Western digital media player firmware updates

If you are using a laptop, please make sure the battery is sufficiently charged During the firmware update, DO NOT disconnect or disrupt the power to the drive. An internet connection is required to install the firmware update. Instructions: Disconnect all other external drives from the computer except for one My Book or My Passport. Download WDFirmwareUpdater. Extract the file using an extraction utility. Right, a couple of factory resets later and first attaching a usb stick and than the hdd and the usb disk is being detected again.

And this was the main reason I bought the device - and TV stick. The device will restart. Had to flash back to 1. Will post another issue report on this. Very annoying as need the iplayer update and several other minor fixes. I received that same error today playing a file from a NAS. After the device rebooted, everything seems fine now… Will keep an eye on this. Netflix died! Only wd tv died.

If you select to go ahead, the device will reboot once and install the new firmware. It should take around 2 — 5 minutes. Those who have the original firmware version 1. You will need to cheat the media player, so that it thinks there is a new firmware available and only then will it install WDLXTV.

In the pen drive, you will find a few files. Now you can update the firmware of the WDTV without any issues as the media player will sense a new version for the firmware and install it. The pen drive will now be used for downloading add-ons in the next phase.

Installing Add-ons and plug-ins Once you are done installing the new firmware on the WDTV media player, you can start using it as usual. But if you want more features, such as additional internet video and radio channels, file and torrent downloading options, services and such, you need to configure the WDLXTV to do so. This involves downloading add-ons and plug-ins and configuring them accordingly.

This process is fairly simple and needs an active Internet connection. Connect your WDTV media player to the network, which has an active Internet connection enabled, and it should be on the same network connected to your PC. You can change this password once you enter the configuration page.

Your configuration webpage will have icons on the top layer and device details on the bottom and left layer. The actual developer of the free software is Western Digital Technologies, Inc. Since Western Digital has been making semiconductors. By the time the came around the company had shifted to storage.