We've been having some issues with the recorded TV shows. Most are stored on a 1TB WD Passport USB 3/2 drive. We've been having issues with the drive gratuitously dismounting during playback. I bought a USB 3 card on the chance that the issue was power since the drive gets its power over the USB connect and there was some web traffic that the WD Passport is something of a power hog. The first card I bought drew power from the bus and didn't work. It wouldn't mount the drive. I ordered a different card with an external power connector and it's works well. So far it's worked well and we've had no dismounts so it looks like power was the issue. The USB 3 interface is clearly faster though for playback of recorded video it doesn't really matter as the USB 2 was plenty fast enough.
We continue to have issues with wind causing pixilation of OTA TV. I may work on the antenna some more. The next step would be an external antenna. There are a couple of possible locations I'll try.
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