Anyone give me a pointer as to why the series link on my humax only seems to record what it wants ?

My better half has it set to tape Eastenders, Coronation St etc.

Usually it does, but other times it just seems to decide not to bother. The recordings do seem to be shown in the recoding list - but they just aint in the list of recordings after the programs finished !

Id like to think its some advanced AI knowing these programs suck and therefore skipping them.. but alas I dout this is the case !

Thanks in advance.

Most often this is caused by receiving Accurate Recording signal triggers from more than one transmitter.

Where are you? Do you know which transmitter? Do you have any channels in your list, up in the 800 range of channel numbers?

Rgds.


Les.

The prime suspect is that the Humax is tuned into more than one transmitter. See this post:
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...2&postcount=19

Or perhaps you are often in the games option when the programmes start?

I've had my 9200T randomly 'forget' a series linked recording.... usually it records the one originally set but it MAY then decide to 'forget' next week's. (e.g. I recall it happening for Holby, Casualty and some C4 progs, too.)

I regularly check through the Guide against a listings mag (marked up) that all the progs we expect are marked for recording.

Don't record the soaps you mention.

Absolutely no chance of receiving from two transmitters here in easternmost England.

Have you actually checked to see that there are no programs listed in the 800s. There may still be a conflict even though you say that you are some distance from another transmitter. Hope this helps.

Im in the North East... Dont think I have any channels u in the 800's - I recall there was when the switch over took place, but I did a full retune IIRC.

I am using a custom list so I can dictate the channel order... if that makes any difference...



Thanks

Not having any TV and radio channels in the 800s is not a guarantee that the Humax is tuned into just one transmitter.

If you just deleted all the TV channels before your retune and not all the radio channels as well, that could be the cause.

Using a custom channel list would not make any difference.

I dont recall how I removed them now TBH. Initially it did whatever it wanted to do when the switch thing happened not so long back.

This seemed to leave it totally confused when cycling channels, so I thing I just told it to reset all the channels and go and look for them again.

Is there a way I can tell if this is the problem ?

If you could face another retune I suggest that you [LIST][*]delete all TV&Radio channels[*]Manually retune to just your preferred transmitter[*]Setup your schedule again[*]Setup your channel list again[/LIST]For how to do the first two see
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...&postcount=151

OK, I think ill give that a spin. Thanks.

I knowthat there is zero chance of me receiving any other digital transmitter here (currently). The BBC's spectrum planners agree as well. I have some expertise in TV reception matters.
I have , indeed I do check every time I re-tune, the Humax that there are no 800 channels.
The only time I had one was the Five 'retune now' MHEG application after the last national retune day. I deleted it, of course.

I have had to re-reserve some more 'forgotten' series linked programmes since my last post.

This is an acknowledged bug but so far nobody has seen a pattern to the disappearing series link entries. Perhaps you could keep a log and see if you can perceive a pattern.

Has this occurred more since the great retune? It seems so to me.

In which case, as Humax have acknowledged they have a new bug caused by the retune, maybe the series link is affected in some bizarre way. The new bug - they say they weren't told about the retune - seems to cause their machines to go slow. Particularly shown by sluggish reaction to the remote control.

Richard

No. It has been reported ever since 1.00.21 came out. We probably see one lost timer every couple of weeks.

Well mines been fine following the deletion of all channels and a manual retune as described in the link.

Thanks

I am going to try another re-tune later today - if I keep losing series links I will be gettin a toppy, I am completely fed up with the Hummy 9200t been a waste of money so far

I'm on the Heathfield transmitter and there are some occasions where ITV doesn't record a series linked program. I've tried setting GMTV as a series link before and some days it recorded and some days it didn't. Maybe there is an intermittent quality filter in the Hummy!

Have you checked that you are not receiving signals from more than one transmitter? See the earlier posts in this thread.

Colin

I think mine is not recording series links, at least I thought that was the problem.
I found ramdom programmes recorded which I didn't remember setting.
However I have checked them more recently and they ARE my missing programmes, the Hummy has just given them wrong titles.
Why does it do this?

Your file system is corrupt. Best advice is to watch any important recordings and then format the drive. If you do nothing the problem will get worse and culminate with the loss of all recordings.

Yup! Definitely only receiving from Heathfield.

As I said, just sometimes on some ITV progs SL doesn't work. I'm putting it down to ITV just not sending the SL info sometimes.

Me and the Hummy are fighting over SL Celebrity Big Brother at the moment..... I've got clashes on Sat and Sun with other progs and have OK'd the alternate reservation for CBB on C4+1
BUT
in the Guide it's showing reservations for C4 on Sat and Sun along with the other programmes --- i.e. three reservations for the same timeslot. AND it shows the reservation on C4+1 as well!

I've tried deleting and re-entering a few times now - in different orders, too!

I'll just have to delete the SL version on Saturday and make one programme versions; then re-try SL on Monday.:yawn:

Holby City next week had to be added manually from the Guide, even though it had been orphaned last week due to the football this week I was watching for it to be picked up automatically

Just last night we discovered a series link recording couldn't be set up due to a "conflicting" choice. It said we were already recording two other programmes at the same time. The one we wanted wasn't showing the series link recording icon in the EPG.

On examining the recording list, the one we were unable to record was actually set, (though not shown as such in the EPG). Deleting it from the list allowed a series recording to be set up in the EPG! This suggests the link between the EPG and Recordings List fails!

Richard

We have seen a number of these recently all on ITV which suggests to me that this is the broadcasters changing the meta data.

I've had one incidence of losing a Series Record setting of BBC1 News at 18:00. I think this may have been associated with some last minute changes to the EPG when they transferred the late running Wimbledon Murray match from BBC1 to BBC2. My Vestel PVR survived the same incident without any effect. That was I think the first occurrence of the total loss of the Series Record setting rather than just the failure of one recording in the series.

Colin