Possible to disable "new firmware available" message?

[fhall1]

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?

[rewind]

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.

[djweevil]

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.

[Techflaws]

It's not on the LIVE (Plus).

[fhall1]

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rewind wrote:

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.

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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.

[Cocovanna]

It works and is easy. Try it.

[willoug]

I have been able to stop the new firmware message by getting into my router and  setting up an access control

for my wdtv live blocking  support.wdc.com  ip address 129.253.55.56 and blocking the port 80 I can still access

the internet features & it just blocks the site it goes to  search for new firmware. found this on a forum here last year

it work a treat. Try google for instructions with your router

[fhall1]

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willoug wrote:

I have been able to stop the new firmware message by getting into my router and  setting up an access control

for my wdtv live blocking  support.wdc.com  ip address 129.253.55.56 and blocking the port 80 I can still access

the internet features & it just blocks the site it goes to  search for new firmware. found this on a forum here last year

it work a treat. Try google for instructions with your router

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Hmmm.....sounds like a good solution!  Hopefully I get some time over the weekend to research and try it

[melvynadam]

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!

[wd_ou]

Yes, have blocked my TV Live  (MAC address) access to support.wdc.com done it for me as well.