HUH? These are timed installers that do go bad after x amount of months. This has nothing to do with HRD.
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As you pointed out, the author is the same author that started HRD. And that's a shame that you can't keep the installers for something that you find useful.
I would be very careful about getting too dependent on a piece of software that you can't reliably reinstall at a later date. That's just me.
I have now installed v3 on a Windows 10 machine. It accepted the NooElec without any modifications or patches. The only problem I've encountered so far is, there does not appear to be a "Remote Connection" button. Is this still a feature on v3? If so how do I activate it? Thanks Pete