Why not go into the UI on your router and disable power saving on wifi – I suspect it will only be saving you pennies per year in any event. Pretty odd thing to do anyhow, I would prefer my devices suspending wifi when not being used rather than the router e.g. my phone does this.

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Faust – 3 minutes ago  » 

Why not go into the UI on your router and disable power saving on wifi – I suspect it will only be saving you pennies per year in any event. Pretty odd thing to do anyhow, I would prefer my devices suspending wifi when not being used rather than the router e.g. my phone does this.

We don’t want to do this as we currently have a teenage guest staying with us who would stay up all night playing online games, when he asked to disable it my wife asked me not to disable it as she was worried about him keeping us awake half the night. All my other devices can cope with this and reconnect in the morning so why can’t the Humax.

A pair of homeplug adaptors may solve the problem.

You can certainly set a fixed IP address on the LAN network as that’s how my FVP-4000T is configured.

It seems strange that you can’t go into wifi manual set up and turn off DHCP and set a manual address. However, you should be able to do it from the wifi router. There’s usually an option for each device on the DHCP allocation table to “Retain this IP address for this device” type of thing.

Richard

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RichardS-UK – 19 hours ago  » 

You can certainly set a fixed IP address on the LAN network as that’s how my FVP-4000T is configured.

It seems strange that you can’t go into wifi manual set up and turn off DHCP and set a manual address. However, you should be able to do it from the wifi router. There’s usually an option for each device on the DHCP allocation table to “Retain this IP address for this device” type of thing.

Richard

I tried a setting a fixed IP address in the router but it made no difference, the network was still disconnected this morning.

I had another look at setting a fixed IP for the Wireless, I went into LAN config and it showed my DHCP assigned address, I changed the setting from DHCP to manual and set the IP to a free IP address that isn’t in my DHCP scope, then selected apply and it just showed connecting for about an hour until I cancelled it. I’m wondering if I could set this with a cable connected then disconnect and see if it would use the static address for wireless.

Is there a way to restart the FVP-4000T from either the remote or the buttons on the box rather than having to pull the power?

I assume that when you went into LAN config that you didn’t actually have a LAN cable plugged in? Obviously that is why it won’t connect.

I just tried to set a fixed wifi IP address on my FVP-4000T and you are right, the wifi is DHCP only which is rather poor coding by Humax. I guess it’s to make wifi “idiot proof” whereas with LAN they seem to assume a higher level of technical knowledge so they give LAN users more configuration options. In my view Humax are making another mistake here as they could just as easily have kept DHCP as the default but still given an “Advanced” wifi option.

A fixed address set using the LAN options is not retained if you then switch to wifi which is not surprising as starting the wifi connection generates a fresh call to the DHCP server.

There appears to be no power off option apart from pulling the mains.

There are some major issues with the current FVP-4000T firmware. Not only does your wifi connection not appear to re-connect when you turn the Humax on but neither will the SMB server nor the FTP server turn on and both have to be re-started manually every time the Humax is re-started.

Richard

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RichardS-UK – 19 hours ago  » 

You can certainly set a fixed IP address on the LAN network as that’s how my FVP-4000T is configured.

It seems strange that you can’t go into wifi manual set up and turn off DHCP and set a manual address. However, you should be able to do it from the wifi router. There’s usually an option for each device on the DHCP allocation table to “Retain this IP address for this device” type of thing.

Richard

I tried a setting a fixed IP address in the router but it made no difference, the network was still disconnected this morning.

I had another look at setting a fixed IP for the Wireless, I went into LAN config and it showed my DHCP assigned address, I changed the setting from DHCP to manual and set the IP to a free IP address that isn’t in my DHCP scope, then selected apply and it just showed connecting for about an hour until I cancelled it. I’m wondering if I could set this with a cable connected then disconnect and see if it would use the static address for wireless.

Is there a way to restart the FVP-4000T from either the remote or the buttons on the box rather than having to pull the power?

I assume that when you went into LAN config that you didn’t actually have a LAN cable plugged in? Obviously that is why it won’t connect.

I just tried to set a fixed wifi IP address on my FVP-4000T and you are right, the wifi is DHCP only which is rather poor coding by Humax. I guess it’s to make wifi “idiot proof” whereas with LAN they seem to assume a higher level of technical knowledge so they give LAN users more configuration options. In my view Humax are making another mistake here as they could just as easily have kept DHCP as the default but still given an “Advanced” wifi option.

A fixed address set using the LAN options is not retained if you then switch to wifi which is not surprising as starting the wifi connection generates a fresh call to the DHCP server.

There appears to be no power off option apart from pulling the mains.

There are some major issues with the current FVP-4000T firmware. Not only does your wifi connection not appear to re-connect when you turn the Humax on but neither will the SMB server nor the FTP server turn on and both have to be re-started manually every time the Humax is re-started.

Richard

Because I saw the Wifi IP address under LAN I presumed LAN was for both Wifi and Ethernet and not just for Ethernet as I would expect Wifi to be referred to as a LAN.

How do I restart the Samba server is it just a power cycle or is there a way to do it from the settings? (I gave up on Samba back in December when I found the SD recordings were still encrypted after copying but I will give it another go with Windows 10)

Just go into Setting and select No to Samba server and then Yes and it will re-start. The “My Contents” folder should then be network discovered in Win 10 “Computer” and you can open the “Recordings” folder.

You can play the SD recordings directly from the folder but it seems to copy them locally anyway first as part of the decryption process. WMP might need you to change the file suffix to .mpg depending upon which codecs you have installed. VLC will play them without a hitch.

Richard

Hi, Just want to say I bought this PVR a couple of weeks ago and I am having exactly the same problem. A power cycle usually fixes but not always for me, In configure WLAN settings quite often it cannot see the WIFI without several tries and then it does with two signal bars usually, but from there you cannot connect without putting the password in again. As for trying to connect in the network status part this has only worked once for me when I had three bars of signal. I am wondering if the WIFI in the PVR is just a bit cheap and nasty. Would a WIFI booster put near the box work? My box is only about 6m and two walls from the router but struggles where everything else in the house has no problem.