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Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - Apoc - 12-30-2016
I drop my phone all the time too... never seems to break... including when I tripped drunk a few years ago and accidentally flung it 20 feet into the streets of downtown Seattle. The only thing that got me this time around was crushing it with my La-Z-Boy. Sloth is a sin, fellas.
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - Sully - 12-30-2016
Finally setup the google home. Although I don't know how much use it'll actually get, it's somewhat entertaining so I think i'll hang on to it. Minus a hiccup on setup from poor wifi, it was pretty easy to setup. Doesn't have quite the level of compatibility with Google keep as I had hoped. Can only add things to the one google assistant list and not create separate lists as far as I've found. I spent a little while setting up keep and changing my voice settings on my phone. I didn't know google could get so much access into the phone with voice stuff. Pretty cool. Also found they updated the google keyboard so I can get my number row at the top which made me pretty happy. Oh, and my boss gave me a free case of hard cider today so it was a pretty good day I'd say. I'm excited for more features to come into play and maybe try a few home automation things and get a chromecast built in speaker or receiver and tv (works out since I'm considering vizio anyways) and see what that is all about. Definitely need to get something so I can cast music to real speakers.
My question to Justin or anyone else with one of these things, how do you handle the family situation. Like, I'm sure Casey uses it just as much but it seems like its kind of for one person once it's synced to your phone. I'm pretty new to the google eco system so maybe this is a stupid question but just seems like it wouldn't be ideal for two people to use heavily.
Not that anyone cares but as for the router thing. I ran a wired test using several different speed tests and came up with like 150 down and maybe 30 up (don't really remember exact up cause didn't care). ran a test for channel and there really is no good option. If I remember correctly, you want your signal touching as few as possible so in-between channels don't really work leaving you with 1,6,or 11. well they are all pretty congested at times and then almost no congestion at other times. the router has autoset to 11 and now 1. watching it currently, the only other person touching me is my neighbor on 2 but the channel traffic jumps around quite a bit. I setup the 5ghz channel and that is better when stuff can reach it. Google home is on 5ghz but its in the kitchen and the router is upstairs so we'll see if it keeps a good enough signal. I can get about an average of 25 down with the occasional 40 to 50 on the 5ghz band. I really don't know which channel would suit the 2.4 better as they jump around so much and none seem ideal except the one the router picks is probably the best of the worst choices. But reading back at what you said, I'm in a neighborhood so I'm sure the at most 5 people per channel isn't that bad compared to an apartment or urban area. And while the 5 is faster, it seems to have some connectivity issues when downstairs as to be expected I would think.
And I am using the shitty Comcast modem but should it matter since its giving me a decent wired speed?
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - Sully - 12-30-2016
Update: Nevermind. Apparently Google home just became my dad's new drinking buddy. He's fascinated that he can say any abstract old song from his younger years and it plays it.
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Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - Apoc - 12-30-2016
We aren't answering any tech questions until you fix your connectivity problem.
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - JustinG - 12-30-2016
Google is working on multi account support
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - Apoc - 12-30-2016
If only there was a device that worked with multiple Gmail accounts. :lol:
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - JPolen01 - 01-02-2017
Why did I wait more than 5 minutes to install Kodi on my Firestick? This is fantastic
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - Sully - 01-02-2017
Initial impressions of Google home + Chromecast audio.
Google home is pretty neat but definitely lacking in the details. Hopefully all things that can be fixed with updates.
The first little thing is I think it could be super handy for adding things to my grocery list while I'm in the kitchen. The only problem is it can only add things to the one Google assistant shopping list which is OK but sometimes I want to add things to other lists. Also Google now or whatever on my phone (non pixel) won't recognize that list when I'm talking to my phone. Even if I say Google assistant shopping list, it puts it on just a shopping list or even creates a separate list titled Google assistant shopping. Kind of annoying.
Chromecast audio is cool but it can't control devices which I knew going in and isn't a big deal but I did have a instance where I cast things to it and it would show it was playing on my home app but no sound. Had to hard reset and re setup the Chromecast and it works so we'll see if that happens again. It was the first day of use yesterday when it did this. You can't control volume though like even through the source of the home which I was a little surprised about. Also the home will focus on the car for things like pause and next song but if you tell it to play a different song by a different artist or title, it'll start playing on the home so you have to use the name of the Chromecast when you do that which also gets annoying but mostly when you have drunk people trying to control it.
It's also not as smart as reviews led on. It seems to struggle with alot of stuff. Like people were saying it could do things like play a song just by describing where you heard it, like from a movie. Definitely can't do that. It also tells you or can't do things yet for alot of questions so hopefully updates will help
In looking for compatible products, seems that's pretty limited right now too
Google play music seems to be pretty good but you can't save songs from home. Like you tell it to play something and then decide to tell it to save it to your library or even like the song and it can't. But you can thumb up songs in Pandora and I think Spotify. Makes no sense that it has less compatibility with its native music player.
I have 6mo free of play music and YouTube red and they are bundled so it's $10 a month for both. I'll probably do it once my trial is up. Between the two, should be able to find any possible song you could want
Overall I'm a little unimpressed at Google's abilities and compatibility. It seems like it's an unfinished product to be honest. Ability to update since it's all software based gives me hope but time will tell. Seems like companies come out with new products instead of updates now a days but Google should be better than that
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Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - Ken - 01-02-2017
JPolen01 Wrote:Why did I wait more than 5 minutes to install Kodi on my Firestick? This is fantastic
How exactly does Kodi work? I use Plex and love it (apparently you can now synch Plex to Kodi as well.) Do you obtain the content or is it streamed from some sketchy source?
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - JustinG - 01-02-2017
It's basically like stream torrenting.
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - JPolen01 - 01-02-2017
Kodi is the engine that runs it all. Then you install add ons. I'm using Exodus right now. It basically puts together an aggregate of streaming links. You choose what link you want and watch. Watched 3 movies so far and no buffering issues at all and bluray quality.
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - Ken - 01-02-2017
JPolen01 Wrote:Kodi is the engine that runs it all. Then you install add ons. I'm using Exodus right now. It basically puts together an aggregate of streaming links. You choose what link you want and watch. Watched 3 movies so far and no buffering issues at all and bluray quality.
Gotcha. Ehh, something about it sketches me out, I like being in control of what is being streamed and from where. Cool idea though.
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - JPolen01 - 01-02-2017
I mean you do control it. You get a list of links and the name of the site. All sites I have used in the past so nothing new for me there.
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - WRXtranceformed - 01-02-2017
Can you hack like this with Rokus? Or just the Fire Sticks
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - JPolen01 - 01-02-2017
WRXtranceformed Wrote:Can you hack like this with Rokus? Or just the Fire SticksA quick Google says that's a no go.
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - Gordonovski - 01-02-2017
Any of y'all know if you can spoof the mac address on a Google Home? I got one but the fascist internet at north won't work with it. Otherwise, I'm going to have to return it...
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - Ken - 01-02-2017
JPolen01 Wrote:I mean you do control it. You get a list of links and the name of the site. All sites I have used in the past so nothing new for me there.
Ehh, I feel more comfortable knowing the file is mine and streaming from a safe source (i.e. my desktop.) I'm sure it is fine, just a little precautious with those sites.
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - davej - 01-03-2017
who has a sound bar? I saw this one for $130 and it seems like a decent deal to someone who knows nothing about what's out there.
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I'm still trying to read up on the visio cast thing or whatever they call it, but it also looks like I can just bluetooth connect a phone/tablet and play music through it? Does anyone have one that can verify? It seems like hdmi in from the tv, and switch input to bluetooth for music streaming?
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - JustinG - 01-03-2017
Vizio cast is rebranded chromecast, I wanna pick up one of their 5.1 units when I upgrade TVs
Re: The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thre - WRXtranceformed - 01-03-2017
I have the bigger Vizio soundbar 5.1 with the rear satellite surround speakers and it's awesome. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CDIK908/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CD ... UTF8&psc=1</a><!-- m -->
It's the older version so it doesn't have SmartCast app but it does have Bluetooth, so I can connect anything with Bluetooth to it to play music. I have it connected to our TV with an optical cable. A few years ago I paid like $199 on black Friday for it so you should be able to find a lot better deal on a good 5.1 Vizio sound bar