I found a way to sort of do a manual recording. This is a true example. With the pending snow storm in my area, our local news has a weather newscast on Sunday at 11:00AM for my local Fox 25.1 in Boston. I select that day and time wich is scheduled for some other 1/2 hour program. Then, I extended the end time by the maximum 3 hours, giving me a 3.5 hour manual recording.
ETA: Funny thing is, I’m having a hard time making it stick with either Roku or my Android Cell Phone. It clears when I exit the app. I think it is now sticking in place using an android dongle.
Time will tell.
It was really pretty easy to do. I installed Channels DVR software on my laptop. I’m using a HDHR tuner and it picked it up right away. So you have the expense of an antenna, a tuner (HDHR), and a laptop. Channels really is for the consumer. Once set up, I found it easier to use than the gen4. Not as simple as the legacy Tablo, but that’s what you get with ‘bells and whistles’.
Well, when using Plex as a DVR, I would get random crashes. Plex would refuse to delete some shows. It wouldn’t load sometimes and required me to shut it down and restart. I didn’t see any of that with Channels.
