Skippa landed about 12pm.
My 2 cents worth after initial inspection.
After some discussion on the look of the Skippa I'm quite happy with it. I always thought the photo on the Icetv website looked pretty crap but wasn't worried
if it did what it claimed to do.
The back panel however doesn't line up with the inputs. They're close but it means very slightly pulling the board down to line up correctly. The HDMI is fine as is but the antenna sockets are 1-2mm too high for the holes in the back panel. I don't think it will be an issue though just poor manufacturing.
The remote doesn't feel as bad as I thought it would from the board discussions. I haven't tried it yet though. I already have the Harmony setup so won't use it anyway.
Maybe a case of bad press bringing down expectations.
Of course I haven't plugged in yet. That will have to wait until I get home this afternoon.
Update:
After a few few hours with Skippa I havent really found any issues. I have the purple screen after Skippa has been in standby for a bit but it turns back on normally when you hit the power button on the remote and as the TV is off anyway not sure if it is a problem.
Recordings made on Skippa worked as normal and recording set on the Android app worked as well. Season passes on both Skippa and app show on Skippa. I have only tried setting a recording from the web site this morning so yet to see if that works. They did transfer through to the app though so I don't expect issues.
Catch up works well.
I am using a Harmony remote and except for a possible button error on my part it all worked well.
I did have an issue with moving a recording to my Surface but only tried it once. The surface saw the drive without issues.
I won't be using the Opera store as I prefer my Xbox One for Plex and didn't see anything else that I would use. Playing from a network drive worked fine but was slow getting through the folders. Skippa is plugged into a ac wifi extender with my Seagate Plex server on the ac wifi router so the wifi is certainly fast enough.
I only had 1 program for autoskip to work with last night and it seemed to work ok. I wish we had the option of turning off stations promos but otherwise it worked as advertised. Nothing tricky about the show though so will see how it works across the board.
So I'm pretty happy at this stage. It does what I need which is just record and use catchup. Hopefully it will continue to do this.
