Re: The Brand New Tech Thread... : Tue Oct 02, 2012 8:25 am  

GraftonRed wrote:

Anyone having or had trouble with sky recording. It's been doing it for a while now but getting worse. After doing a recording in the planner it says "part recorded" and when you try and watch it it freezes for a few seconds and you get the message "Recording interrupted by loss of signal". I have been on various sky forums and this is fault 7 and no one seems to get any joy from sky over this problem. Resets and new boxes don't resolve the problem. I can't be a###d to spend hours on the phone with them so if anyone has had this issue can you let us know how you got on.

Have you checked to see if your house has fallen down again?

Re: The Brand New Tech Thread... : Tue Oct 02, 2012 4:14 pm  

Him wrote:

Could it be your satellite dish? We had a problem a while ago where we had issues with recording and signal and it turned out the dish lost line of sight every now again because a tree had grown and when the wind blew the branches and leaves blocked the line of sight.

No trees to worry about, signal strong, records non HD channels ok, problem seems to have arose after the planner update.

Sandra The Terrorist wrote:

Have you checked to see if your house has fallen down again?

House is still intact at the mo.

Re: The Brand New Tech Thread... : Wed Oct 03, 2012 9:13 am  

Can I just ask you techies a question about something re Leigh Centurions?

I want to try and set up a Man of The Match Vote, on the big screen at LSV. Is there a cheap way of doing this without subscription to an online site?

I was either thinking of running it free, or maybe something like 10p per text to raise a few quid for the club. Is there a simple way of doing this, so we can have on the screen 'to vote for your man of the match text MOM and a players name to 123456'

Then we can post the result up after 75 minutes and maybe if the idea takes of we can find a decent sponsor for it.

Re: The Brand New Tech Thread... : Wed Oct 03, 2012 11:19 am  

iTunes question. I have a playlist, I want the playlist to start playing about 5/6 mins after I leave the room. I don't have any way of physically going over and clicking play, so is there a way to set some sort of timer on a playlist? Or is there a way to set a playlist to play between certain times?

Re: The Brand New Tech Thread... : Wed Oct 03, 2012 6:44 pm  

If you had an iPhone and were connected to same Wifi, you could, I think.. There's an app called 'remote' that lets you control iTunes

Re: The Brand New Tech Thread... : Wed Oct 03, 2012 10:12 pm  

Roddy B wrote:

iTunes question. I have a playlist, I want the playlist to start playing about 5/6 mins after I leave the room. I don't have any way of physically going over and clicking play, so is there a way to set some sort of timer on a playlist? Or is there a way to set a playlist to play between certain times?

Intriguing!

Re: The Brand New Tech Thread... : Wed Oct 03, 2012 10:53 pm  

Steve-O wrote:

If you had an iPhone and were connected to same Wifi, you could, I think.. There's an app called 'remote' that lets you control iTunes

I have an iPod Touch. That could potentially work but isn't ideal.

Re: The Brand New Tech Thread... : Thu Oct 04, 2012 6:33 am  

Roddy B wrote:

iTunes question. I have a playlist, I want the playlist to start playing about 5/6 mins after I leave the room. I don't have any way of physically going over and clicking play, so is there a way to set some sort of timer on a playlist? Or is there a way to set a playlist to play between certain times?

Create a blank mp3 file in Audacity for the length you need, set that as the first in the playlist and away you go.

Re: The Brand New Tech Thread... : Thu Oct 04, 2012 8:40 am  

I'm assuming I stumped you all!

Re: The Brand New Tech Thread... : Thu Oct 04, 2012 6:03 pm  

jonny the leyther wrote:

I'm assuming I stumped you all!

Yup
It is possible but how cheap you can get it for I don't know