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Ouya Support – Other troubleshooting issues.

August 23, 2021June 29, 2014 by S-Config

Welcome to Ouya Support time with S-Config!

I notice a lot of people come to my site for various support topics for the Ouya and I figured that I should make an article dealing with some of the Ouya Support in terms of troubleshooting issues that were simply too small to exist under one article. These are questions which pop up time and time again in forums as well as on reviewers that decide is a fatal flaw of the console. Just a kind note that your Ouya has a 1 year warranty from the time of your purchase to be sure to keep that sales receipt in case something catastrophic happens to it.

Ouya USB Speed Test – Partitions

August 22, 2022June 2, 2014 by S-Config

Testing the Ouya USB ports.

Ouya USB is great really! It gives the Ouya extra space to store games, ROMs, pictures, practically everything that you would otherwise have problems with the confines of an estimated 3.2GB of free space that is on internal memory because the Android OS is taking up over half of the space! However, one of the annoyances that people do complain about is how long it takes to scan games.

A lot of this has to do with the quality of the USB thumb drive that you are using. But could it be something more? Could it be the way that our drive is formatted that is slowing down the Ouya? What I am talking about is partitioning your USB Drive to something other than the normality in order to attain stability and speed out from your Ouyas USB device.

PS3 Third Party a.k.a. The P3 Controller

November 2, 2019May 17, 2014 by S-Config

Ouya vs. the P3 Knock Off Controller Title.

The PS3 (Playstation) Third Party P3 Controller.

For those who do not play much on eBay there was a lot of issues with purchasing controllers for the PlayStation 3 in regards to china making a ton of knock off controllers. These third-party or P3 controllers looked like a Sony PlayStation 3 controller except that if you ever picked one up and start pressing the buttons or pushing the analog stick around you know that there is something not quite right with them.

CheapCast – A ChromeCast daemon for Ouya

June 8, 2023April 18, 2014 by S-Config

CheapCast coming to the rescue on Ouya!

In my previous article, I have discussed a lot of AirPlay and DNLA action with AirPin for Ouya. But what if you don't have an Apple phone? What if you got an Android phone or even a laptop that is running Google Chrome? This is where installing another service onto your Ouya called "CheapCast" will aid you in your multi-platform streaming woes.

Goodbye Youtube and Vimeo

September 23, 2023April 14, 2014 by S-Config

About the movie time section for my favorite YouTube and Vimeo Posts:

In an effort to divorce me from YouTube and Vimeo. Movie time is no longer on this site. Read on if you want to know more.

Samba filesharing on the Ouya – For windows users

June 8, 2023January 2, 2014 by S-Config

Welcome, Ouya to the Samba Windows network community!

To most people who own an Android or an Ouya. There's a multitude of methods of installing data to it be it music, pictures, videos, or Side-Loading APK's:

AirPin – AirPlay and DLNA streaming on Ouya

October 16, 2024December 29, 2013 by S-Config

My experiences with AirPin AirPlay for Ouya

If you have read our previous articles about AirPlay. You'll know that we are no stranger to Apple and their magical protocol of transferring audio data from one device to another with the protocol known as "AirPlay". However, when it came to Ouya it has been almost a dead topic. After all; The Ouya is a cheap game system and could never be able to act as an AirPlay receiver of content like that. Or at least, so we thought. This is not going to be a step-by-step guide as that would involve us showing you how to root your Ouya to access the GooglePlay store. Although this program works without your Ouya being rooted. You would have to think of more creative ways of getting those APKs onto your Ouya without the assistance of Google Play and we can't show you that! We like my web provider very much thank you!

Would you like to know more?

IBM SurePOS 4800-742 AP04 and Chemi-Con Capacitor fail.

November 2, 2019December 9, 2013 by S-Config

More IBM SurePOS hatred from a computer technician.

Another IBM product (which is now Toshibas nightmare), another capacitor fails. Unlike Dell and Samsung which moved away from the Chemi-con capacitors quickly after the lawsuits and disasters of PCs and servers dropping over dead in less than a year. IBM stayed the course and decided to make this capacitor the "Industry Standard" kinda like how industry standard for generating power is using a water wheel. Unlike my previous article I don't think I have illustrated exactly WHY the capacitors blow apart so easily in these SurePOS units.

WinAmp – The end of an era that never really ends.

October 27, 2022November 30, 2013 by S-Config

WinAmp's humble beginnings from this bloggers perspective.

The news of WinAmp has been sending shockwaves with their announcement of finally shutting down the program and closing the doors after 14 years on December 20th, 2013 along with all sister media servers associated with it. Throughout most of the older internet community and since we haven't posted a blog update in a while we thought that we should give our views and insights about WinAmp since in a very strange way we had WinAmp even BEFORE we had a PC.

We had a version of WinAmp Called "AmiAmp" for the Commodore Amiga computer which possessed a 68020 processor or better the first MP3 we ever got was on some french server on Lyon that had lots of anime p0rn, but for some reason, they also had "The Cranberries - Salvation" in MP3 format on there. It was the only song on that FTP site. If anyone from the Cranberries is reading this

Relax. We did get the CD a few years later. -S

My Amiga 3000 with a 25Mhz 68030 processor was not strong enough to play the mp3 at 128kps stereo, I could only play it in mono with %100 CPU power. When we eventually ~~stopped drinking the kool-aid~~ and left the Amiga scene and got a PC we of course got Winamp right away.

Read on to continue our diatribes of old software.

Raspberry Pi – CGMiner – Bitcoin adventures.

January 8, 2022October 16, 2013 by S-Config

Raspberry Pi with CGMiner making the bitcoins.

My Raspberry Pi runs almost 24/7 with some of the projects that we've done in the past such as OpenSIM and installing Airplay onto it so that we can send music to the amplifier to my living room and even running some P2P programs to get my latest Linux distros faster. Because it runs on a 24/7 basis that means that I'm pissing 3 watts of power non-stop. We decided to out my Pi to work on getting me bitcoin currency.