My TV started constantly losing its WiFi connection and after trying all the standard stuff I finally dug into the system logs on the WiFi router to determine that the router was sending control commands to tell the TV to upgrade from the 2GHz to the 5GHz band and when the TV didn't respond appropriately, the router would deauth it for some stupid reason.

I can only assume something changed in the TV firmware because I haven't upgraded my WiFi firmware in 6 months.

So I found the config to disable "smart connection upgrades" and now everything is stable. I can't imagine how frustrating it would be for a normie without deep networking knowledge to run into this bullshit.

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Amen. I'm getting sick of "smart" TVs.

Yeah, Usually when you don’t get upset about hackers fucking with you they get bored and go somewhere else. Don’t let the bastards wear you down.

Had a similar situation when I got my PS5. Had to go in and TELL it to always use 5GHz. The "auto connection" would flip flop back and forth for no reason.

"time to buy a new TV I guess" 👀

"Commercial displays" are my new standard. Love it. Fuck 'smart' TVs.

Where does one acquire these?

The dumb displays cost more than smartTVs with more software and beefier compute. When I spot that the dumb one that doesn't phone home costs more I've started assuming the price difference is a fair way to estimate how much economic value they get from the spying.

That may be a part, but the commercial displays are theoretically built for heavy use. Mine is rated for 16/7/365. I bought a gen behind on sale so the price wasn't too much higher considering the build quality and components. I'm sure they make some money by preloading apps and preventing others from being installed. Either way, it's retarded. I'll go back to not having a TV is I can't find a display. We did it for years until inheriting a smart TV that quickly broke lol

I'm currently using a smart tv that has no connection as a display for a streaming box that can only stream off my local network.

Every now and again my TV will just stop working and of course force me to upgrade firmware. My previous Samsung Decided to do some shit and I had to flash an SD card and Afro engineer a situation to get it rebooted.

Life

You own a TV?!

That is the most annoying things in devices. There are some automated stuff that does things you don't want.

That's helpful. Always disable the automatic whatever.

Its called “planned obsolescence “

Don't today's TVs try to collect a lot of info on you? How do you harden it for privacy?

PiHole for DNS

Sandboxed email accounts and privacy cards to anonymize each streaming service account and prevent leaking PII.

I think about this a lot when I have to do some crazy deep dive troubleshooting to get something to work

Holy shit I would never let my tv connect to the internet

Holy shit I would never let a tv in my house, I have internet 😆

Yeah, it must be really, really, really hard to be a normie.

Yeah I don’t connect my TV to the internet

This is what Black Friday and Prime Day are for.

Stop using wireless signals. Connect everything to the ethernet directly.

I don't let my spybox (television) talk to the Internet, at all.

All I want is for the soundtrack and SFX to have the same amplitude as the dialogue so I don't have to ride the volume.

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"Smart connection upgrades" doesn't sound like OpenWrt.

Are you running vendor firmware?

ASUSWRT-Merlin

👍 For a moment there I thought you might be in a bad place.

Ethernet cable fixes this

Hardline

The "smart" surveilance...

Smart features! LOL! 😂

Wow great tip... but I prefer stable wire connection

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Wait til you find out what other "control commands" your wireless router is sending. Maybe consider hardwire connections? Try turning off your wireless routers at night when you are asleep. Your mileage may vary. 💜🧡

wen wall sized monitors

We just wait (sometimes for 6+ months) until the TV manufacturer releases a firmware solution and our TV auto updates itself with It.