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Do you know of any Android TV / smart tv box which has a USB port?

I am currently building a magic mirror like smart map. Basically, the goal is to have a big touchscreen with Google maps or Google earth running.

For touch screen support I bought a cheap USB infrared frame. I have tested it with the USB C port of my Android phone and it works well, but I have sadly not found any Android TV box which has an USB port.

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I used to put Xibo on crappy boxes like this one here for work. They never had the same internals, even if I used the same supplier. They usually thought they were a phone when you dug into their software.

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I believe many that use usb for power, like Google's, are real ports that can be split with a hub.

That's correct. The Chromecast w/ Google TV works with the same USB-C hub I use with my MacBook Pro and Nintendo Switch.

Oh wow, that is news to me. That would be what I'm looking for! Thanks

The very first one, ADT-1, does have a USB port. I have one, but it's a prototype kind of thing and Google never really sold these to the general public. I got mine at Google I/O. That said, you could probably find them on ebay.

> Do you know of any Android TV / smart tv box which has a USB port?

Build your own with a Raspberry Pi. The new ones pack quite some heat in terms of performance.

Unfortunately I don't think Android is officially available for the Raspberry Pi.. But what I did to test my frame was installing Android x86 on a NUC. The reason why I want Android is because the Google Maps and Google Earth apps there already provide the touch experience I want.

I think the new nvidia stick has a USB port if you disassemble it a tiny bit.

Check out the formuler boxes, the gtv is android certified

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