woodbar,

Many thanks!

bogbody – 1 hour ago  » 

Well…..

We bought the Aura as a TV program recorder to replace an aging Youview box.

For its intended purpose – recording and then playing back the recorded programs it works perfectly.

My wife has no complaints and boy oh boy I would never hear the end of it if it was not perfect!!

Catch up works fine, no complaints.

So as a recorder/recording player it just works.

You might be the lucky one. Many of us have problems with Recorded TV and Live TV playback, where the timer doesn’t start, so, when you skip the adverts it starts at the begining of the show. Extremely frustrating when I sometimes have to relaunch the same recording 4 times. It was reported as a bug to Humax in Sept last year, still no fix, despite then saying it was planned to be fixed …

For catch up, Ive never had issues and agree with you.

I guess you got lucky, or maybe you’ve not noticed it, or maybe you enjoy watching the adverts

ZiggyUK – 7 mins ago  » 

jlmj2009 – 3 days ago  » 

bogbody – 1 hour ago  » 

Well…..

We bought the Aura as a TV program recorder to replace an aging Youview box.

For its intended purpose – recording and then playing back the recorded programs it works perfectly.

My wife has no complaints and boy oh boy I would never hear the end of it if it was not perfect!!

Catch up works fine, no complaints.

So as a recorder/recording player it just works.

You might be the lucky one. Many of us have problems with Recorded TV and Live TV playback, where the timer doesn’t start, so, when you skip the adverts it starts at the begining of the show. Extremely frustrating when I sometimes have to relaunch the same recording 4 times. It was reported as a bug to Humax in Sept last year, still no fix, despite then saying it was planned to be fixed …

For catch up, Ive never had issues and agree with you.

I guess you got lucky, or maybe you’ve not noticed it, or maybe you enjoy watching the adverts

This happens to me, what we do is avoid the fast-forward button and instead use the right arrow next to the “OK” button, this makes it jump forward, it’s not as accurate at getting to the right spot so get a few second of adverts but we have never experienced the restart using this method.

Using the arrow button causes the same random issue Humax really dropped the ball with this one it’s a terrible unit that could be brilliant if they just acknowledged and fixed the list of issues/problems.

I use both jump button and fast forward a lot and have experienced any restart issues. Since my reset a couple of weeks ago I have not had any of the random restarts I was experiencing most evenings.

The thing I would most like updated is the app as it is woefully clunky and no form of customisation. Also accessing downloaded recordings can take about 10 minutes before my iPad will allow access to them!

Trouble is I seem to get loads of problems and its almost as if they have some sort of cyclic recurrence – I have not had the HDCP error for 2 weeks now – but have been getting the skip back to program start quite a lot this last week. Next week it will probably be something different!

Talking of skip button functions – one very good idea my Octagon PVR utilises is the start and end markers that most broadcasters add. When you start to play a recording and the timeline info bar is shown at the bottom of the screen you mostly find there are orange coloured flags showing the start/end position. The RC has 2 extra left and right buttons adjacent to the numeric keys (< / >) and one press of the relevant one will move the play position to these markers and play from that point. It works brilliantly and should the broadcast be delayed you can even check that you have the whole of it my quickly moving to the end marker to check – then another prod to go back to the start. Not rocket science, just a well thought out UI.

MrMiggins – 1 week ago  » 

Such a shame. So close…..yet so far. Can’t believe Humax has given up on the Aura. I won’t trust them again.

I’ve been using humax products for probably over 15 years, some with custom firmwares.

But my 2 aura boxes, one of which I bought specifically for beta testing (haha lol). Has broken the camels back.

That’s the last cash humax will get out of me.

They left us hanging hi and dry.

The beta testing box is now packed up gathering dust, I couldn’t even think of possible selling it either.. pfff.

james_uk – 18 hours ago  » 

Well I sent them another rant the other day questioning why there’s been no update for so long and got the following response.

Quote:

Hi James

There is no updates on new the firmware as of yet, this does take time, also more may need to be added to resolve some other slight issues, go to other reviews on our website etc and other sources, there is great ratings, that model is not that old, some issues are expected, that is why we have a great software team to resolve the problems with the Aura.

Best Regards,

Colin

Humax Customer Support

I’d say that’s a load of s@*t lol

Haha. I left a review on the HumaxDirect website the other week, scathing of the product and its subsequent support. Needless to say, the review never appeared !!

Has anyone got Kodi working on teh Aura and accessing videos on a USB drive? The drive works with Kodi on Windows 10- and I can see and play the files in Kodi on the Aura, but I just can’t get the files to appear in the front-end menu?