The Aura isn't up to Humax's normal high standards. I have loved Humax's FreeSat and then the previous via-ariel Freeview versions of this set-top box for the last 14 years and upgraded last year. This has been nothing but buggy and irritating.
The ultimate test of any piece of tech kit is would you buy it again or recommend it to someone you care for? Nope. Even the way the remote control is layed out is rushed and not intuitive. The button to find your recordings is hidden away and too small. I'm constantly miskeying and once you press the wrong button you lose what you were trying to do and clear the cached program you were trying to watch.
When rewinding, unlike previous versions, you could see the clock time making it easy, say to find the BBC's One O'Clock News, they've changed to cached total time and it's now a pain in the Botticelli. Everything about it is clunky and awkward. It lacks the ability to control it with your voice assistant, and for the first time in 14 years, I regret buying a Humax bit of kit.
There are so many rushed decisions that don't work (but did perfectly on previous incarnations) or are clunky. When watching cached programmes, it intermittently blacks-out every 3 or 4 minutes and misses bits, and they still haven't dealt with the glaring deficiencies in the EPG or sorting of recorded items. Spoke to supplier John Lewis' tech team and did a reset, but this hasn't resolved this particular issue. This box has so many niggles, it compounds them and makes it an issue.
There are brief reviews that return great results - on the face of it - and there's owning and living with a piece of tech that constantly irritates, lets you down and fails to deliver. The Aura is not a good piece of kit.