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#303955 23-Mar-2023 09:58
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Since about a week or so ago, after working perfectly fine for many months, we've been unable to stream any content on the Neon app on our TV. None of the little profile images on the "who's watching Neon?" page show and none of the programme images show on the home page either. Trying to stream anything at all eventually results in "Error - Starting playback took longer than expected - please try again later". 

I'm using Vodafone wireless broadband and the connection speeds are pretty good (I've regularly seen 200+Mbps recently) and the wifi router is less than a metre from the TV (but I've also tried with an ethernet cable just in case but with the same results).  If I fire up a mobile hotspot on my phone when it's connected to the the 2degrees data network and hook the TV up to that, Neon works just fine. Perfectly in fact. If I use the same hotspot when the phone's connected to the home wifi (Vodafone again of course) Neon stops working again. So everything seems to point at something on Vodafone being the problem, right?  I've contacted Voda support and they've not been much help I'm afraid. It was almost impossible to make them see that the only common factor in scenarios showing the problem was the Vodafone connection, and the best 'solution' their 2nd level support could come up with was that the Neon servers must be very busy. That was after first suggesting that the wifi router was too far from the TV.

 

Neon support are looking into it but haven't been able to suggest any fix as yet.

 

So this should quite arguably be posted in a Vodafone forum rather than one for Neon but I figured I'd start at the very beginning of the chain (i.e the app that's stopped working) and see if anyone's seen anything similar....and hopefully fixed it of course.

 

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  #3053668 23-Mar-2023 10:05
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Is it an option to do a factory reset on your TV and set it up again?

 

I would doubt Vodafone is specifically blocking anything - but maybe there is some networking issue somewhere between the TV and Neon.

 

Doing a factory reset on the TV *should* at least get rid of any legacy network connection junk that may be screwing things up.

 

 





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  #3053669 23-Mar-2023 10:06
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Have a read of this thread, it may be relevent.


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  #3053670 23-Mar-2023 10:06
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All the streaming apps on my Panasonic smart tv just stopped working the other day. I tried hooking up via ethernet, rentering my wifi details, all to no avail. I ended up powering it off at the wall, waiting a minute or so, then starting it back up and hooray everything started working again. Give that a go if you haven't already.








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  #3053671 23-Mar-2023 10:13
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maoriboy:

 

All the streaming apps on my Panasonic smart tv just stopped working the other day. I tried hooking up via ethernet, rentering my wifi details, all to no avail. I ended up powering it off at the wall, waiting a minute or so, then starting it back up and hooray everything started working again. Give that a go if you haven't already.

 

 

I've unplugged both the TV and wifi router more times than I can recall over the past few days, all to no avail unfortunately.


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  #3053675 23-Mar-2023 10:20
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robjg63:

 

Is it an option to do a factory reset on your TV and set it up again?

 

I would doubt Vodafone is specifically blocking anything - but maybe there is some networking issue somewhere between the TV and Neon.

 

Doing a factory reset on the TV *should* at least get rid of any legacy network connection junk that may be screwing things up.

 

 

I might try the TV factory reset out of desperation. But it's difficult to get away from the fact that everything works fine if Vodafone is removed from the equation.


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  #3053779 23-Mar-2023 13:30
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Does Neon work on phone app when connected via Voda wifi??





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  #3053803 23-Mar-2023 14:39
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Spyware:

 

Does Neon work on phone app when connected via Voda wifi??

 

 

Yes it does. And also on an Android tablet. So it appears to be just the TV and Vodafone wireless broadband that aren't getting along nicely.


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  #3053808 23-Mar-2023 15:08
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And other apps apart from Neon work correctly on the TV??





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  #3053829 23-Mar-2023 16:23
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Spyware:

 

And other apps apart from Neon work correctly on the TV??

 

 

TVNZ+ is working fine, so is Three Now (never use that one though). Prime Video isn't, I can see images OK but attempts to stream anything eventually results in "Something went wrong. Please try again later.".  It's perhaps a little ironic that the ones we pay for are the ones not working :-/


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  #3054118 24-Mar-2023 13:39
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I'm on Vodafone wireless broadband and seem to be having the same issue for my Sony android TV and also an older TV using a SmartVu TV stick.

Happening for Amazon Prime, Disney Plus, etc. Wonder what has changed - other than the One rebrand as it was working fine yesterday. Have done the reboot for TV and TV stick etc.

Streaming apps work OK on my phone on same Wi-Fi. Might just give Vodafone a call.

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  #3054143 24-Mar-2023 14:08
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nyquist: I'm on Vodafone wireless broadband and seem to be having the same issue for my Sony android TV and also an older TV using a SmartVu TV stick.

Happening for Amazon Prime, Disney Plus, etc. Wonder what has changed - other than the One rebrand as it was working fine yesterday. Have done the reboot for TV and TV stick etc.

Streaming apps work OK on my phone on same Wi-Fi. Might just give Vodafone a call.

 

Ohhh that's interesting. I hope you have better luck with their tech 'support' than I did. And I'll be really keen to know how you get on.


 
 
 
 

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  #3054168 24-Mar-2023 15:27
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iand:

Ohhh that's interesting. I hope you have better luck with their tech 'support' than I did. And I'll be really keen to know how you get on.



No luck. They confirmed nothing has changed on my connection and directed me to contact either TV manufacturer or the streaming platform provider.

What's interesting is that like yourself as soon as I connect to another network I can stream on TV again. I'll have a further look into it, might have to try factory reset etc.

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  #3054173 24-Mar-2023 15:43
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nyquist:
iand:

 

Ohhh that's interesting. I hope you have better luck with their tech 'support' than I did. And I'll be really keen to know how you get on.

 



No luck. They confirmed nothing has changed on my connection and directed me to contact either TV manufacturer or the streaming platform provider.

What's interesting is that like yourself as soon as I connect to another network I can stream on TV again. I'll have a further look into it, might have to try factory reset etc.

 

Bah! Predictable I guess but frustrating all the same. I'm surprised they didn't try the "the streaming servers must be very busy" line as well. I haven't resorted to the TV factory reset just yet, I'm holding out as long as possible. If you do try it please let me know if it helps at all.


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  #3054176 24-Mar-2023 15:52
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How about changing the DNS server being used  by the TV.





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  #3054421 25-Mar-2023 13:07
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No luck with factory resetting TV and TV stick. Have also reset my modem, took out the SIM card and did a reboot, and tried changing DNS servers, a few setup/configurations on my network to no success.

 

I reinstalled the Neon app (which I uninstalled and stopped using a while ago due the performance issues in this thread) and it seems like it's working okay now, which was interesting.

 

I do wonder if its related to the One rebrand since there seems to be some recent comms/activity happening in this space - wonder if someone forgot to give Amazon Prime and Disney Plus the head's up? (J/K...sorta).

 

I'll wait and see what happens after - maybe contacting Amazon Prime or Disney Plus will be the next steps or maybe I change providers - but for now Chromecast still seems to work all right, if a bit inconvenient now.

 

ETA: I wish all apps now had the ability to login/activate via device - pretty slow having to type login and password multiple times on a remote!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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