Play from USB source without connecting to internet?

WD Legacy Products WD TV Media Player
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New to WDTV, bought it because of its glowing reputation for handling many filetypes

I’m not interested at all in streaming anything, just want to play media from a My Passport drive connected to a WDTV by USB. 

So, do I need to connect the WDTV to the internet at all? Is a connection or the need to find one an integral part of the functionability? If not, can the search step be skipped or “declined” ?

Maybe it is needed for the initial setup to check for any update, but after that?

Thanks

Mark

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Hello,

You don’t need to connect your WDTV to the Internet in order to play files from a USB drive.

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Thanks for this, Hamlet.

That’s good.

I understand that part of the setup/wakeup process/routine is a request to be pointed to a network connection whether via ethernet or detected wirelessly  …  if that isn’t required in order to continue it’s functions, can you tell me how to respond/input/whatever when that step appears wanting a response? 

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Answered on this thread:  http://community.wd.com/t5/WD-TV-Media-Player/File-naming-for-scraping/td-p/871200