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Hi mate

You go into a hidden menu and load via the ip address, it sounds really hard but it takes only a few minutes. There are quite a few different apps you can load but the box can only hold one at a time. I use Plex as I have the server running on the machine in the living room attached to the TV (it's an HP mini server absolute brilliant buy highly recommended)

Heres some instructions

http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/08/sky-now-tv-plex/

They are stunning little boxes, they're essentially a Roku box with Sky branding on it.
 
Oh for anyone that wants to put a home server together this is an absolute steal with £125 cashback, £224 after cashback for an awesome machine:

http://www.ebuyer.com/670719-lenovo-thinkserver-ts140-xeon-e3-1226-v3-3-3ghz-tower-server-70a50022uk

Room for plenty of additional hard drives. I currently have an HP microserver N40L with 5 hard drives in it, Windows Storage Spaces whacks the whole lot together to show as one big hard drive and all my media files go on it. There's GBs of TV, Movies, Music etc (no filth lol) the kids have direct access to everything relevant to them from their tablets and their Xbox and both our mobile phones automatically upload all new photos, videos etc every time they hit the home network. Bit overkill for some people but it has made everything so easy, oh and because I have a Windows tablet that came with Office I have the important stuff backed up off site using Onedrive (1TB online space FREE).

It's actually a pretty good price to use as a "normal" PC too if you wanted to.
 
carrabuh said:
I've recently installed Kodi (via playstore) onto my phone and stream through it to the TV via chromecast. It does play up at times but it is mostly very good. I am considering buying an android box and connect through ethernet to eradicate issues watching it on TV.

I'd recommend you perhaps just try it on your phone or tablet and then you wont spend a penny. I've had no issues watching that way. It is a miles better picture than the web streams, no pop ups etc.

You need operation robocop for the Premier League pass (every game and I believe the games are repeated over and over), its so easy to do (it looks far more complicated than it is). I don't understand the not user friendly part because it is a great interface. Takes about 15 mins max to set up and I'm not kidding.

https://seo-michael.co.uk/tutorial-how-to-install-operation-robocop-video-add-on-kodi/

You have access to lots of things, music, gigs, films, documentaries, just masses of stuff.
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Are you watching Operation Robocop streams via chromecast? That will not work for me.
 
I'm watching via Operation Robocop streams through Kodi on my phone and then viewing my phone screen on the TV via Chromecast.
 
I have no idea what any of the above means <laugh>

I have a tv that offers many channels, most of them ****e. The good thing about this is that I continue to read books, without doubt my favourite pastime.
 
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carrabuh said:
I'm watching via Operation Robocop streams through Kodi on my phone and then viewing my phone screen on the TV via Chromecast.
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Yeah I just kept getting error messages when I tried to do this but I've got it to run through my Amazon Fire Stick now.

It's great.
 
ncgandy said:
I have no idea what any of the above means <laugh>

I have a tv that offers many channels, most of them ****e. The good thing about this is that I continue to read books, without doubt my favourite pastime.
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Very under rated reading, it's a shame kids don't seem to read as much today. I had a reading age of 13 when I started school, trouble was they then treated me like everything I did should've been that level too, had love for learning crushed out of me when I started school lol!!

I used to love reading but find it too difficult to do very often now so I listen to a lot of audio books on Audible, perfect for drowning out the wife's snoring hehehe
 
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As promised,my experience of Android TV box.

My son (who is computer savvy) installed it yesterday.
To an average intelligent techy guy,which I think I am,
I found the whole process baffling.It seemed over complicated
to access anything at all.We tried the live stream Everton game
and it kept buffering,picture quality was average,sound poor.
I played around with it but gave up in the end,I really did
not understand what I was doing.
I expected after the set up that there would be access
via the remote control to a "favourites menu" where
you could with one simple click access what you wanted
eg Football,Films etc.
As a £40 investment it's not expensive,but at this time
not for me.You may have more time and patience
to learn how to use it.
 
yarco canary said:
As promised,my experience of Android TV box.

My son (who is computer savvy) installed it yesterday.
To an average intelligent techy guy,which I think I am,
I found the whole process baffling.It seemed over complicated
to access anything at all.We tried the live stream Everton game
and it kept buffering,picture quality was average,sound poor.
I played around with it but gave up in the end,I really did
not understand what I was doing.
I expected after the set up that there would be access
via the remote control to a "favourites menu" where
you could with one simple click access what you wanted
eg Football,Films etc.
As a £40 investment it's not expensive,but at this time
not for me.You may have more time and patience
to learn how to use it.
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If you're running KODI you will need some add-ons, Fusion, Genesis and SportsDevil are a must, SportsDevil will access you first row sports and plenty of other links to the matches you want to watch. There are user friendly you-tubes out there showing you how to install these add-ons, then you can access through them.

Persevere with it, it's worth it.
 
Really the whole thing baffling? I can see your point in that the interface is a bit confusing but theres sooooo many youtube guides on this just watch, pause, copy. There are some automated installs kicking about too. It's not the easiest thing in the world but then if it was everyone would do it....
 
Rich44 said:
Really the whole thing baffling? I can see your point in that the interface is a bit confusing but theres sooooo many youtube guides on this just watch, pause, copy. There are some automated installs kicking about too. It's not the easiest thing in the world but then if it was everyone would do it....
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So are you saying that it's deliberatly made confusing to proclude
the vast majority of TV viewers?
I still stick to my original assessment of the kit,
that it could be(and probably will be eventually)
more user friendly.
I also said that £40 is worth the cost compared
to SKY,BT etc,but I felt it was only fair to point
out,what I thought.would be the problems experienced
by the majority of potential buyers to this site.
Certainly go for it if you want,and I hope you
have a better experience than I did.<ok><ok>
 
Just got one, lots of buffering and a relatively poor picture through pre installed phoenix giving sky sports. Will work on bulldogs and other bits tomorrow. If installing all this, would anyone/everyone advise a VPN? And where would you advise going for one? What does one cost? Are yhe free ones ok? Is totaVPN any good? What are others using?
I had to look up what a VPN was!

Bah!
 
How weird. I recognise this thread, but am maybe about to buy one soon, and totally forgot this was on here! I'm pretty close to buying one.

General, in terms of the Buffer. I saw a youtube vid. You load the channel. then pause straight away. Wait about 30 seconds or so, while it buffers. then press play, and it should play like normal TV. Have you done that? If you have and you still get that result, it might put me off buying it.
 
I've been wanting to get one of these but don't want to spend that money if it doesn't work probably and I have crappy internet so I'd probably get a dodgy picture.
 
As I said on previous posts it's only £40,
If it works it's worth it.
If you can't get on with it (like me) it
aint the end of the world:emoticon-0148-yes::emoticon-0148-yes:
 
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