I have a WD TV Live Plus, still running 1.04 something - it’s running fine for my purposes and I always come here to read about new firmware versions before I would ever update to them. Based on this forum I don’t plan to ever update the firmware until maybe this “last” magical version that “BILL” keeps promising is in the works.
Anyway - every time I power up the player I have to wait for the “new firmare” message to appear (5 or 10 seconds) before I can navigate to anything else. If I start to immediately navigate somewhere, it just bops me right back to the message - then I start all over again going where I wanted to go. Not a huge issue, but a PITA nonetheless. So I was wondering if there’s a setting somewhere that enables me to disable that message from popping up every time I power on the player?
If you put dummy numbers in the default gateway settings, that will prevent access to the internet, and thus you stop getting those annoying messages. Unfortunately you also lose internet access with that method.
not sure if this helps but in the options there is an option to not check for firmware i have the wd tv live hub i am not sure how your options differ.
If you put dummy numbers in the default gateway settings, that will prevent access to the internet, and thus you stop getting those annoying messages. Unfortunately you also lose internet access with that method.
Hmmm…would that prevent me from navigating to resources on my local net (like my NAS)? If not, that may be a solution to try. With my luck it’ll probably pop up a different error every time I power on instead like “unable to access internet to perform firmware check”…so I won’t be any further ahead…but worth a shot if I get ambitious enough to try it.
I was hoping it would just be a simple setting I could toggle that I somehow missed.
Thanks so much. I’ve just done this on my router and hope to test it later on my WD box.
Like many others on these forums, I’ve rolled back too many times to ever just accept new firmware without a thorough investigation first. Consequently, that prompt only serves as an annoyance. With your help, I hope that’s the last I see of it!
