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Recording to an SMB location would definitely be a nice option. However it will come with it's own set of issues that as a developer you'd need to take into consideration. For one, you need to keep in mind that and SMB location may be used by more than one device at a time to record or even playback. So now, you would need to move the metadata for each recording to the same directory as the recording to ensure someone playing something recorded by another box, can also see the metadata (program name, description, etc..). So this is a change from the current method. There are a few different scenarios which need to be considered. Having said that, I would love to be able to use a share on one of my NAS servers as a recording destination, and then being able to playback from any of my other devices on my home network. Not a huge deal breaker for me, since I often forego recording something and just wait for the next day and catch it on the TV Series section of my service, or I just use "catchup" option after it has aired.

When you said you have already tried resets on the boxes, you meant HARD resets ? By typing 1986 into you the remote from the home screen ? This is odd. Maybe reach out to their Customer service email cs@buzztv.com

Do you by any change have any usb key or drive attached to it ? If so, remove it for the update, just in case.

I usually just leave it on overnight when I'm done.

Did you leave the box on, and leave it alone for a while ? The L1 does not update like other boxes. You need to leave it on and it will eventually take it's update.

If using XC, you should have been given a URL, username and password (and those are the fields available on all buzz boxes). If you were just given an M3U playlist URL, typically your username and password are embedded in the URL they gave you, which is why you do NOT have a username/password field separate when creating an M3U playlist.

Try unpairing the remote, and re-pairing it again.

Keep in mind that you can create multiple favorites lists. So you can have one for each person in the home, one list for Sports, one for Movie channels, one for your International channels, or whatever your heart desires And channels can appear in multiple channel lists if you wish.

I am not a fan of "suspend" on any box (except when there is no choice like google certified boxes). But as Ryu suggests enable the "fast login" option. Can either do it in the server screen for your server, OR you can go into menu->settings->configuration and you should have an option in there called "login tyoe". This will force the box to use the already pre-loaded channel list and not re-load it all the time, so it should be very quick to load. However keep in mind, this does come with one downside. If your service provider adds/removes channel, categories or movies things around, or changes stream links, you will not be up to date. So once in a while if you have an issue, go into Menu, and select "refresh" option to reload all the channel list. At least this way, you can choose the refresh interval. Example, some services will add dedicated categories for stuff like playoffs, FIFA, Olympics, etc.. You would need to do a manual refresh to see those categories if using the "fast login" option.

That is the username/password. Not sure, but I think the .ovpn files are in the other "locations" tab. You might have one per location. I don't have surfshark, so can't really confirm. Typically it is a .ovpn file that you end u downloading. For Windscribe, I know I have a different file for each location I want to use.

You are NOT downloading surfshark APP. You can't install the surfshark app on the L1. You need to log into your surfshark account and download and OpenVPN config file for the server you want to connect to and you import that. Here os a good starting poiint. Except, instead of importing to OpenVPN app of some other platform, you are importing it to the L1. https://support.surfshark.com/hc/en-us/articles/18230943234322-Where-to-find-servers-for-a-manual-connection

If you talk in PM, why post useless info for others causing confusion ?

And I don't know how you say you tried rtmp when it is not even a stream format option in the app. M3U8 and TS are the only 2 stream formats. If you don't follow what I told you in my last posting in the other forum (as nbs mentioned), it will never get fixed. Devs won't waste time trying to fix anything that they can't reproduce.

I'm sure it was just an oversite and Buzz will add it. Considering the OK button does nothing when you are playing Catch-up anyhow, figured may as well do it like VOD (no need for arrow down) and have it just toggle play/pause directly on screen which shows the timeline which you can FWD/RWD through the Catch-up anyhow.

Don't know where you got a pause feature, but I checked on v330 and on v347 and there is no pause functionality. I don't even see how you would actually pause since there is no obvious play.pause control. I can go forward and backwards no problem, but there is no pause control as far as I can see. And just pressing the OK button does NOT play/pause. Maybe that would be more of a feature to be added, similar to when you are playing VOD and OK button will toggle Play/Pause icon which is on the left.