! I'll book my flight tonight to go looking for them. At least it is an excuse to fly to the Bahamas!
Yes, I sent the inquiry from the order page, yes, they're backed up like a septic system in desperate need of Rid-X (@hollboll sent me a message about something else entirely this afternoon addressing an issue from last week, which fixed itself - USPS, go figure!). Yes, I'll wait patiently to hear back from them. Just thought it was a little weird not to get the standard auto-reply when I sent the inquiry from the web form.
@justbuyit If you need investigative help, and will cover all expenses, just let me know. ;)
@justbuyit The lack of auto-reply would have me a bit concerned as well. I'm sure they got your message and will get back to you, though.
Well, I'm really terribly upset that I got a wonderfully kind and most helpful reply from customer service today that took care of the issue I was having. Come to find out, they are not in the Bahamas living high off the hog on my $20. They're still in Texas. Which sucks if you're them, I suppose (versus the Bahamas). I totally would have fled the country on that money.
@justbuyit Mmm don't want to hear this. My reply from Meh on a problem with my order was to contact Mohu support ...
@LankHairdoo I believe that you will have much better luck contacting Mohu support now that certain issues have been called to their attention / ironed out. If Meh says contact Mohu, that's definitely the path I would follow.
Just got my Mohu Channels. It looks and feels really awesome. I haven't figured out how to record shows yet.
I'm also experiencing extreme issues with it/my projector.
The projector keeps switching between the signal from the mohu and "signal processing, please wait."
This has nothing to do with the antenna as this appears on the guide/setting/etc.
The image from the Mohu is also really poor. I'm experiencing a lot of flickering, where I see the whole image there's just flickering of black horizontal bars in varying heights. The image also appears to condense near the bottom by 2% every so often.
I'm assuming that the quality of image that the Mohu is sending is either really poor/variable or I've got a defective unit :/ Not sure which it is. Going to try with a traditional TV later this week.
@michaellindahl I don't believe it records shows...I believe it will only pause/timeshift shows from the reviews I read. A lot of people panned this device because it misses the capability to record.
@michaellindahl It doesn't have this connection issue with the traditional TV I tried, I'm going to have to do additional device testing. My projector is the Acer H5380BD
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posting this from mohu. keyboard stinks. hit an arrow and lost focus on reply box, whn i clicked back in it reply went away.
Mine works fine so far. found out the old living room tv was 720p only, but ive been meaning to switch so i did. tuner gets all the channels i got before, some are skippybut my antenna is basically laying on a windowsill. guide is neat. can check meh. 7/10 would buy again at this price for bedroom tv as well .
I think the keyboard is what makes this device worth the price! It not only gives you point and shoot mouse capability similar to a wii remote, it also allows you to type using the keys. Anyone who has used an Android box (or Roku or Fire Stick) knows the pain of typing in search boxes without a keyboard! I know you can always "just talk" to a Fire stick and have it search for you...but that search capability only works with the Amazon Prime app...so there's that. I wish the processor in the Mohu were a little better. It freezes up sometimes (maybe the buffer is full?) and won't do hardware acceleration on Kodi...had to switch it to software acceleration to get it to play video. I've watched numerous movies without losing Ethernet connection...which is way better than the MXQ box it replaced!
@gallogj You're right. The keyboard is far better than any arrow-select onscreen keyboard arrangement for something like searching for a movie title or logging into your account. I only became frustrated with it when trying to be verbose on the forum. In general, for TV-type activities, it's definitely a plus.
Aside from the keyboard having to improve to suck, the Mooo is ok. But damn try to select anything.
@cranky1950 I guess they were too busy being user centric to design this for the 30 or 40% of the population that is infirm. My kid has no trouble using the keyboard, I cannot keep the cursor on the smaller buttons long enough to select anything. Guess thats why it made its way to MEH
Mine was working fine until I upgraded the firmware. After the firmware upgrade, it is stuck at an (empty) Guide window. The window flashes every second or so (re-loading the guide again).
If I try to move to something else (such as the settings window) it will sometimes switch for 0.5 seconds, and then automatically move me back to the blank guide (keeping me from doing anything useful such as resetting the device).
I tried alt-enter to put it to sleep, and it looked like it went to sleep (for 1 second) and then jumped back awake right to the guide.....
Anybody know how to get out of this zombie loop?
@summetj I Know this is a long shot, but mine just did this after a firmware upgrade too. I found it a few weeks ago and started using it as a kodi box. Then decided to upgrade the firmware, cause why not. Well that was dumb and I can’t get out of this damn loop. If anyone figured out how to fix this please share!!
@naveednn Never fixed the one with the bricked firmware, but Meh had sent me a replacement. I’ve since stopped using it (they are crap, after all) and replaced it with a Roku. If you paypal me $6 for postage I’ll ship my working one to you in a USPS small flat rate box.
@summetj Sure I’ll take you up on it. Definitely works right? Just let me know where to send it.
@naveednn It works (as well as the Mohu ever did…). My email is [redacted]
@summetj Sent, thanks
@naveednn USPS.com tracking number: 9405803699300355361702
(Ships Tuesday)
@Thumperchick
Wanna remove any info you deem as being “private” ?
@summetj Got it, thanks!!
Things I have found about the mohu channels:
When it goes to sleep the GUIDE button wakes it up... if it doesn't just power cycle it.
I've been playing with these on my day off. It's flawed, but still very cool. That $20 would cover the HDMI cable at an electronics store. A little more development would have revolutionized cord cutting. A collaboration between Roku and Mohu would annihilate every other streaming device!
Overall, the tuner is the best part, and the Android functionality is a nice bonus. It's supplementing my Rokus, but not replacing them only due to two issues: Amazon Instant Video and Plex. Both are there, but Plex playback is choppy and Amazon videos won't load (d/t intentional crippling by Amazon no doubt). Netflix works well. Sling TV can be choppy, though it's nice to have another way to watch Sling when the Roku sling app bombs out (Sling is buggy everywhere).
Regarding that tuner, I used one of these to replace an old Samsung HD tuner hooked up to an old rear projection TV we have in a bonus room. That old tuner was the size of a VCR and only went as high as 1080i. The on screen guide took ages to load. This thing is faster and better all around. An HDMI broadcast tuner for $20 is insane, no matter how crappy the Android stuff is. Count me among those who wish they bought more.
Using it just as a tuner, my only gripe is the dependence on the proprietary remote. I like using universal remotes, but none support this. Had development continued I'm sure an app would have been released, but now we can just play around with these things and think of what might have been.
If anyone gets fed up and contemplates throwing it out a window or trashing it, let me know. I'll take it!
Update: compared to Roku, Netflix on this sucks, because it's throttled to 480p. Sling TV works, but lacks the on
-demand functionality that the Roku app has. Amazon Prime doesn't work at all. Plex doesn't work well. But none of that matters, because unlike a Roku, this works with Kodi! A Kodi box that's also a TV tuner, for $20? And I only bought 2?
@haskins187 youtube seems to be stuck at 360p... this thing is a conundrum.
I am also happy with it... a tuner with a HDMI out for $20? score! :)
@thismyusername Forget the Android apps. Just download Kodi, then get all your apps within Kodi. YouTube and Netflix within Kodi are 1080p, plus you'll have access to nearly limitless HD content. I'd save the Mohu channel guide area for actual TV channels, direct streaming from the web, the Kodi app, and any apps not available within Kodi.
Not that it probably matters to anyone, but here’s a recent teardown article.