A weekends worth. Friday it was the (should have been) straightforward replacement of an ailing modem/router. Except I read the wrong part of the settings needed, and only after calling support (third party router innit, can't help you mate
) did i carefully re-read the printout, and notice I needed to change the VLAN setting. So, sorted, eventually. The came the job of re-connecting all the wifi devices. That went surprisingly well, the Sonos, because I run them on their owm mesh, just needed power cycling. And the Echo Dot was simple enough to reconfigure too.
Then Saturday it was time to tackle the new! shiny! smart! TV. Wow, that was close - must be all of 5mm a side clearance in the alcove (I did measure before buying, honest). Turn on TV, spend oooh, 15 minutes running through the setup and connecting it to the network (for purposes of "casting"). Actually went quite well.
Then there was the hour spent resetting and repairing the powerline adaptors. I think it was finger trouble, pressing for too long and jumping beyond the stage I wanted to be at!
So, time to try the Airbeam "Mirror for Samsung" app. Managed to get the picture mirrored from phone to TV (I like to watch Australian V8 supercars and the only way is from within their "superview" app) but no sound. Email airbeam support, response goes to junk mail
. "Oh, our app won't work with safari (or Chrome, or Firefox .....) try Puffin or UC. And if you set your phone to silent (I do mainly) you won't get sound". Finally got it to work with Puffin. And then.....
I chose this TV because it meant I could cast to it directly and not via an Apple TV. I started to read the manual, and discovered that on Monday of last week (after I''d bought the TV) Samsung had started support for Airplay2! Ooooh thought I, that sounds good. Tried it, didn't work. Google. Ah, need to update the phone IOS as well.
That's as far as I got. Will double check TV firmware to make sure it's up to date, and then try again. I suspect it may take a while to shake out the bugs and get it working seamlessly, but in general pleased.
And today I took the plunge and decided to switch broadband from Plusnet to Vodafone..... That's bound to go well. But the Voda offer is 30% cheaper for he same rate, and Plusnet have been slowly going down as far as customer service is concerned (see comments above re setting up modem).