| brobostigon | morning boys and girls. | 07:50 |
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| zmoylan-pi | o/ | 08:59 |
| brobostigon | o/ | 09:01 |
| zmoylan-pi | plans for today. walk to local market and have a rummage... avoid rain if possible | 09:06 |
| zmoylan-pi | it's ireland, it won't be :-) | 09:06 |
| brobostigon | :) | 09:28 |
| daftykins | only just discovered that Channel 4 HD has disappeared from freesat, sheesh | 20:16 |
| daftykins | apparently they don't want to pay the rates | 20:16 |
| diddledan | yeah, sucky | 20:20 |
| diddledan | the question is if you can still tune them directly by knowing the service id or if their bskyb variants are encrypted | 20:22 |
| daftykins | hrmm | 20:23 |
| diddledan | it'll require faffing about though if it is still tunable | 20:23 |
| daftykins | indeed | 20:24 |
| daftykins | my ~2014 model samsung upstairs can be set to 'satellite' instead of 'freesat' and get all the channels that are unencrypted on sky, like you say - made me laugh | 20:25 |
| daftykins | there's no guide data though so they all get jumbled up in a nasty order | 20:25 |
| diddledan | yeah. there's no hand-holding when you use a raw dvb-s mode | 20:25 |
| ali1234 | thats because of the way freesat is licensed | 20:25 |
| diddledan | ages back I got a dbv-s2 card for my pc. still haven't managed/bothered to get it set up properly because it's confusing me | 20:26 |
| daftykins | *nod* there are all kinds of ways of dumping the data to a flash drive then juggling it around but - i don't even use broadcast, i just tuned it in because i had the fun of laying and terminating fresh coax for the services in my place whilst i had access to the scaffolding | 20:26 |
| daftykins | diddledan: i've been tempted to play with a card in a PC for a backend to share out over the network to Kodi instances... but again, broadcast TV :D | 20:27 |
| daftykins | you can get those HDhomerun devices that pop freeview straight onto the network, too | 20:27 |
| diddledan | :-) apart from the requirement for Flash for some of them, it's easier to use the catchup services for bbc, itv and channel4 | 20:28 |
| diddledan | although I suppose the islands are blocked from those | 20:28 |
| daftykins | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Silicondust-HDHR5-2DT-HDHomeRun-CONNECT-Tuner/dp/B07BFNRGN9/ | 20:29 |
| zmoylan-pi | send a drone to the mainland with a high def camera and watch someones tv there from home... :-P | 20:29 |
| daftykins | nah they're open afaik, but there's that login rubbish now for the BBC yeah? | 20:29 |
| diddledan | I've got an earlier model of those | 20:29 |
| diddledan | yup. gotta login to allow them "to tailor the service to you" | 20:29 |
| daftykins | :D | 20:30 |
| daftykins | it's a trap! | 20:30 |
| daftykins | you don't get many channels down here on freeview as the channels don't want to pay to cater for the Channel Islands | 20:30 |
| daftykins | i wonder if it's the same for the Scilly isles, been a while since i was in touch with some lads from down there | 20:31 |
| diddledan | https://media.giphy.com/media/srTYyZ1BjBtGU/giphy.gif | 20:31 |
| diddledan | I decided not to use Admiral thingy from Start Warts | 20:31 |
| daftykins | cunning, i don't even recognise that one | 20:32 |
| zmoylan-pi | mad max i think | 20:32 |
| diddledan | mad max's furry road | 20:32 |
| daftykins | ah still never seen | 20:32 |
| zmoylan-pi | well look at the conditions... no way to shave that road... | 20:32 |
| daftykins | hmm the HDHomerun would actually be a quite nice solution for my client, piping them TV down to Spain | 20:33 |
| daftykins | not sure which client devices would be appropriate though | 20:33 |
| daftykins | ideal if their TVs could tune in of course :> | 20:33 |
| daftykins | actually given the VPN is already in place to his London pad, any of the TV based apps would likely do it direct | 20:34 |
| daftykins | ooh there's a FireTV app allegedly? | 20:35 |
| daftykins | oh Plex too, that might be on some smart TVs | 20:36 |
| diddledan | plex'll record, too | 20:37 |
| diddledan | in fact that's it's primary raison d'etre | 20:37 |
| daftykins | almost wouldn't mind picking up one of the dual tuner models to have a play, just found the amazon app store app for the hdhomerun | 20:42 |
| daftykins | clients don't have a FireTV down in Spain, mind | 20:42 |
| daftykins | i think they're going to end up happy with just amazon prime and iplayer working over it | 20:46 |
| zmoylan-pi | pffft, they'll get a betamax player and like it! :-P | 20:48 |
| daftykins | :D | 20:49 |
| zmoylan-pi | will silence any hipsters who visit... :-D | 20:49 |
| daftykins | imagine the fun of combing the south of Spain trying to find betamax tapes with the added complications of the language barrier | 20:49 |
| daftykins | oh i dunno if i mentioned i used the google translate android app to translate their ISP's letter the other day, that was fun | 20:50 |
| zmoylan-pi | you'd put a rasp pi inside the betamax altering the outputted signal to overlay subtitles in the language you choose :-P | 20:51 |
| daftykins | with a clever script to detect the 9 o'clock news and pause the subs | 21:30 |
| zmoylan-pi | or flip the channel when keywords are mentioned... +++brexit+++ ::flip:: | 21:34 |
| zmoylan-pi | drop and give him 20... :-( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Lee_Ermey | 23:27 |
| daftykins | holy moly | 23:28 |
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