2016-10-25, 09:39 AM
For the first time I got to use NPVR remotely outside of my home network. To my pleasing I had everything setup correctly in the network and NPVR worked like a charm. I had intended to try it out with my Android but something even better was available.
I recently was in the hospital and they only had abc/nbc/fox/cbs and a whole host of specialty hospital health programs/channels. Primetime would have been tolerable but day time, overnight and morning was miserable TV viewing. They did have a decent selection of pay per view with fee's added to you hospital bill.
I noticed when the hospital TV turned on it went through a few processes that made me think the TV was "smart". This hospitals TV's were smart tv's and even had a browser. It took me a day of getting sober from my procedure and some tinkering with the remote to figure out how the TV's smart features worked.
I finally got a browser opened and I pointed it to my NPVR home address and NPVR was there in the Modern Interface waiting like an old friend. I have a short, stupid domain that I use for my home network and I had a folder redirect setup to my NPVR making it easier to find. This is not it but it is like 123.com/npvr and it goes to NPVR much like 127.0.0.1:8866 would.
I got to enjoy TV options that weren't at the hospital, was able to watch recordings and even record a few that I would have missed by not being at home.
On a side note, one of the nurses came in and saw the "Netflix" type stuff on the TV and was wondering how I figured out how to pull all that up because they knew the TV's had "special" features that would let patients check their emails, Facebook, etc but they were too busy doing healthcare related stuff to learn the new TV system.
I gave her a little show and tell of my NPVR and also showed her how other patients can get to the smart features of the TV.
I would have had a couple miserable, boring days and a few months of waiting for an unplanned show to be in rerun's but NPVR saved the day.
I recently was in the hospital and they only had abc/nbc/fox/cbs and a whole host of specialty hospital health programs/channels. Primetime would have been tolerable but day time, overnight and morning was miserable TV viewing. They did have a decent selection of pay per view with fee's added to you hospital bill.
I noticed when the hospital TV turned on it went through a few processes that made me think the TV was "smart". This hospitals TV's were smart tv's and even had a browser. It took me a day of getting sober from my procedure and some tinkering with the remote to figure out how the TV's smart features worked.
I finally got a browser opened and I pointed it to my NPVR home address and NPVR was there in the Modern Interface waiting like an old friend. I have a short, stupid domain that I use for my home network and I had a folder redirect setup to my NPVR making it easier to find. This is not it but it is like 123.com/npvr and it goes to NPVR much like 127.0.0.1:8866 would.
I got to enjoy TV options that weren't at the hospital, was able to watch recordings and even record a few that I would have missed by not being at home.
On a side note, one of the nurses came in and saw the "Netflix" type stuff on the TV and was wondering how I figured out how to pull all that up because they knew the TV's had "special" features that would let patients check their emails, Facebook, etc but they were too busy doing healthcare related stuff to learn the new TV system.
I gave her a little show and tell of my NPVR and also showed her how other patients can get to the smart features of the TV.
I would have had a couple miserable, boring days and a few months of waiting for an unplanned show to be in rerun's but NPVR saved the day.
~Paul
If you haven't broken it at least once, you're not doing it right. :eek:
If you haven't broken it at least once, you're not doing it right. :eek:
