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#226 |
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If your signal is not the strongest, surely that should be the first area to address
. Who knows when the update will arrive and it may not be the cure you hope for.Other people have mentioned a poor signal as the cause of there problems. Other boxes on other platforms suffer the same. Hopefully one of the more technical savvy posters can help. Come October my main dish will burst back in to life and I'll get a good signal. This is why I've perservered and am waiting until then before thinking of returns. |
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If your signal is not the strongest, surely that should be the first area to address
. Who knows when the update will arrive and it may not be the cure you hope for.Other people have mentioned a poor signal as the cause of there problems. Other boxes on other platforms suffer the same. |
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I have had my Humax PVR for 6 months now and it has been flawless. If the channel and program line up meets your needs then yes I would highly recommend it. Yes others have had problems, however as always happens on forums, the people with problems tend to dominate the posts. When a post like yours crops up, us happy customers tend to speak out.
Without the upgrade, for me it's fine. ![]() |
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Re the power failure bug/feature
I was reading through the posts that were a few weeks back about problems with unreliable mains supply. It wasn't something that I suffer, but I take the point that it could happen when we are away on holiday. I had an idea for a workaround......
Reports suggest that the internal clock goes back to 00:00 when the mains is restored. If it continues to count upwards won't the box eventually reach a time when it thought it should wake up, it will wake up and correct its time but almost certainly have missed the original recording but possibly be ready for subsequent recordings. Does this mean that the worst that you can miss is one programme per outage? My idea for a workaround, assuming that the clock comes to life but set to zero, is to use the box's timer for setting a power on and power off time. (p41 of manual) Couldn't you set the box to have a wake-up at 00:30 and a turn off at 00:32. That way the box would correct itself within half an hour of the power being restored.... hypothetically! Sorry if this has been tried and failed or known workaround! ..... I lost the will to read all of the intervening posts as a few people "went off on one" and the signal got lost in the noise |
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I was reading through the posts that were a few weeks back about problems with unreliable mains supply. It wasn't something that I suffer, but I take the point that it could happen when we are away on holiday. I had an idea for a workaround......
Reports suggest that the internal clock goes back to 00:00 when the mains is restored. If it continues to count upwards won't the box eventually reach a time when it thought it should wake up, it will wake up and correct its time but almost certainly have missed the original recording but possibly be ready for subsequent recordings. Does this mean that the worst that you can miss is one programme per outage? My idea for a workaround, assuming that the clock comes to life but set to zero, is to use the box's timer for setting a power on and power off time. (p41 of manual) Couldn't you set the box to have a wake-up at 00:30 and a turn off at 00:32. That way the box would correct itself within half an hour of the power being restored.... hypothetically! Sorry if this has been tried and failed or known workaround! ..... I lost the will to read all of the intervening posts as a few people "went off on one" and the signal got lost in the noise ![]() You need a robot to push the front on button when the power comes back. Now where's that Meccano
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Fully agree with this. I ditched Sky and find the Freesat system to be far more reliable than the Sky box.
I would add that for me, SD through the Humax is excellent. Other posters disagree. |
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You need a robot to push the front on button when the power comes back. Now where's that Meccano
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I would add that for me, SD through the Humax is excellent. Other posters disagree.
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Reports suggest that the internal clock goes back to 00:00 when the mains is restored. If it continues to count upwards won't the box eventually reach a time when it thought it should wake up, it will wake up and correct its time but almost certainly have missed the original recording but possibly be ready for subsequent recordings. Does this mean that the worst that you can miss is one programme per outage?
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I found it indistinguishable from the output of my Sky box.
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. Who knows when the update will arrive and it may not be the cure you hope for.

