I have now had my Aura for 6 weeks and well it kinda works, when it wants to.
The amount of times I have to disconnect the unit from the power supply is getting more frequent.
If starting from Stand By the blue light turns on and then after a few seconds the unit decides to wake up, no picture, no sound then it will switch off, and then turn on again, no picture, no sound.
I put it in Stand By again and then turn on, this sometimes is successful, but not always.
Often I find I need to disconnect the power supply and after 2 minutes reconnect the unit, after about 5 minutes it will startup and show a picture and sound.
Also when switching between channels it often just gives a blank screen with no sound and you have to try other channels and then it might come back, other times I need to restart.
I also do not understand why the signal strength level it reports is about 10-20% less than my 5000T and my TV which are both daisy chained to the Aura.
The Aura has the aerial plugged directly to it, then the signal is looped to the 5000T and then looped to the TV from the 5000T.
Both the 5000T and TV report between 75% to 90% across different muxes, whereas the Aura reports about 58% to 80%, which can result in drop outs and pixellation.
I did write to Humax Support about that one and quite frankly their response was laughable.
I am really hoping that the new version of the software due next week will help out with the channel switching and startup problem.
I also hope the fast forward and rewind action is less hit or miss and more like the action on the 5000T, often with the Aura you miss the section you want to be at.
My Aura is not often connected to the internet so I get the annoying OK dialogue when I press the Guide button, anyone know if that has been removed.
Another irritation is that I cannot copy files from my mac to the Aura. It will connect to the mac and I can see the folder structure on the Aura, but all folders are set as Read Only.
With the 5000T you could drop files into the Downloads folder and then play them using the built in Media player, so if anyone knows how to transfer files to the Aura from a
mac/ PC, I would then consider downloading VLC or similar so I can watch my collection of third rate movies.
Any help would be appreciated.
