I swear this #Sling #AirTV Anywhere box is so freakin' half baked. Yeah it's cool to have my local OTA channels added to the #SlingTV guide along with being able to record them too... But Sling provides absolutely no way to set up a series recording on an OTA channel, it's on an individual episode basis only. Then to add insult to injury, y'know how I mentioned that local channels aren't available on certain platforms like my LG WebOS TV? Well today I found out you can't even work around the problem through casting to it or a Chromecast - you just get an error that says you aren't allowed to.

As it stands, I can't recommend adding any of the AirTV boxes to your Sling account unless you only use Sling on a phone, tablet, or PC - and even then it's way more limited than it should be.

So I went ahead and hooked up the #Sling #AirTV Anywhere... And oh boy do I have some Thoughts™.

The tuner is really good! It easily pulls in channels that my old TiVo struggled with. And streaming to compatible devices works pretty darn well - it loads fast and the picture quality is pretty darn good.

Except it's not compatible with all of the ways to view Sling TV. It works great streaming OTA channels through the Android app and the web interface, but my primary interface for Sling is the app on my LG WebOS-based TV which can't view the OTA channels. Even on supported platforms, finding the OTA channels in the SlingTV guide is kinda hot garbage because it doesn't order them by channel number or anything, and I haven't yet discovered how to remove OTA channels I don't want... The initial setup process gave me that option but I can't find a way to get back to it. Sling doesn't offer any capability to hide channels in the guide either (which is infuriating when wading through all the "freeview" garbage they've shoved in there too).

So yeah. It's nice to have the OTA channels in my Sling guide... But the experience really has me wishing my TiVo supported Sling so I could use that for OTA instead.