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LG Begins Rolling Out AirPlay 2 and HomeKit to 2018 Smart TVs
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I formatted mine to NTFS, created a folder called LG_DTV, unzipped the downloaded zip file and copied over. When I plugged into the tv and turned it on, it straight away asked me if I wanted to upgrade.
I tried to set it up but I could not get my LG to appear in Home. After you install the plugin, how do you actually get the device to appear in Homekit? (I'm using HOOBS)
East Coast of Canada here, Format USB 3.0 drive to NTFS downloaded the LG 2020 update file .zip. Created the LG_DTV folder on the USB drive and extracted the file to the Folder. Plugged the USB into USB #2 and the TV when straight into the update. The TV restarted after the upgrade. I had to agree to the new user agreements and the TV restarted again. After this I went to the "NEW" AirPlay tab on the Home screen and set up AirPlay and HomeKit and can confirm everything went very smoothly with AirPlay and HomeKit working perfectly. I can not control volume through SIRI however, can change Input and Turn on and off TV.... My TV is the 2018 OLED55B8PUA.
What do you mean by initialized?
I formatted both as FAT32 and as NTFS and it my tv does not str-art the update on any of the 3 USB ports
I get this image all the time whatever I try
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I tried a
USB2.0 4GB usb stick
USB3.0 8GB usb stick
External SSD 250GB
And all tried NTFS and FAT32
None of them worked on any of the 3 USB ports on my tv
I don't get it...
ok so I formatted as MBR FAT32 on my MacBook and now it worked after plugging it in usb2 on the tv and leaving it in for a minute or so
Question to those, who did the update with the USB-stick and didn't succeed: did your TV say, that you have the wrong firmware?
Background: I have an OLED55B87LC and on the support page of LG isn't any firmware version for this TV (but I did get frequently updates). I would like to try the firmware of this post because I have an Austrian model (not Australian haha) and think they could be compatible. But I don't want to brick the TV.
Background: I have an OLED55B87LC and on the support page of LG isn't any firmware version for this TV (but I did get frequently updates). I would like to try the firmware of this post because I have an Austrian model (not Australian haha) and think they could be compatible. But I don't want to brick the TV.
As far as i know and tried if the software does not match with your tv, nothing happens. The file is not read by tv. I tried with my 55uk7550pla but could not update it
Has the interface changed with the update? I notice that the 2020 models have smaller icons on the main screen but I suspect LG just updates the existing version of WebOS supplied with the TV rather than upgrading users to the latest version of WebOS.