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Yeah Plex is coming up pretty fast. They have an unofficial App Store where you can find quite a few good addons, some illegal and some legal.
They have the usual suspects you see with Kodi and then they have some interesting ones such as the LIVE TV ones such as TVHEADEND and WMC and the one that I am really interested in trying out:Talbo DVR addon. If you have a tablo DVR and this addon, it kind of cute out the necessity of having a dedicated PVR back end and I can use it with Kodi through PlexBMC but I am not sure if it provides full PVR features that Kodi does at the moment.
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Has anyone used USB with the new firmware? I am thinking about order a couple of thumb drives. I swear it is the Bermuda Triangle in my home when it comes to thumb drives. I keep buying them and they keep disappearing.
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I use plexbmc. But I still dont think its ss good and refined as kodi.. there is always some weird buggy behavior.
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I installed Plex, played around with it for a few hours, then uninstalled it. I don't want the network overhead of a dedicated media server. It has irritated me for years that I couldn't use my Rokus for my media but I refused to go in that direction. I still do a lot of streaming and I don't want be dropping out of HD because my wife is watching one of her shows via Plex.
At the risk of turning this back into a thread about the update. I happened to notice when I was setting up a new FTV yesterday that there is also a new developer option via USB.
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It is a combination of things. First off, yes, the machine that I would use if I was going to have a media server is older and most of my media is not in a format that Roku can handle. Secondly, at the time I installed Plex Netflix was not as reliable than they are today. Lastly, my network is already ridiculously busy.
I have always believed that keeping things simple will produce less headaches. Roku was designed to be a streaming box and supporting local media was an after-thought and one that they obviously don't intend on expanding. Between that and the fact they never seem to be future-proofed I have known for a long time I would eventually move on to a more complete solution. Not to mention that up until recently Plex was a banned subject for support questions.
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2015-04-20, 22:03
(This post was last modified: 2015-04-20, 22:17 by BeesKnees.)
Well, to be fair, I never really tested the theory that it would be a problem. I just hated the idea of it. I am a big believer in K.I.S.S. (keep it simple, stupid). My wife actually helps me rip which is pretty cool but it doesn't negate the impatience when things are not going like they should.
Anyway, we have hijacked this thread a little too much at this point.
ETA: Before someone thinks I am foolish (or more foolish) I should also explain that at the time of my trial with Plex it was not always possible to have 2 HD streams from Netflix so adding more overhead was the last thing I was going to do.
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I hope they release a firmware update that allows for volume control. I dont know how you would use he current remote but the lack of volume control severely bothers me.
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Is there a way to get FiredTV to launch automatically? Every time I accidentally hit the home button I get kicked back to the main menu.
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(2015-04-28, 21:02)BradD Wrote: Is there a way to get FiredTV to launch automatically? Every time I accidentally hit the home button I get kicked back to the main menu.
It's a setting in FiredTV.