Note: With an older hörbert model 2011 with a toggle switch for turning it on/off, recordings are not possible. You can have your hörbert upgraded by us, or upgrade it yourself with our DIY Upgrade Kit for hörbert 2011 if you want to make recordings with it.
Listening to and recording internet radio with hörbert 3.0
- Connect your mobile phone, tablet or computer to hörbert’s WiFi by switching him on and pressing the Set button inside. hörbert opens his own WiFi network.
- hörbert will now appear on your device as a WiFi network. Connect to it. The WiFi password is: hoerbert
- Start an internet browser on your device, e.g. Chrome or Firefox. Enter the following web address there: http://hoerbert.local
- hörbert’s Browser Set Mode opens.
- In Browser Set Mode, go to the menu item “WIFI” and tick the “activated” box.
- Select your home WiFi from the list there and enter the WiFi password. Then click on “Save and test”.
- In Browser Set Mode, go to the menu item “PLAYLISTS” and select a playlist that you want to enable for web radio recordings. All recordings from the internet will then be saved there one after the other at the end.
- Store at least one valid web radio URL for this playlist. To do this, open the content list of the playlist you have enabled for web radio recordings in Browser Set Mode. Click on “+ RADIO” at the top of the title list.
- A keyword search for radio stations opens, from which you can choose.
- If you know the exact streaming URL, you can also enter it in the text line below and save it.
- Exit Browser Set Mode. After a few seconds, hörbert will start playing through his loudspeaker again.
- Select the playlist with the web radio URL and click your way through to it.
- hörbert indicates the search for the home WiFi and for the URL with an ascending sequence of tones and then plays the radio station after a few seconds.
- Start a recording by pressing the black and then the grey button at the same time until the red light at the microphone opening at the front lights up. You can then let go of the buttons.
- To stop the recording, press the black button again.
- The recording is saved at the end of the playlist that you previously enabled for web radio recordings in Browser Set Mode.
- If you have a hörbert with only three large playlist buttons, you don’t have a black or grey button to start and stop the recording. In that case, you first have to change the recording mode in Browser Set Mode under “Expert menu” in the “Recording settings“, so that a recording starts, for example, when you press and hold a playlist button. And the recording stops when you press a playlist button again. For more on this, see our manual for hörbert with Butterfly firmware from page 39 onwards.
If your hörbert 2021 doesn’t have the Butterfly firmware yet, an internet radio recording works as follows:
You can either upgrade to the Butterfly firmware if you want to use the simple method via Browser Set Mode (see above). Or you can proceed as follows:
- If the Butterfly firmware or newer isn’t installed on your hörbert yet, you’ll need a computer and the hörbert software to edit the memory card. You can find the current hörbert software on our website in the “Service” section under “Software Downloads“.
- Download the software and install it on your computer.
- Start the hörbert software. Select the correct hörbert model without a toggle switch.
- The hörbert software recognises the card and displays it as a drive. Select the SD card as the drive in the hörbert software and click on “Read card“.
- Click on the coloured button on the screen that you want to enable for internet radio recordings.
- At the bottom of the content window, select “Save internet radio recordings here“.
- Click on the green plus sign to the right of the word “URL”.
- You will now get a new text line at the end of the title list and can enter the streaming URL of your radio station there by double-clicking on the line. You need to know the URL; there’s no search for a suitable URL here. Save with “Enter”.
- Close the window using the green tick.
- In the hörbert software main menu, go to “Extras” and then to “Configure WiFi connections“.
- You can now store up to 5 WiFi networks by entering the WiFi name (without spaces) and the password and saving them.
- Eject the card properly using the green “Eject card” button and wait until the hörbert software tells you that you may now disconnect the card from the computer.
- Put the SD card back into hörbert.
- Switch hörbert on and wait until he plays.
- Then press the SET button inside; hörbert goes silent and is in SET mode.
- Now press the orange button on the front of hörbert for about 10 seconds to read the WiFi data into the device. You’ll hear a confirmation tone once hörbert has managed this.
- Then you can press the SET button inside again and wait until hörbert plays.
- Now select the button with the radio station. Navigate your way to the station.
- hörbert indicates the WiFi and station search with an ascending sequence of tones. It may take a few seconds before hörbert plays the station.
- Start a recording by pressing the black and grey buttons at the same time until the red light at the microphone opening at the front lights up. You can then let go of the buttons.
- To stop the recording, press the black button again.
- The recording is saved at the end of the playlist that you previously enabled for internet radio recordings in Browser Set Mode.
- If you have an accessible hörbert with only three large playlist buttons, you don’t have a black or grey button to start and stop the recording. In that case, you first have to change the recording mode in Browser Set Mode under the “Expert menu” in the “Recording settings”, so that a recording starts, for example, when you press and hold a playlist button. And the recording stops when you press a playlist button again. For more on this, see our manual for hörbert with Butterfly firmware from page 39 onwards.
- However, in order to be able to use Browser Set Mode, you first have to install the Butterfly firmware on your hörbert. With a 3-button hörbert, the home WiFi can also only be saved via Browser Set Mode.
- Here you’ll find all the information about the firmware update.
