Suddenly AppleTV on both my Shield Pro's is playing in a quarter of the screen, top right - although the menus and interface and overlays are all full screen - it's just the video.
Given it's on two independent Shield's connected to different TV's, I assume something in the Apple TV app has changed recently.
Can anyone else check this and confirm if they see the same?
Can anyone help me recognise this ONT - I have had CityFibre (Vodafone) coming up on 8 years now, so I assume this is the original and is only 1Gb capable?
Reason for asking - looking to move away from Vodafone (they won't offer me a faster service because they still have no upgrade path for people on the original ONT....) - but a couple of the other ISP's I've looked at *think* I have a faster one, as they are offering "no engineer visit required" installs.
Three weeks ago I reported my faulty dishwasher to Amazon, was told to expect a call from the engineer to arrange a repair visit, only for the status to change to "Your item is at our repair centre". This came as a surprise as it was still in my kitchen.
Two weeks ago, no updates so reported this - apologies from Amazon, they cancel the original repair request and raise a new one. Low and behold, four days later no engineer contact but again the status says "Your item is at our repair centre". The one in my kitchen clearly a mirage...
Oh, and I get an email telling me to "Back up my data and remove any passwords". From my Dishwasher.
Finally today I manage to reach an Amazon associate who actually knows what they are doing - gives me the right information, calls the service centre for me whilst I wait, passes me the reference and service booking numbers etc, confirms callout for Friday, good stuff!
Then says "And sorry for issue. We can offer you 15 against future purchase of Samsung Dishwasher".
Because I buy them all the time, right!?
Nice to see the house two doors up from me (the one that had well attended parties during COVID lockdowns and have a constant Union Flag flying from their personal garden flagpole), are having a barbecue underneath the tree line that runs along the back of our gardens.
I'd get the hosepipe on if there wasn't a ban. Gah.
For the first time in a year of being on Vine, a review has been marked "Not Approved" - every other review is Excellent.
It says "Review again" but when I click on that I get "We apologise but Amazon is not accepting reviews on this product from this account. For more information, please see our community guidelines"
This was the item https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GXY2GG8L
And the review that I gave, with 5 stars -
"I am really impressed with this docking station. It feels very well made, with a solid aluminium casing, and offers excellent value for the number of ports and connections you get.
I specifically got this to make using two different computers much easier. Instead of having to climb under the desk to unplug and sort out multiple monitor, keyboard, and mouse wires every time I want to switch between machines, I now have everything permanently plugged into this hub. Swapping between computers is now just a matter of moving one single USB-C cable from one device to the other. It works well and saves so much time and hassle.
To keep my setup as neat as possible, I actually attached the main unit to the wall behind my desk using sticky strips. Because it is a nice flat, lightweight aluminium block, it holds up there perfectly and keeps the desk completely clear of wire clutter.
If I had one issue it would be the length of the built-in host cable. It is a little bit on the short side, and having just a little bit more length would have made positioning and wall-mounting it much easier depending on where your laptop sits.
But overall though, it is a fantastic, highly practical piece of kit that does exactly what it promises. Great build quality, reliable connections, and it has made managing my desk setup so much easier, and comes highly recommended."
Did the seller really reject my review on the grounds that I made an honest comment about the length of the cable!?
Do I just ignore this on my list now - don't think I need to reach out to CS do I?
What to do about a wrong item that I returned - the Vine item anticipated was Toothbrush Heads but instead a pack of two USB cables arrived - I returned it, but the item still sits there in Vine awaiting a review?
Has anyone with the original 1Gb ONT managed to upgrade with Vodafone yet? I want to move from the 910Mbps to the 2.3Gbps service but I am constantly being told this is "not available". Yet, my neighbours either side both had it installed in the last 6 months...
I did try to explain to the Vodafone rep that it was because I had the original ONT (and have had this for 6 years with them now) but they had absolutely no idea what I was talking about. I mentioned CityFibre and the fact that Vodafone didn't seem to have an upgrade path but they just kept up the "computer says no" response.
Someone said to cancel and re-order, but when I asked Vodafone they said I could not even place a new order until after the cancellation had been completed, so that's a non-starter, and they did think it wouldn't matter as their system would still say my address would be on their system as only having the existing speeds available...
Making a heck of a noise in the hover, straight here from Husbands Bosworth Airfield and now buzzing the people of Bletchley for nearly half an hour. Anyone any ideas what's up?
My wife says "they're looking for someone, or something, somewhere" 😂
I give up trying to ask a sensible question on here due to the over zealous moderation that thinks I am trying to circumvent Wimbledon's rules. No matter how I phrase it, I guess that question is simply not going to get past (I even had to write this one three times).
So, suffice to say, I shall enjoy the Fery game tomorrow and the seat next to me on Centre Court will have to be for my strawberries.
I have Centre Court tickets for Wednesday.
Fery had better not be put on Court 1... else I'll be sat on the hill!
A sole voice suddenly shouting "Let's Go <name>, Let's Go" (clap, clap)
Often at inappropriate moments.
Does this annoy anyone else as much as it does me?!
Watching the England World Cup game with Conversate mode on, thought it might be useful for some background as I don't normally follow football.
But the data in the AI popups is so out of date, it's been more frustrating than useful.
Every time someone mentions Harry Kane, current score, best performance, next game, other opponents it keeps telling me the speaker is wrong and refers to the Euros in 2024.
What use the feature if it's so out of date!?
I've had my Even G2's since Saturday, so early days, but I've just programmed a Python server application that listens for Even AI agent messages, passes them on to OpenAI API, and responds to the glasses - it achieves near-realtime responses.
Bypasses the need for OpenClaw etc.
What you do:
Change the Even Agent to point to http://mydomain:myport/v1/chat/completions
Set a Token only you know.
Port forward "myport" in your Router to the same port on the LAN IP of your server running the Python app.
Server application listens for incoming webhooks, validates the Token, appends the incoming message to the log, with a date/time stamp. Then it polls the OpenAI API with your API key, delivers the reponse to the Even Agent to display on the glasses, and writes the outbound message to a log, with date/time stamp.
What you can define:
Timeout (Glasses stop listening after 30 seconds);
Number of re-tries if no response from API (set mine to 14 second timeout with 1 re-try);
Max characters for the reply (passed to API - have set default to 400);
Number of messages to store in the thread before discarding (to save API tokens - default 12);
Elapsed time since last message before closing the thread (default 600 seconds);
Which OpenAI model to use (GPT 4.1 seems to be a fast non-reasoning model).
Things you need:
Windows PC or server (can run on anything that can run Python, but on this version I gave it a System Tray icon so I can (a) see it's running, (b) view the log and (c) exit it cleanly);
Ability to port forward a public IP on your internet connection to a port on your PC;
OpenAI API account with an API key and some credits.
Handy if, like me, you have a Windows PC not doing much, and either a public IP or dynamic DNS with a domain that you can port forward. It's not necessarily horrendously secure, as it uses Flask, but you do specify a token on the webhook from the Even app, which only you would know, so it ignores it otherwise.
If anyone is interested and wants to use it or even improve on it, let me know - I am not familiar with Github etc else I would probably make it public (help with that also helpful!). Not sure how else to safely share it.
Now on Github: https://github.com/UniqueBanana78/EvenG2-OpenAI-Agent
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