I've only had my Aura for a couple of weeks, but it has so far disconnected from WiFi on at least 2 occasions while on Standby. This obviously makes any remote operation impossible, such as scheduling new recordings or viewing/downloading existing ones.

My Aura is in the same room as the router, 4 meters apart with line of site. It is a modern WiFi 6 router and I have no problem with connections to any other devices.

The Aura reconnects to Wifi when I take it out of standby, and resumes normal service.

Is this a known or common issue? Any workarounds? I could potentially buy a new powerline adapter and connect via ethernet cable - but why should I?

Eero router is about 4m away from box, separated by a 50mm blockwork wall, all worked fine until about 4 weeks ago. Eero app says it is connected on wifi, and tv freeview says wifill signal is excellent
Eero router only has one ethernet socket and this is taken with phone connection
Connected box with ethernet cable from a tplink extender, as so far so good

I connected mine with an ethernet cable as I found the wifi quite poor and the router is only about 10m from the box with one internal wall.
Is this a new problem? Any new equipment such as router?

My humax aura box is dropping wifi connection every 30mins or so, done an app reboot, done a restart, checked other items connected to router all working fine, eero router tells me box is connected, yet I keep having to unplug box from mains in order to reconnect, this connection last for approximately 30mins
Any help appreciated

That should read 720x576. (I blame failing eyesight, small virtual keyboard on phone and fat fingers!)

There are various settings for transcoding that can be accessed via Settings/Record & Share. I don't know what the default values are, but you can fiddle with the bitrate 1,2,3,4 or 5Mbps) and frame rate 25,30,50 or 60Hz). The resolution you can get is 960x540 or 720x575.

I finally managed to convert a 1-hour HD TV programme and transfer it to the PC and play it via Media Monkey, but the video quality is poor and the conversion took about 20 minutes.

It all seems more trouble than it's worth, but thanks to EEPhil and everyone else who replied.

phslot - 2 hours ago  » 
Will try transcoding. So far even most of the audio files won't play on the computer, perhaps because they somehow got coded as HD video?
It's a long road...

Not very likely, and you can't transcode audio files on the Aura.
For what it's worth - when I want to save radio recordings to a pc and play them I extract the audio from the .TS file using ffmpeg (freely available). The resulting .MP2 files (all BBC radio) are playable in Winamp and any other audio player I've used. Ffmpeg can also convert to MP3 but this could introduce extra losses and artefacts - although I've never noticed them.

Will try transcoding. So far even most of the audio files won't play on the computer, perhaps because they somehow got coded as HD video?

It's a long road...

I don't think you can play the transcoded file on the Aura from the recordings screen, so you end up playing the original (HD). If you use FTP to copy files to your pc then I think you can copy both, but the HD one will be unplayable.