No Boiled Seafood Allowed
How about fried seafood?
Spent most of the morning wrestling with hooking up a new LED TV for Sally’s mom. It is a Fire TV recommended by her son-in-law. The only way forward past picking out English for your language is signing into Amazon. She wasn’t sure she had an account. We tried signing up using her email – xxxxx.webtv.net – and she had some vague idea of a password once used many a year ago. This, of course, did not work. So I signed in as me, and after setting everything up, I logged out.
The real fun began when I had to replace the small TV in her bedroom, which looked like a 17″ computer monitor, with the 32″ Sharp-Roku TV from the living room. First off, she really doesn’t use the Roku end of it; everything comes in via the HDMI cable from the Direct TV box. To turn on the TV, she uses the Roku remote, then uses the DIRECTV remote to change channels, and then goes back to the Roku remote to control the volume.
The way this TV was working was, they’d turn it on, and when the Roku TV showed the “installing update” whirly thing, the TV would be turned off and then back on to get rid of the update prompt. Unfortunately, there was no way to get to the Roku settings to fix this; the TV booted up to the HDMI input, and hitting the Home button did nothing. When I moved it to the bedroom, for some reason the sound would come on at a level, and it wouldn’t vary with the remote like before. I tried unplugging it for a minute and plugging it back in with no success. I next tried to reset the TV by holding the power button for a minute, but that caused the TV to come back on with a controllable volume but no PICTURE! This went back and forth a couple times, and I threatened to go to Best Buy and get her another new TV.
The internet had told me to reset it by unplugging it for 30 seconds and turning it back on by holding down the power and volume down buttons while plugging it back in; her TV didn’t have any buttons except the power one. So I tied a modified version of it by plugging it in while holding down just the power button. Bingo, bango, bongo; Roku home screen. I hooked it to the wireless network and updated the TV. It now works as it’s supposed to.
Phew, it was touch and go for a while as to who was going to prevail.
The afternoon went much smoother; we took a trip to Home Depot, Sally got her haircut, we took a walk in the park next to the VRBO, and a pizza for dinner.