Aura Android 14 update now

[Andrew!]

I know what you mean. But - credit where it's due - I haven't had a random reboot on coming out of standby since the update, and it's certainly quicker at switching between the Freeview side and the Apps side.

I have just found a setting I had not seen before:
Device Preferences
Home Screen
Optimize Home and Apps Tabs

I wondered what it did and turned it off.
The horrible Advert band seems to have gone just leaving the other cluttering bands that surrounded it.
Also
There seems to be a delay on the main Aura startup and a small delay on freeview TV startup , possibly a data clear up before launching.
The Live TV despite the delay has been much better once launched.

 

[EEPhil]

Don't like the blanking and/or pixellation on channel change.

This also causes interference on any recordings. Also means if a second recording starts up it interferes with the first. Looks like my Aura is about to become an expensive door stop. It's not fit for purpose.

 

[davey64]

This also causes interference on any recordings. Also means if a second recording starts up it interferes with the first. Looks like my Aura is about to become an expensive door stop. It's not fit for purpose.

Have a look in Freeview Button> Settings> Audio & Video> AVI Info Frame> Off see if that makes a difference to changing channels.
Toggle it On or Off see if it makes any difference.

 

[EEPhil]

Have a look in Freeview Button> Settings> Audio & Video> AVI Info Frame> Off see if that makes a difference to changing channels.
Toggle it On or Off see if it makes any difference.

Already tried that. No difference to pixellation. May have marginally changed the blanking.

 

[Andrew!]

I haven't heard about many interface changes, but wanted to check before I update (if it's ever offered to me). On the Freeview Play home screen, is the Continue Watching section still there? I never use anything else on that screen, but Continue Watching saves me having to remember what I'm in the middle of.

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[Andrew!]

Continue Watching section:

Yes it is and I tested to see if it had my partly watched TV recordings showing.

I am using a Logitech Harmony remote and for years had not visited the free view page and always used the Home one instead.
Not knowing the reboot option and the other features only lived on that page.
I guess its obvious to see if you use the original remote.

 

[larkim]

It was always a weird implementation having two places to potentially go to to access some (but not all) settings or power features.

If crashing under iPlayer use stops, then I will consider this update to be a major win and could see me retaining the Aura for another 5 years at this rate. I still can't see anything good on the market to replace the Aura if my basic requirement is live aerial driven broadcast and recording with live-pause etc and a decent sized HDD. And the Android base for me is great as using NordVPN directly on the Aura means I can watch Belgian TV FTA broadcast of the F1!!

 

[Andrew!]

It was always a weird implementation having two places to potentially go to to access some (but not all) settings or power features.

If crashing under iPlayer use stops, then I will consider this update to be a major win and could see me retaining the Aura for another 5 years at this rate. I still can't see anything good on the market to replace the Aura if my basic requirement is live aerial driven broadcast and recording with live-pause etc and a decent sized HDD. And the Android base for me is great as using NordVPN directly on the Aura means I can watch Belgian TV FTA broadcast of the F1!!

So Far BBC Iplayer is working normally , last night I was demoing the UHD side of it to my brother and looking at some older content and no issues, but to be honest it generally worked ok before Android 14.
Its baffling how different peoples machines act so differently across the country.

 

[larkim]

Agreed. iPlayer for me would crash the machine into a hard reboot about 10% of the time (invariably when my better half had selected the programme) but I could still live with it. I was on the old forum and the different behaviours of different boxes around the country was baffling, especially for users like me who had a "stock" Aura without any additional complicated use of ftp or media serving etc. I don't even have a UHD TV so presumably the basic workload for the machine was lower than it would be streaming UHD content.

We've rarely had issues with scheduled recordings fail (maybe 1 in 100) and whilst the guide was often relatively slow, especially going backwards a few hours, it still was a "good" box. Not quite as good as the old EE TV box we had (my favourite ever) and the Thomson DHD4000 that we had in the very earliest days of HDD Freeview recording boxes still holds a fond spot in my heart for some of its features. But 5 years on I am still broadly happy with the Aura. Just a shame the development on it stopped so rapidly, despite promises at the time to the contrary.

 

[Andrew!]

Agreed. iPlayer for me would crash the machine into a hard reboot about 10% of the time (invariably when my better half had selected the programme) but I could still live with it. I was on the old forum and the different behaviours of different boxes around the country was baffling, especially for users like me who had a "stock" Aura without any additional complicated use of ftp or media serving etc. I don't even have a UHD TV so presumably the basic workload for the machine was lower than it would be streaming UHD content.

We've rarely had issues with scheduled recordings fail (maybe 1 in 100) and whilst the guide was often relatively slow, especially going backwards a few hours, it still was a "good" box. Not quite as good as the old EE TV box we had (my favourite ever) and the Thomson DHD4000 that we had in the very earliest days of HDD Freeview recording boxes still holds a fond spot in my heart for some of its features. But 5 years on I am still broadly happy with the Aura. Just a shame the development on it stopped so rapidly, despite promises at the time to the contrary.

The video Codec support for video files surpasses my Panasaonic OLED TV and dp-ub9000 Blu-ray player which cost an arm and a leg (they both have USB file storage for play back too).
Fast forward rewind on the Aura is instant with a slider on very large 4K films stored in .MKV format .
With the bugs fixed it pretty much does all my needs and recording issues are relatively low too.
Hopefully the new trial update promised at the end of the week for members will cure some of the problems and not add new ones.

 

[Roksan Caspian]

I don't know if this has been mentioned before but the Aura does not seem to be shutting down.
I had no recordings taking place for at least a couple of hours and I thought I heard the Aura (the sound it makes when on, the hard drive spinning).
It was on, so I'm wondering after a recording if it is shutting down afterwards?
I've not done a Freeview (is it called?) reboot yet.
Is there anything else I should be doing to clear out any crap left behind since the update without losing any recordings/settings etc.?