New Nvidia Shield TV update available, but might cause Google Home issues

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The Nvidia Shield TV is getting another new update, but a known issue is that it could break support for Google Home.

The Nvidia Shield TV’s most recent release is around five years old at this point, but it’s still a supported device that gets occasional updates. The last update was made available in beta in October, and there’s already another coming. In the works currently is a new, third hotfix update on top of the 9.1.1 update that launched in 2022.

This latest hotfix, Nvidia explains, brings “security enhancement” for 4K DRM content playback, as well as support for parental controls in the French language. However, the update comes with a significant known issue. For the 2019 release of the Shield, the update breaks support for Google Home.

As such, Nvidia says the update is only being enabled at first for the 2015 and 2017 generations of Shield while it waits on Google to fix the Home issue on the 2019 models. “Google Home will be broken with this hotfix” is still listed as a known issue, though, so it’s unclear if the update still breaks Home support on the 2015 and 2017 releases. Some users who have installed the update on older generations haven’t mentioned any issues.

The third version of the 9.1.1+HotFix will be enabled shortly as version 33.2.0.295 but at this time it is only enabled for the 2015 and 2017 SHIELDs. The update will break Google Home integration for 2019 SHIELDs now. We are waiting for Google to fix an issue uncovered in the release for those devices.

Added French parental control
Security enhancement for 4K DRM playback

Known Issues

Google Home will be broken with this hotfix

The update is available now in beta, but Nvidia still has not announced any timeline for when the updates made in its three hotfixes on top of Shield Experience 9.1.1 will roll out to all users. Interested users can sign up for Shield TV hotfixes here, but it’s important to note that there’s no way to revert back once a hotfix has been installed.