DLNA Functionality
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As far as I know the Aura has always had DLNA. There is also an app (Android and IOS versions) which allows watching programs on a phone and casting to a TV. The Aura does have various issues but it is the box I use in preference to an FVP-5000T and HDR-FOX T2.
Black Hole
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Reference please
New version of Aura software released 12th April
Humax have been conducting a fairly open beta test of new software for the Aura fixing a number of known issues and also adding some new features requested by users. I have been impressed that there have been weekly releases of new beta versions over several weeks. According to Barry over at...
The issues that bother me happen relatively infrequently but include: attempts to skip forward result in the program dropping back to a much earlier point, screen going completely blank (sometimes changing channels or starting and stopping a recording brings picture back but sometimes only powering the box off and back on will restore picture), very occasionally starts up to the home screen rather than live TV which doesn't matter much when watching but it is I suspect a cause of failed recordings. I am sure other users will have their own niggles.
If you do please come back here and tell us about your experiences. The other possibility is the soon to be launched Manhattan T4R which has a similar spec to the Aura.
I have had the same skip forward issues but I soon realised it only happened when I repeatedly hit skip too quickly, allowing a second between hits has cured the problem for me, resuming play from the program list always worked and put me back to the point where I started to skip, I have never had to power down. I have very rarely had the aura start up on the home screen and assumed it might be because of an app updating or a blip in my power supply, apart from a few series records vanishing and having to be rescheduled I have had nothing else to complain about yet and that may be down to the broadcasters rather than my Aura.
Black Hole
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So what you're saying is that between November 2020 (when the Aura was released) until 12th April 2021 there was no DLNA server, and two years on you're worried about that?New version of Aura software released 12th April
Humax have been conducting a fairly open beta test of new software for the Aura fixing a number of known issues and also adding some new features requested by users. I have been impressed that there have been weekly releases of new beta versions over several weeks. According to Barry over at...hummy.tv
Clearly not, by your own evidence.
I am just trying ascertain that the Aura does indeed have a dlna server and I was also hoping to get some feedback from someone who has actually used/uses dlna.
I didn't buy an Aura until after that software release and I had forgotten. Does it matter?
Black Hole
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Pity you didn't say that in the first place.
It seems odd that Humax should only add a DLNA server as an apparent afterthought, IIRC it was included in the HDR-FOX as a major selling point. Perhaps there were unresolved technical issues at launch.
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Ian Manning
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I've just bought an Aura and can confirm that it has a DLNA server. I've tried watching recordings using VLC on a Windows PC on the same network and it seems to work fine.
Damn the finder of a thousand pitfalls. It was quite clear what the OP was after.
