Is there an option to change the “i” button to just display information?

Why would you want to do that? At the moment it displays the buttons described previously, the first few lines of the description and a summary of the cast. A button to show the full description is highlighted.

Because if the OK button is set to present the record etc options, its pointless having the i button replicating them, it would be far more useful to display the full information (with just one press) for the programme instead of just the first few lines.

As a new user, (3 days old,) may I just say here, that i’m fully supportive of SSThing’s stance on the absurdity of the Aura system of how to achieve various actions. Needing to press “i” to record a future programme, just because it’s on the iPlayer is utterly ridiculous! I have spent 2 whole afternoons attempting to set the Aura up to switch off my TV when I switch off the Aura, with no success at all. (I have a Samsung TV with CEC activated.) The online manual is an absolute joke! The instructions are basic, not sufficiently indepth for people of a certain age, (I am approaching 79 and consider myself, relatively au fait with technology, but the Aura appears to be designed to confuse!) The instructions in the manual are excellent at telling you WHAT you can do with the box, but don’t actually tell you HOW to do it! My impression of it so far is that it is an excellent machine for couch potatoes, who just want to switch on and trawl through the on-screen offerings. Having said all of this – I logged on to find out how to record a future programme when it was already on the iPlayer, and found the answer with the very first post – it’s just that I should not have needed to check in the first place!@. Here endeth tonight’s rant, (well, for the moment anyway!)

You wouldn’t by any chance be referring to perhaps having something as simplistically important as a “Settings” button on the remote, would you “SS?” (!!!)

Hi Mars, Thanks for your comment, but I think you may have mis-read the specific reason for my gripe. I agree, pressing “record” is fine – if you’re actually sitting watching the TV at the time. My point (and that of ‘SSThing,’) was that you cannot use the “Guide” to set a programme to record at a FUTURE date if that programme is already on the iPlayer – you have to find it in the “Guide,” then press “i” to be able to set the recording. The only other way I’ve found – which I had set up initially, was to set the date and time of the programme in “Scheduled,” which I considered to be even too stupid for Humax to have come up with as the correct option, which is why I’d asked the question. As I say, I found the answer I wanted with the first post, but the amount of subsequent posts regarding the subject – and so many others – are regarding the intricacies required to become a fully qualified pilot to fly the Humax Aura, compared with the simplicity of so many previous Humax boxes. (I only upgraded from a Humax Fox T2, because that didn’t have CEC, to allow me to operate both the Humax and the TV from one remote.) So, £250 – and it’s still not doing that properly!) Is it me I ask myself and get the answer “probably,” though having read the amount of posts regarding various other things that people find difficult about “piloting” the Humax Aura, I find that “We are not alone in the universe!”

ayjay – 15 mins ago  » 

Hi Mars, Thanks for your comment, but I think you may have mis-read the specific reason for my gripe. I agree, pressing “record” is fine – if you’re actually sitting watching the TV at the time. My point (and that of ‘SSThing,’) was that you cannot use the “Guide” to set a programme to record at a FUTURE date if that programme is already on the iPlayer – you have to find it in the “Guide,” then press “i” to be able to set the recording. The only other way I’ve found – which I had set up initially, was to set the date and time of the programme in “Scheduled,” which I considered to be even too stupid for Humax to have come up with as the correct option, which is why I’d asked the question. As I say, I found the answer I wanted with the first post, but the amount of subsequent posts regarding the subject – and so many others – are regarding the intricacies required to become a fully qualified pilot to fly the Humax Aura, compared with the simplicity of so many previous Humax boxes. (I only upgraded from a Humax Fox T2, because that didn’t have CEC, to allow me to operate both the Humax and the TV from one remote.) So, £250 – and it’s still not doing that properly!) Is it me I ask myself and get the answer “probably,” though having read the amount of posts regarding various other things that people find difficult about “piloting” the Humax Aura, I find that “We are not alone in the universe!”

Have you actually tried pressing record while viewing the Guide? It works perfectly with my Aura.

Martin Liddle – 1 mnth ago  » 

SSThing – 1 hour ago  » 

And out of interest, what do you consider to be the “most obvious of the bugs” that Humax need to remedy?

The other one is a problem with the skip forward function. What I saw whilst watching a time shifted recording was that when skipping forward and getting near to real time, it would suddenly jump back to a point near the start of the show (it did this several times).

How curious. There was a long time exact same bug in the Youview software but only while chase-playing an active internet channel recording after an hour or more of watching. Thankfully fixed but wondering if the hour thing is significant.

IanCinUK – 3 hours ago  » 

Why does my Humax switch off when watching ?

Why have you asked your entirely different question on a 3 year old thread.

Start a new fresh question, and this time try describing exactly and under what circumstances

your Aura is switching off