My DISH receiver is bought, not rented. Supposedly mine according to a receipt.
From Dish's perspective, they offer a $40 DVR "feature" where they activate your ability to record their movies on your external hard drive which is plugged into a USB slot in the back. There's also a handy RJ45 receptacle on the back and I've gotten it to at least respond to PuTTY.
That's not what I want, just saying.
The TV is older and I don't watch that much, but it'd be nice to access the home cloud either with Plex running on the other end or drag movies to an external hard drive that you have to buy yourself.
There's no way I'd be interested in tampering with Dish's services, but the hardware is mine and I'm suffering from an entitlement complex - I can't so much as watch family videos made 40 years ago unless I've got PC next to it with fans blazing and headphone-out audio.
I don't expect a solution, but thought to bring it up. I already bought a ROKU box at a thrift store to watch programming over LAN but it's likely shot, or my lone 5v 2.5 A power supply is shot.
Oh, by the way, my DISH receiver takes up 23 watts when on, and 20 watts OFF! Serious, when it goes into power saving mode, that only shaves off three watts all night. If you think that' bad, online there are a lot of irate people who have higher end DISH receivers taking up 60 watts!
So I'd tweak the power settings as well.
From Dish's perspective, they offer a $40 DVR "feature" where they activate your ability to record their movies on your external hard drive which is plugged into a USB slot in the back. There's also a handy RJ45 receptacle on the back and I've gotten it to at least respond to PuTTY.
That's not what I want, just saying.
The TV is older and I don't watch that much, but it'd be nice to access the home cloud either with Plex running on the other end or drag movies to an external hard drive that you have to buy yourself.
There's no way I'd be interested in tampering with Dish's services, but the hardware is mine and I'm suffering from an entitlement complex - I can't so much as watch family videos made 40 years ago unless I've got PC next to it with fans blazing and headphone-out audio.
I don't expect a solution, but thought to bring it up. I already bought a ROKU box at a thrift store to watch programming over LAN but it's likely shot, or my lone 5v 2.5 A power supply is shot.
Oh, by the way, my DISH receiver takes up 23 watts when on, and 20 watts OFF! Serious, when it goes into power saving mode, that only shaves off three watts all night. If you think that' bad, online there are a lot of irate people who have higher end DISH receivers taking up 60 watts!
So I'd tweak the power settings as well.