Found another fault in the Humax that seems to be persisting so I'm sure this is a design / coding problem not a unit specific problem.

When searching the epg for programmes later in the day (by using the navigation wheel to move to the right along a channel's timeline away from the current time usually only by one or two programmes so still on the current page), I'm finding that sometimes after pressing the back button to return to the current time, when I use the down side of the wheel to move down the channels on the epg, the cursor jumps back to the position it was last on, on the right of the epg and scrolls down from there instead of staying in the current time position on the left. This happens repeatedly and can only be alleviated by moving the cursor manually to the current time position by using hte left hand side of the wheel before scrolling down further. This quirk is intermittent in nature athough frequent.

Could it be a dodgy remote?

I've always found this annoying, just assumed it was " A Feature"
Hope they fix it at some point.

I occasionally get another similar fault that suggests that the remote needs cleaning.
Has anyone found a non-destructive way of opening the remote?

David

I've seen no evidence its the remote as the back button works - the cursor returns to the current time in the epg. However, when you scroll downwards, it immeidately jumps back to the last place on the screen it was before you pressed back and then scrolls down from there.

I'm not saying it isn't the remote but if it was I wouldn't expect it to go back in the 1st place or then jump multipe programmes instantly back to where it was before on pressing the down side. My guess is a coding issue.

As for opening the remote, only Bob Cat can tell you how or maybe one of the dealers on here.

I don't think it is so much a fault as simply not fully described in the manual - like a lot of other things.
In the EPG you get a window with a 2 hour time-frame with the cursor on the programme you are currently watching.
If you move to the right in the original window the Humax assumes that is the new time-frame you want to look at. It will then display programmes currently on (or starting at) the same time as the last highlighted programme.
The way around this is instead of pressing the 'back' button move the cursor to the left within the original window back to the current time automatically changing the time-frame in memory.
I think they used the 'back' button feature to allow you to return quickly to the current time if you are in a window way out of the current time-frame, say several days ahead to avoid using the < or << or |<< keys repeatedly.
It could be changed by disengaging the 'back' button in the original time-frame window forcing you to use the left arrow.

I will open a separate thread, about opening the remote, to avoid confusion.

David