Welcome to Thunderdome

Posted: **Sun Jun 30, 2019 2:17 am**

I need to see what it does so I can figure out for who.

Posted: **Sun Jun 30, 2019 7:52 am**

Leisher wrote: I need to see what it does so I can figure out for who.

It's basically a 7" smart screen. It has google assistant, obviously. Can play youtube videos/youtube tv/google music, can show the weather, your google calendar, do reminders, timers, etc. And it's a clock.

Posted: **Sun Jun 30, 2019 1:53 pm**

Seems like a perfect kitchen aide.

Posted: **Sun Jun 30, 2019 3:03 pm**

Leisher wrote: Seems like a perfect kitchen aide.

We have one there, and one in my office.

At the end of the day, it'd be nice if it were bigger.

Posted: **Tue Jul 02, 2019 7:46 am**

I bought one. The gfriend prefers to eat food at the table, so I'll thwart her conversation plans with this.

Posted: **Sun Jul 21, 2019 9:41 pm**

I both like it, and dislike it. I like saying "Play *whatever music I'm in the mood for* "

But then I don't like saying, "What's the weather today." But I wanna see the map to see what "scattered showers" actually looks like for me. "Show me a weather map for today" doesn't work. "Open weather.com" tells you that "I can't open websites." WTF?

And YoutubeTV is limited, on the device. The Google device can't give you full Guide/DVR functionality of a Google service. That is also hella lame.

And finally, it's been challenging to tell it to play music from my network M: drive. WHY would that be hard to set up? But apparently I've got to set up a chromecast or something from the server, and then have super limited functionality. I can't just say "Play music from the M drive," much less ask for a specific album or song. That's just fucking retarded.

Posted: **Mon Jul 22, 2019 7:49 am**

1 - Weather radar would be nice. I would expect a gen 2 (and hopefully larger) device out this Fall. Maybe it'll do more with the screen. I did this with a laptop screen a long time ago. But it wasn't a touch screen or voice response, so couldn't tell it to do much.

2 - I've only ever watched live stuff that I want in the background during meals or such. Didn't realize the other stuff was missing.

3 - I always use Google Music.

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2019 7:56 pm**

Wanted to watch the excellent opening NCAAM games, and Youtube TV is broken.

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2019 8:16 pm**

I noticed the guide was fucking itself a bit ago.

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2019 8:36 pm**

GORDON wrote: I noticed the guide was fucking itself a bit ago.

It fixed itself, at least for me.

Posted: **Tue Nov 05, 2019 9:23 pm**

I'm in a hotel watching live, regular TV and I feel like I'm in the dark ages.

Posted: **Wed Nov 06, 2019 1:51 pm**

TheCatt wrote:
GORDON wrote: I noticed the guide was fucking itself a bit ago.
It fixed itself, at least for me.

They gave me a free week of service for the 1 hour outage.

I was about to say you should have complained, too, but "ohhhhh, right..."

Posted: **Tue Dec 03, 2019 10:12 pm**

DVR just got a little better. No more switching recorded shows to video on demand, with unskippable ads.

https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/y ... 203422409/

Posted: **Tue Dec 03, 2019 10:17 pm**

GORDON wrote: DVR just got a little better. No more switching recorded shows to video on demand, with unskippable ads.

https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/y ... 203422409/

Finally.

Posted: **Tue Dec 17, 2019 6:38 am**

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC0GGkNZPgs

Posted: **Thu Feb 20, 2020 1:06 pm**

HBO Max coming to YouTube TV for an additional $14.99 a month.

Thanks, but no thanks!

Posted: **Thu Feb 20, 2020 1:26 pm**

Is that going to replace HBO Now?

Posted: **Thu Feb 20, 2020 3:26 pm**

GORDON wrote: Is that going to replace HBO Now?

I want to answer that, but I genuinely have no idea. I don't know what the difference is in the two services. I've been in both, and I didn't see a difference.

Posted: **Thu Feb 20, 2020 6:30 pm**

Leisher wrote:
GORDON wrote: Is that going to replace HBO Now?
I want to answer that, but I genuinely have no idea. I don't know what the difference is in the two services. I've been in both, and I didn't see a difference.

Yup, and at a discount.

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/heres-how-h ... next-year/

Posted: **Wed Apr 22, 2020 7:43 pm**

FYI:

This morning when I fired up YoutubeTV on my Roku Ultra, I got an error message, something about "Network not available." There was a "Back" button, but it didn't work. Had to hit the Home button and go back to the menu.

Network settings verified, was connected.

Netflix launched.

Googled the problem, there was a lot of talk about wifi settings, changing your DNS settings, etc. I'm hard wired, and this shit worked just last night. But I rebooted the device, reset the network, rebooted again, etc.

Ultimately, the only thing that worked was uninstalling the app from the Roku, and reinstalling. That worked immediately.