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royw – Most Belkin routers do have this setting – specify model number or search for the words “Belkin Model number, ‘address reservation'”
Once the Humax has an automatic connection, if you set the IP address allocation in the router to Static for the Humax, the router should recognise next time the Humax sends an address request through and allocate the same one as before, as for other fixed address devices that you have defined.
The router should know which ones are pre-allocated and handle DHCP requests automatically from other devices by using unallocated numbers.
I’ve read all the previous on this thread and am having much the same problems with viewing recorded files via media player on my Win10 laptop, up until a couple of weeks ago there were no problems, now all I see are a long list of 0kb channel names. The Android app on my tablet which was working very well won’t do anything despite several uninstall/install episodes. If all this has been caused by a software upgrade why is it not tested properly before issue, and more to the point how do they manage to call it a software update if all it does is cause problems for the consumer.
REPASAC – thanks for your advice. Sorry for my late response but the Belkin router is at my Sister’s house. I have the same Humax at home but my router is a Netgear D6200, this led to my confusion as to where I was and wasn’t able to reserve IP addresses. In the Netgear all is fine and that’s where I have been able to reserve an address for my Humax.
The Belkin router is where my Sister’s Humax is.
It’s an old Belkin N (F5D8633-4). It has no option at all (even in advanced settings) to reserve IP addresses in or out of the range of available IP addresses for the DHCP to allocate. The only thing that can be changed is the start and end of the range of available addresses for it to allocate.
The Belkin does allow MAC address control and or MAC address filtering. I can enter the MAC address of the Humax, but if I do that, for either filtering or access control, I then have to list all the MAC addresses of every other device I want to allow access through the router. (Very archaic and restrictive.)
The IP lease time is set to infinite.
I have definitely discovered in the past this Belkin does not like devices without a Host name and blocks access to those devices if more than one device without a Host name attempts to connect (even the original single device which it allowed originally, once a second attempts to connect).
Roy
Just to add, I mention the problem about the Belkin and blank Host names because the Humax has no Host name (it’s blank) and there is no option to set one.
royw – 1 hour ago » …because the Humax has no Host name (it’s blank) and there is no option to set one.
I don’t have a 4000 but in this thread…
https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/transferring-files-to-pc-using-samba
…post #6, it mentions setting the server name on the 4000.
Pollensa1946 – thanks for your comment. Yes the 4000 has the same settings, but the one you mention is for the network server name, which is for accessing shared files and recordings etc. That isn’t the same as a Host name name which the router uses in relation to devices connected via the DHCP.
If you log into your router and look at what is connected to the DHCP, you will notice Host names against other connections listed. I’m not sure if your Humax will show with a Host name but with the 4000 it’s blank.
I understand the distinction with regard to names, I wondered if one setting may have covered both. You have essentially the same problem as I described here…
https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/using-freesatfreetime-app-as-a-rc-only
Humax networking is at best rudimentary…
“relating to an immature, undeveloped, or basic form, primitive, crude, simple, unsophisticated, rough, rough and ready, makeshift”
Pollensa1946 – I checked your link and understand what you’re saying there.
Fortunately when I change the name in the Network Server menu, the 4000T server name does change there and then shows that new name in the My Humax recording schedule in a browser or the Android TV Guide app.
But it doesn’t insert a network Host Name for the router DHCP table, that remains blank.
Manual control of the Wi-Fi settings would be very useful, offering better stability.
Pollensa1946 – I agree it would confuse the issue when trying to use the remote control app though, because the server name isn’t visible there either.
I think there is a reason for that, the host name is important, and only one with the same name can exist on an network.
Unless Humax program an option in to set it, (as the custom firmware for the Foxsat-Hdr does) only one such device could exist on a network.
Think that is the reason.
REPASSAC – precisely my point.
Hence my complaint about the Humax having a blank Host name and not being able to set a Host name either, in my posting above.
The Belkin N router (and some other routers) does (do) not like devices without a Host name. The Belkin N blocks access to those devices if more than one device without a Host name attempts to connect (even the original single device which it allowed originally, once a second attempts to connect).
Roy
Since the upgrade to 1.01.31 I have the same problem the “Recordings” folder no longer shows on Windows 10, I have downgraded to 1.01.25 and now I can see the recordings folder again. The way I use the 4000 I have had no major problems with 1.01.25, how can I disable updates and stay on 1.01.25, I would prefer not to be part of the Humax beta test team as I don’t have time to fix it after every update.
I did a factory reset today and that has cured my DLNA problem to see the recordings folder but other problems still exist e.g. can’t run the new feature to access box when in standby, can’t integrate box with Live TV app.
Advocas/giverny. Am not overly familiar with the workings of the 4000t, how do I downgrade the update to 1.01.25. There is a lot of to and froing re routers etc. but this does not answer the question raised by Advocas post, you should not have to have these problems if the software is properly tested.
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