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About ScratchMonkey
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04-17-2020
06-25-2020
ScratchMonkey
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06-25-2020
10:57 AM
Ok, so I need to find Prime's app documentation somewhere.
The buttons I mentioned are the tiny dots between the up/down and left/right arrows.
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06-24-2020
08:49 AM
Aha! So the rewind button is a hold-to-activate and rewinds only when the button is held down?
Also, what are tiny "corner buttons" for, around the central arrow buttons? Do they do anything interesting?
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06-23-2020
09:50 AM
I just started using my new Flex to watch The Expanse on Amazon Prime. I'm up to S01E03 and thought I might want to switch away to watch something else. How do I get back again? Is there a way to save where I was?
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06-23-2020
09:47 AM
I started watching The Expanse from Amazon Prime on my new Flex box last night. I'm used to having an "instant playback" button on my TiVo and DirecTV remotes that jumps back a few seconds, for when I miss a line of dialog. Does the Flex remote have this? I don't see an obvious button for it.
Is there a guide online to reveal all the features of the remote? (I don't need a printed copy. A link is fine.)
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06-13-2020
01:49 AM
My problem turned out to be that I already had TV service and the wrong kind. @ComcastMartin was able to straighten that out and set me up.
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04-17-2020
03:22 AM
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I just got the email telling me I'm eligible to get Flex and I'd love to put a box on my family room TV. But I see no "Get Flex" option on the Flex web page. I can't use the xFi app to order it because I've got my router in bridge mode so I can use my own DHCP and DNS servers. I really don't want to to go the local Comcast store with the current shelter-in-place order if I can avoid it. (Even under normal circumstances I'd be waiting in line there for hours. I'd rather do things via a web form and have it delivered.)
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04-17-2020
03:19 AM
How do I disable the router's DHCP and DNS redirection and make it use my home server for that? Presently I've got it set to bridge mode and use my own router to accomplish that. But I'd love it if there was a less extreme way to accomplish this. Like providing me with a setting for the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses of my DNS servers, domain suffix list, and other DHCP configuration options to send to my devices.
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04-17-2020
03:04 AM
So Flex works with an Xfinity gateway in bridge mode? I have an Arris TG1682G in bridge mode because I need to run my own DNS and DHCP from my own server on my home LAN and I've seen no way to disable that on the Arris. It's also my understanding that the Arris doesn't address bufferbloat. So I run my Arris in bridge mode and use a ZyXEL running OpenWRT that provides the "cake" fair queuing algorithm to prevent lag and latency.
I'd love to take the Arris out of bridge mode. Just give me a way to disable DHCP and put cake on it.
I just got the email telling me my account is eligible to use Flex, so I've love to have a box for my family room TV to watch Amazon Prime. Is that going to work? How do I order the box?
More on cake here. (It's part of the standard Linux kernel and hence available in 3rd party router firmware. It's much better at sharing your connection than buying more bandwidth.)
https://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/codel/wiki/Cake/
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