iPlayer no longer works on some Humax PVRs

I might bite the bullet and upgrade to the new Humax Aura, which looks quite interesting (rather than getting a smart TV which doesn't stay smart for very long).

We have the HDR Fox T2. Frankly, it?s always been pants as a ?smart? device for streaming content. Currently iPlayer isn?t working and an alert about YouTube giving up the ghost shortly. I amazed that anyone has the patience to use it for streaming.

Tim

We have one too. If all else fails we switch to the 'smart' TV just for this. We need it for All4 anyway.

Is this the removal of Flash though? Brian

But have you tried the iPlayer on your HDR FOX recently ?.

Dunno. Could be.

To be honest, it is so agonisingly slow at navigating to what you want to stream, I have been researching potential replacements for some time.

The Twitter app was removed a few years ago, and Youtube vanished in the last couple of years. Something to do with 'lack of authentication', wherever that means. Some people have installed a 3rd party software package on their HDR FOX T2s, but these have dual tuners and an onboard hard disk. I have the single tuner, diskless version and I don't think the 3rd party software can be installed on it.

The new Humax Aura looks interesting because it claims to stream 'HD' audio from a local server. Hopefully this means it will stream FLAC which the current Humax PVrs cannot do. They only understand (and see) MP3 files on my PC.

Another route (for me) is to get an AV amp that has more funtionality and makes it easier to connect other devices. At the moment I have an HD FOX T2 PVR with its single tuner, an external 2.5 inch 350Gig disk for recording and a 32 inch IPS monitor as a screen device. The monitor only has one HDMI port.

Researching AV amps is a pain. There are too many to choose from.

Andrew

iPlayer was failing recently on our Humax whatsit but it's OK now. So it's been fixed.