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I had an exceptionally pleasant weekend, finishing with a day off yesterday.
I achieved something on Sunday I’ve been trying to do for weeks.
The story is that I use my computer as storage for soft copies of my DVDs. Go me, and very convenient it is, too. But for years I’ve had to use my PS4 to access those soft copies using a system called Plex. Plex comes as a program on the computer and an App on the PS4. That PS4 App has never worked quite as it should; the PS4 would run for 45 minutes, then drop signal for no obvious reason, then I’d have to restart the PS4 and go on with my interrupted TV.
I knew that the TV, being a Smart TV, should also have the Plex app on it. But I’d never been able to get that to work at all. When I tried all I got was an incomprehensible error message about the IP address. Starting on Saturday, I decided to track that error message to its lair and work out what it meant. This I did, finally ending up on Sunday looking through the help files online on the Plex web pages.
It turned out that what I needed to do was to put the IP address of my TV into the Plex program on the computer and what should happen did happen. It finally worked. No ifs, no buts, no sudden drop outs. Much joy. I’ve finally been able to watch my film collection undisturbed.
I am a bear of very little mind and enjoy my TV even when it turns my brains to mush.
Monday
On Monday, after a discussion on Facebook in which we discussed the likelihood of being able to go to Wales in August, I decided that I might need to run my yearly adventure of “Rome with Magic” on Roll 20. With Roll 20 having a very steep learning curve, and “Rome with Magic” being an AD&D2e game I further decided to start now because that way I stood a chance of having the game ready for August.
So spent Monday happily engaged in trying to get my AD&D2e PC characters onto Roll 20. For some reason, Roll 20’s AD&D2e character sheet is even more complex and hard to understand than the D&D5e sheet. I’ve asked my players to help.
I also spent time playing with creating dungeons using one of their dungeon design thingies. So that was great, it’s just the kind of thing I enjoy.
Happy times.
I achieved something on Sunday I’ve been trying to do for weeks.
The story is that I use my computer as storage for soft copies of my DVDs. Go me, and very convenient it is, too. But for years I’ve had to use my PS4 to access those soft copies using a system called Plex. Plex comes as a program on the computer and an App on the PS4. That PS4 App has never worked quite as it should; the PS4 would run for 45 minutes, then drop signal for no obvious reason, then I’d have to restart the PS4 and go on with my interrupted TV.
I knew that the TV, being a Smart TV, should also have the Plex app on it. But I’d never been able to get that to work at all. When I tried all I got was an incomprehensible error message about the IP address. Starting on Saturday, I decided to track that error message to its lair and work out what it meant. This I did, finally ending up on Sunday looking through the help files online on the Plex web pages.
It turned out that what I needed to do was to put the IP address of my TV into the Plex program on the computer and what should happen did happen. It finally worked. No ifs, no buts, no sudden drop outs. Much joy. I’ve finally been able to watch my film collection undisturbed.
I am a bear of very little mind and enjoy my TV even when it turns my brains to mush.
Monday
On Monday, after a discussion on Facebook in which we discussed the likelihood of being able to go to Wales in August, I decided that I might need to run my yearly adventure of “Rome with Magic” on Roll 20. With Roll 20 having a very steep learning curve, and “Rome with Magic” being an AD&D2e game I further decided to start now because that way I stood a chance of having the game ready for August.
So spent Monday happily engaged in trying to get my AD&D2e PC characters onto Roll 20. For some reason, Roll 20’s AD&D2e character sheet is even more complex and hard to understand than the D&D5e sheet. I’ve asked my players to help.
I also spent time playing with creating dungeons using one of their dungeon design thingies. So that was great, it’s just the kind of thing I enjoy.
Happy times.
