I realise that everyone is too busy playing with the apps to watch any TV channels, but does anyone else have a problem with Channel 5 HD. The sound is coming and going and the picture freezing or going blank (black screen). The signal is 100% for strength and quality. I have tried on two TVs (Sony and Samsung) and two HDMI cables.

No, me neither. Volume control is a real issue – I have a Samsung Soundbar on my LG TV with optical connection. I have to set the soundbar volume quite high to hear anything via the Humax – if I switch to the TV to watch Netflix, neighbours 3 doors away would be able to hear it as the volume suddenly goes high. Volume control on the Humax does NOT feed through.

Doesn’t matter if I use optical from the Humax or HDMI-CEC, same issue occurs. I also have had to turn off “sound surround” and switch to “stereo” on the Humax in order to get anything like a listenable volume from the box.

slug123uk – 19 mins ago  » 

mhargreaves – 13 hours ago  » 

Does the aura work with an IR remote?

Yes

bar Google Assistant and voice search.

Does this box have a dlna server or can one be installed to allow viewing of recordings on a tv in a different room?

Have any of these problems been reported to Humax? Based on what I’ve been reading here, it seems like this box is one to avoid for now — typical early adopter pain.

CORRECTION : I had been using Zenmate to test an IPTV app and had left the VPN running. I googled the error code and found it was connected to the VPN being in use and BBC blocking. I turned off the VPN and iPlayer is now working as it should.

I also cancelled SKY this morning . . . no hard sell and as soon as I said I had a Freeview recorder, he just processed the cancellation.

So my biggest gripes are ..

– Volume, as reported by someone else, too low through my Marantz. All other gadgets connected to the amp are fine

– HDR output. It simply refuses to output HDR when I have no problems with other gear. No auto switching

– Auto frame rate and resolution under Plex doesn’t work

– Kodi only reports 1080p, no higher resolutions

– Upscaling quality isn’t great. Wish they had implemented auto resolution switching (1080 for terrestrial content, 4K50/60 for 4K content).

So I’d recommend as a straight replacement for the older FVP-5000 box but it isn’t a suitable replacement for media players like firetv sticks, Nvidia shield, etc.

Fingers crossed that Humax software engineers read this forum!

Jthspace – 3 hours ago  » 

gap – 1 hour ago  » 

Hi all!

Got my Humax Aura yesterday and set up – overall please and seems to be working well!

One thing I am struggling with is the volume control to my TV – I have a Samsung TV with an attached soundbar via ARC, and enabled HDMI-CEC on the TV and the Humax, but when I mute or do V+/- on the Humax remote, it is just altering the volume of the Humax box. In the manual it says it can change volume via HDMI-CEC, so is anyone having any luck with that?

Thanks!

gap

Got playing with this some more. Although the Humax box is NOT controlling the volume on my Soundbar, I have discovered from playing with the TV that if I set the “HDMI ARC” “Digital Sound Out” to PCM instead of Auto, the volume from the Humax playing through the TV/Soundbar is no longer muffled and low volume.

Now I can switch between the TV and Humax with no sudden rise (or fall) of volume

Getting there . . .

Yeah, but using PCM you won’t get 5.1 audio from anything. Not an issue if you don’t need it, but if you do, a PITA.