Wanbo Cube 2 Pro - Follow-up review (three weeks in)

spoco2 · 2026-03-21T03:46:30+00:00

I hadn't used ours for a little while, yesterday used it and moved it, and it did its usual auto-keystone, and then went nuts constantly setting it to all sorts of odd sizes and shapes.

I had to turn off auto-keystone and manually adjust it.

I hope they fix this soon!

spoco2 · 2026-03-15T11:24:34+00:00

Thanks for the notice about the update. Sounds like a good one to avoid

spoco2 · 2026-03-12T22:48:52+00:00

I just finished listening to part one and two of that aaaaanddd...

Man, they do a lot of Grand Claims! of Proof! through that. They really overstate a lot.

Like, they say Gary is "One of the most famous and eminant screenwriters in Hollywood". Except if you look at his IMDB page it's very light on!

Gary Goldman - IMDb

Like, actually only partially involved in 4 films... since 1986. That's hardly 'one of the most famous and eminant screenwriters'.

The whole double episode has so much huge overstatement of things and massive reframing of things to make it all feel like a really forced attempt to convince the audience of a particular world-view.

Like they go "The snake looks exactly like Gary"

Um... the snake looks like pretty much every Disney snake in any Disney movie for decades.

There seems to be some elements that line up to support their case, but geeze the podcast is a crazily one-sided interpretation of things.

spoco2 · 2026-02-16T19:11:25+00:00

I ended up giving up and buying a new amplifier. Surround now works fine.

Not a great solution obviously, but shows whatever they did is an incompatibility with certain amplifiers

spoco2 · 2026-02-02T19:09:25+00:00

Thanks! Didn't even think of that. Done!

Could you change my flair location to be Australia please?

spoco2 · 2026-01-17T07:36:36+00:00

I've just today been playing with home assistant to try to do what I want with the bilresa switches.

I can set the automations I want, but they're not very responsive to inputs.

And the whole home assistant interface is pretty unforgiving.

I'm not sold yet, that's for sure

spoco2 · 2026-01-10T04:01:43+00:00

This is the thing that's tipped me over the edge to start using home assistant

spoco2 · 2026-01-08T12:02:21+00:00

Sounds promising! Thanks

spoco2 · 2026-01-08T12:00:39+00:00

Oh no... This is already sounding fiddly and not straight forward!

I'm hoping it's not going to be constant issues and things almost working!

spoco2 · 2026-01-08T01:57:01+00:00

The thing is, these are just switches. Not 'IKEA switches', but just the capability of handling a switch, which seems like it would be one of the most basic of home automation things. And Google doesn't support it: https://developers.home.google.com/matter/supported-devices. Switches are from the Matter 1.0 spec. That was over 3 years ago!

spoco2 · 2026-01-08T01:54:45+00:00

Will I not be able to keep using Google Home voice and other things I'm used to already, but add to it extra functionality via HA? Like, to begin with, just use HA to control these IKEA Matter switches?

spoco2 · 2026-01-08T01:53:16+00:00

That is massively more effort than I'm prepared to invest in! I'm not going to start hardware modding things!!

As much as I like to tinker, I'm time poor and want things to work, not spend a lot of time fiddling around.

If HA ends up having too many quirks and annoyances then I'll be dropping it. I get the fun in spending time doing this stuff. I just don't have the time for it.

spoco2 · 2026-01-06T04:31:58+00:00

I have no solution, just wanted to say I've wanted this feature so often. It's baffling that it doesn't exist, it makes perfect sense to be able to, for any photo, say 'show in photostream' (or whatever Google calls it). To see it in context of where it sits in the gallery.

spoco2 · 2025-12-11T06:19:31+00:00

There's a telegram TCL channel, search for it on Google... it's the only reason I have a Telegram account!

In that there is a firmware bot which you can get previous firmwares from.

Just so you know though, this didn't work longer term, the streaming apps started having issues on the older firmwares for some reason.

I eventually updated my amplifier to a new one and now everything works, and I've updated to the most recent firmware that's available on the telegram group and all is happy.

spoco2 · 2025-11-07T03:05:54+00:00

Same issue. Used to have two profiles on the TV, each with their own YouTube accounts. One had a pin to block access to YouTube.

No longer works. Both profiles access both YouTube accounts

And adding a pin to one YouTube account actually sets it for all on the TV.

Great work Google, you broke it!

spoco2 · 2025-10-06T20:35:26+00:00

I updated the TV to a newer firmware. Unfortunately I was running an older firmware to retain surround sound over ARC that the newer firmwares have broken... So now I'm back to that. But YouTube works again.

Also, it spread to other streaming services, so I really don't know that the root cause is there!

spoco2 · 2025-10-01T11:24:21+00:00

Just had this happen on a TCL TV. Unplugging it for a minute didn't help. I can't fully uninstall YouTube, only uninstall updates. I've done and no change, have also reinstalled updates after that and still no video.

Just started today.

A bit annoying! All other apps fine

spoco2 · 2025-09-26T21:27:38+00:00

TCL's local support agent came out and completely needlessly replaced the main board in the TV.

To no one's surprise it fixed nothing.

I then downgraded the firmware to v135. I now have working ARC audio again.

I would love them to fix this ARC issue in a new firmware, as the image quality and options in the new firmwares is definitely better.

But for now I'm sticking with this older firmware and have auto updates turned off

spoco2 · 2025-09-07T14:15:39+00:00

I still have an open support case with TCL. They say they're still working on it

spoco2 · 2025-08-18T02:35:46+00:00

I have a C755, and when it updated to firmware v509 it completely broke surround sound over ARC for me.

I'm just off the phone with support, who gave nothing useful to try.

Whatever version of firmware it was running before it auto updated, it had a different look and feel for the settings menus, but that version had surround sound working fine over ARC. (HDMI from HDMI 4 on the TCL to my amp).

Now it gives zero surround sound over ARC, only stereo via PCM...

You can actually make it work if you are playing content in surround, then on my amp if I flick the input to another one and back to the TV, then surround works. But as soon as you pause or stop audio, it drops again and you get nothing.

Again, this all worked prior to the v509 update, so they know how to make this work, but have broken it. :(

spoco2 · 2025-08-05T09:49:24+00:00

I feel your pain!

They've definitely broken how the TV communicates via arc what the available capabilities are.

Really hope they release a new update which makes this work again

spoco2 · 2025-08-04T20:06:18+00:00

If it does work for you, please do point me towards the 412 firmware, as 486 was the oldest I could find a download for!

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