Hi

Have any of the other Humax HDR T2 owners out there come across this before?

I bought the FOX HDR T2 yesterday to replace my Thomson Top UP TV box which has finally died (PSU problems). When I connected the Humax up, all was well, until I swicthed it off (on standby), and for some bizarre reason when it was switched into stand by, it drops every MUX apart from the BBC MUX, such that when watching ITV through the TV (not the PVR) there is no signal reported on all channels apart from on the BBC MUX (I am on the Belmont transmitter).

The Thomsom box worked fine from the same aerial, and the TV works when not run through the Humax box.

It was odd that it dropped out all other MUXs apart from the BBC MUX. Before people jump in and suggest that it might be lack of signal, why drop out all MUXs apart from the BBC one (OK I know that MUX is stronger)? But it works through the Thomson PVR and when the Humax is by passed.

If I connect the aerial cable to the TV directly to the aerial cable the other MUXes return. So it is definitely the Humax causing the probelms.

OK I think, I have a faulty box (typical), so I drove a return journey of 80 miles to return the box. I got a replacement and hey presto, exactly the same problem.

What is going on, has anyone else experienced this with this box at all? I couldn't find any software updates on the Humax web site for this box. Does anyone else have a clue before I embark on another 80 mile round trip to return it?

Thanks for any help.
Last edited by JonCollett : 19-09-2010 at 18:42

Maybe the handbook gives a clue?

Power Management
MENU  Settings  System  Power Management
Setting Power Saving in Standby
You can minimise the standby power consumption
to below 1W.
1. Select Power Saving in Standby.
2. Select On to deactivate the certain features
and minimise the power consumption.
Note: When Power Saving in Standby is
switched On the Time on the front display
will not appear when in standby, nor will
the Antenna Out loop-through the signal
to a connected device.

Why wouldn't it take all MUXs instead of leaving one actve? I did try that on the previous box to no avail. I will try it on the replacement.

You've already said that MUX is stronger than the rest, in your location it is obviously strong enough to 'break through' the Humax. Save yourself 80 miles worth of petrol and spend an hour reading the manual I think is the moral of this story. Not to mention a perfectly good box being sent back to Humax, or worse still being sold to someone else as new.

The first box was most definitely faulty, and I did try switching the Power saving option off - it didn't work (so Humax got a faulty box back). If you are correct in your asumption that the MUX that was not removed was because it 'broke through' doesn't this indicate somthing amiss (why should anything break through, how eco friendly is this option really?). I should have tried the Power saving option again on the 2nd box (hands up, and thanks to coulrophobe), but with a confusing 1 MUX output this mislead me into thinking that the fault lay with the hardware.

In electronics there is something called capacitive coupling which essentially means that a signal can be coupled from one part of a circuit to another. Factors involved would be proximity, screening, frequency and signal strength. If you have a strong signal coming down the aerial cable (maybe you have an amplifier) and with you saying that MUX was stronger than the rest then it's possible that only that MUX might 'break through' between the aerial lead and the lead going to the telly via the Humax. It's not an indication that there is anything wrong with the box. A good example of capacitive coupling is the reason hard disk drives have changed from PATA to SATA as data speed (frequency) increased.

Sorry to hijack the thread but I wondered if Big-les had any thoughts about the odd problem I have which I discuss in thread http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s....php?t=1340020