Some background Ian has been ‘into’ music since being a young teenager, age 13 he started doing paper rounds. If anyone remembers those, to fund the purchasing of LPs / vinyl. Ian did two paper rounds in the morning before school, then one after school. Part of a typical Saturday Read more
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4K Fire Sticks are great. We’re very pleased with them. It’s great, but sometimes there’s a problem with connectivity, probably more related to Wi-Fi. As a result, Ian decided to hard-wire the Fire Sticks directly into the house’s Gigabit network. The Fire Sticks connection to power, and the world is Read more
We are happy to share our settings in .pdf format for the cost of a , these settings took us a little time to work out.
We used to subscribe to Now TV as they have some good content, but we got fed up of the monthly ‘Boost’ charge of £6.00, which we feel is a total rip-off. Now we regularly get emails from Now TV offering special deals, the latest is entitled “your killer offer Read more
In 2017, we purchased a Synology DS716+II along with two Seagate IronWolf 8 TB hard drives, which we set up in the NAS as mirrored drives using RAID 1. Our plan was to store all our FLAC music, movies, photos, and more on it. We also installed the Plex Media Read more
This page is under construction On our “Replacing PLEX Media Server“ page, we partially explain why we wanted to move from PLEX as our own local streaming source. Another factor in our decision was that, at some point, our Synology DS716+II could suffer a hardware failure or not have the Read more