Questions about hörbert

Note: Recordings are not possible with an older hörbert 2011 model with a toggle switch for switching on/off. You can have your hörbert updated by us or upgrade it yourself with our DIY upgrade kit for hörbert 2011 if you want to make recordings with it.

If your hörbert already has the Butterfly firmware, an Internet radio recording works as follows:

• Connect to hörbert’s WLAN with your mobile phone, tablet or computer by switching it on and pressing the Set button inside. hörbert opens its own WLAN.

• hörbert is now displayed as a WLAN network on your end device. Connect to it. The WLAN password is: hoerbert

• Start an internet browser on your end device, e.g. Chrome or Firefox. Enter the following web address there:

  http://hoerbert.local

• The hörbert browser set mode opens.

• Tick ‘activated’ in the ‘WLAN’ menu item in the browser set mode.

• Select your home WLAN from the list and enter the WLAN password. Then click on ‘Save and test’

• In the browser set mode, select a playlist in the ‘PLAYLISTS’ menu item that you want to share for web radio recordings. All recordings from the Internet will then be saved there one after the other.

• Enter at least one valid web radio URL for this playlist. To do this, open the content list of the playlist that you have authorised for web radio recordings in the Set Mode browser. Click on ‘+ RADIO’ at the top of the track list.

• A keyword search for radio stations from which you can choose will open.
• If you know the exact streaming URL, you can also insert it in the text line below and save it.
• Exit the browser set mode. After a few seconds, hörbert will start playing from his loudspeaker again.
• Select the playlist with the web radio URL and click through to it.
• hörbert will indicate the search for the home WLAN and the URL with an ascending sequence of tones and will then play the radio station after a few seconds.

• Start a recording by first pressing the black and then the grey button at the same time until the red light on the microphone opening at the front lights up. You can then release the buttons.

• To end the recording, press the black button again.
• The recording is saved at the end of the playlist that you have previously enabled for web radio recordings in browser set mode.

• If you have an hörbert with only three large playlist buttons, you do not have a black or grey button to start and stop recording. You must first change the recording mode in the browser set mode in the ‘Expert menu’ under ‘Recording settings’ so that a recording starts, for example, when you press and hold a playlist button. And the recording ends when you press a playlist button again. See also our instructions for hörbert with Butterfly firmware from page 40.

If your hörbert does not yet have the Butterfly firmware, an Internet radio recording works as follows:

You can either upgrade to the Butterfly firmware if you want to use the simple method via the Browser Set Mode (see above). Or you can proceed as follows:

• If no Butterfly firmware or newer is installed on your hörbert, you will need a computer and the hörbert software to edit the memory card. You can find the latest 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 toggle switch.

• The hörbert software recognises the card and displays it as a drive. Select the SD card as a drive in the hörbert software and click on ‘Read card’.

• Click on the coloured button on the screen that you want to share for Internet radio recordings.

• Select ‘Save Internet radio recordings here’ at the bottom of the content window.

• Click on the green plus sign to the right of the word ‘URL’.

• You will now receive a new text line in the track list at the end and can enter the streaming URL of your radio station there by double-clicking in the line. You must know the URL, there is no search for a suitable URL here. Save with ‘Enter’.

• Close the window by clicking the green tick.

• In the hörbert software main menu, go to ‘Extras’ and then to ‘Configure Wifi connections’.

• You can now save up to 5 WLAN networks by entering the WLAN 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 says that you can now disconnect the card from the computer.

• Insert the SD card back into hörbert.

• Turn hörbert on and wait until he plays.

• Then press the SET button inside of hörbert.
• Now press the orange button on the front of hörbert for approx. 10 seconds to read the WLAN data into the device. You will hear a confirmation tone when hörbert has done this.
• Then you can press the SET button inside again and wait for hörbert to play.

• Switch on hörbert and select the button with the radio station. Navigate to the station.

• hörbert indicates the WLAN and station search with an ascending tone sequence. It may take a few seconds for hörbert to play the station.

• Start a recording by pressing the black and grey buttons at the same time until the red light at the front of the microphone opening lights up. You can then release the buttons.

• To end the recording, press the black button again.

• The recording is saved at the end of the playlist that you have previously enabled for Internet radio recordings in browser set mode.

• If you have an accessible hörbert with only three large playlist buttons, you do not have a black or grey button to start and stop recording. You must first change the recording mode in the browser set mode in the ‘Expert menu’ under ‘Recording settings’ so that a recording starts, for example, when you press and hold a playlist button. And the recording ends when you press a playlist button again. See also our instructions for hörbert with Butterfly firmware from page 40

• However, to be able to use the Browser Set Mode, you must first install the Butterfly firmware on your hörbert. With a 3-button hörbert, the home WLAN can also only be saved via the browser set mode.

• Here you find all information regarding a Firmware Update.