Non cycle related fettling today. I finally lost patience with the Humax PVR, impressive though it’s spec is, with triple tuners and HDMI-CEC control, and all the jiggery-pokery one can do with remote access etc. etc.. Problem is the OS is dog slow and buggy as hell. Recently, for no reason, when starting up the list of recordings would be absent, requiring a hard reset to bring back. So, it’s still hooked up to the TV and we’ll play back the recordings on it, then I’ll reformat it and stick it in the loft or sell it.
On to the (minor) fettling. That involved setting up the new shiny Manhattan T3-R PVR. Only twin tuners, but the user interface is quick and slick, and if there is something I can’t record due to a clash it has the facility to add to a watch list, which when accessed at a later date, will play the “watched” programme from whichever catch-up app is appropriate. Only downside is the inability to use an external storage device, but I suspect that will come eventually.
ETA forgot to add, set up the bird feeder on the patio outside the kitchen door. Then remembered I buggered up the (horribly expensive) “Squirrel Buster” peanut feeders in the dishwasher earlier in the year, so had to buy some more.
