New Release - Firmware Version 3.03.13 for WD TV Live Hub (2/29/12)

[dudeman316]

What's a movie sheet? Is this something included in new f/w?

[wdtvhub]

I wish....read up in the Themes section.

[tommyguns888]

So Iv'e been on 3.00.28 and had no probelms for a month now with this puppy and i love this thing. So I updated it through the hub itself no usb and it hang up a 0%. So I pulled the plug.......woops, and now the hub is alsways with solid lite and stuck on the WD logo screen. Did the rollback thingy with a usb stick and wanted to go back to 3.00.28 and it would stay at 0% and not move. did this several times. Then opened this puppy up and tried to do a "Cold Boot" by plugging drive in PC and changing some things around.....still same WD logo. Finally i put it back together and transfered the rollback info to a ext. seagate drive no stick cause i've read they are sometimes poopy specially on older firmware and plugged it in and BAM!!!!!!!! updated (rolled back) to 3.00.28 and back in business. i almost sent this thing back with all my stuff........thats why i opened it carefully So Im scared to even update to 3.01.19 again...i dont think its worth it. Has anyone got a solid prosedure of doing a firmware update? thxs

[wdtvhub]

Patience helps.

I have updated last few from the the box itself no problems.

Before that it was any stick I could find. :-)

[tommyguns888]

Patience definitely works. First try took 15 hours and stuck at 0% second try 8 hrs stuck at 0% and so on. So usually this puppy will update in 10-20 Min. So obviously the hub didn't like the update through the UI or rolling back on new formatted USB stick. But it like the rollback on my ext. Seagate drive....... Weird. After all that, I like my 3.00.28  

[sudheer]

I tried to update firmware last night thru wireless connection and it went down after 10 minutes with 26% progress saying the network connection is not reliable then i restarted my device and again I tried to upgrade using wireless connection and it took 1 hours and still remains at 5% and went down with the same message.

Then I use my USB stick to upgrade, took 10 minutes and boom... it went fine. So my advice is to use USB to upgrade.

[flhthemi]

This is not offical procedure but it has worked perfect for me for about 5 FW updates....

1. Download the FW from WD

2. Place the files on a freshly formatted USB stick (quick format has worked fine FAT32)

3. Reset the Hub with the reset hole on the bottom of the Hub

4. Run the update after setting date and time on the hub

5. After update is complete do another reset as you did before

6. Set it up and have fun...

No problems here other than WDs inherent ones. 

[tommyguns888]

So I finally tried it again. I couldn't stand being without the new stuff. So I put the new update on my ext. seagate drive, right on the root. I powered down hub by holding power button until the light was off. Then I powered it up and waited unttl flashing light was done. I selected update firmware and it did its thing and BAM! 20 min later i was back in. But for the heck of it, I then did a factory reset and cleared the media library and set it all back up. which is only 10min. But I've noticed something...why does it now in the UI video tab say i have 1,050 videos when only theres 215? I've  cleared media library and let it compile and still the same thing.

[chip_r]

Ignore the video tab. How it counts up the files is a mystery. It would actually be better if this count could be disabled.

If you see your files and you can play them, then all is good.

[Californication]

Hello

I have my media files (mostly mkv) on my WD My Book Essential external USB drive and while playing a media file the playback suddenly stops/freezes. It happens very randomly 3 or 4 times during a normal movie. My possibilites are to press "Stop" on the remote and resume the movie, or wait until movie restarts playing. When the movie stops playing the HD indicator on the "My Book" stops flashing. It seems to be a FW problem, because with latest happens more frequently.

Only happens with external HDD, never with internal.

Anyone with same problem?