{"id":1771,"date":"2015-07-13T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1771"},"modified":"2021-06-07T18:49:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T22:49:04","slug":"ouya-as-a-set-top-box-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1771","title":{"rendered":"Ouya as a Set-Top Box, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/8NdTc6WJscg\/0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/8NdTc6WJscg\/0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"186\" align=\"right\"><\/a>I really appreciate that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marriott.com\/hotels\/travel\/sfodt-san-francisco-marriott-marquis\/\">this last hotel<\/a> had a media box hooked up, so that external devices could be connected to the room TV. It had composite, S-video, and HDMI, as well as a 3.5mm audio in jack.<\/p>\n<p>I hooked up the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ouya.tv\/\">Ouya<\/a>, which survived another trip as carry-on in my backpack, and the video came right up. The audio was the obnoxious guy from the menu channel, and I couldn&#8217;t get it to go away. After a bit of fiddling, I double-checked the labels on the media box ports.<\/p>\n<p>HDMI was labeled as &#8220;Digital Video.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A quick call to the front desk confirmed that it was video only. There was always the audio in jack, but the Ouya doesn&#8217;t have a matching output. That left specialized cables or adapters and now I was moving into &#8220;too much work&#8221; territory.<\/p>\n<p>I did have a work-around. The speakers on my laptop are excellent, and it has an HDMI out port. I hooked the laptop up to the TV, muted the TV, cranked the volume on the laptop, and used my trackball as a remote for Netflix and YouTube goodness.<\/p>\n<p>Conclusion &#8211; Leave the Ouya at home as the really cool <a href=\"http:\/\/www.android.com\/\">Android<\/a> gaming console that it is.<\/p>\n<p>To Do &#8211; Figure out how to avoid Laptop Neck while traveling. Maybe something like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/86285180\/roost-laptop-stand-free-yourself-from-laptop-neck\/\">this<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really appreciate that this last hotel had a media box hooked up, so that external devices could be connected to the room TV. It had composite, S-video, and HDMI, as well as a 3.5mm audio in jack. I hooked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=1771\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-1771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-gadgets-and-nerdery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-sz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8149,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions\/8149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}