topic Re: Recording on external HDD in Android TV

Recording on external HDD

hemant_verma2000 — Sun, 17 Dec 2017 14:31:49 GMT

I've recently bought Sony Bravia KD-49XE8396 Android tv that's connected to SKY dish via SKY+HD box. But I've cancelled my sky subscription, so this box is now used as a freeview device. I've also registered a 1TB external HDD as a recording device. However, when I try to record any program, it tries to record it on Sky+HD box which is not allowed as I'm not a sky customer anymore.

Is there anything I could do to force recordings on HDD?

Thanks

Re: Recording on external HDD

LightFoot — Sun, 17 Dec 2017 15:36:42 GMT

@hemant_verma2000 wrote:
Hi

I've recently bought Sony Bravia KD-49XE8396 Android tv that's connected to SKY dish via SKY+HD box. But I've cancelled my sky subscription, so this box is now used as a freeview device. I've also registered a 1TB external HDD as a recording device. However, when I try to record any program, it tries to record it on Sky+HD box which is not allowed as I'm not a sky customer anymore.

Is there anything I could do to force recordings on HDD?

Thanks

Hi @hemant_verma2000. It sounds like you are looking at the Sky+HD TV Guide. This clearly will not work as you do not have a Sky recording subscription. You need to set your recording from the TV Guide on the TV (Youview or Sony native) to record on the registered external HDD.

Re: Recording on external HDD

dave11674 — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 10:18:58 GMT

Sorry to hijack

but once a hard drive is setup and registered to record on the android tvs

may i ask firstly does it format the hdd to a sony specific ?

or does it leave current file system in tact

i ask as i have a 2tb ntfs hdd

and on it i have movies

thanks

Re: Recording on external HDD

LightFoot — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:14:58 GMT

@dave11674 wrote:
Sorry to hijack

but once a hard drive is setup and registered to record on the android tvs

may i ask firstly does it format the hdd to a sony specific ?
or does it leave current file system in tact
i ask as i have a 2tb ntfs hdd
and on it i have movies

thanks

Hi @dave11674. It formats the HDD so you will lose everything recorded on it. It does warn you ...