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paul15
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Hi guys, I need some advice, on my Humax Freesat box. For some reason, it is taking 4 minutes + for my unit to "receive programme information". Which is a pain when you go onto the EMG to record something. Is there any way to speed this up?
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Paul.
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Paul.
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There are other reports about of similar, somethings afoot :eek:
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Paul.
'Deal or No Deal' did not record from Series and 'Dinner Date' only recorded 15 mins of one hour show..agian Series..
Just the day when Janet had missed both..
Based on Random Activity Sampling .. which i was something of an expert on when i was a WSP way back.. i must agree with her that it regularly fails:o..
She has not watched any of 6 per day recordings for several weeks... then this happens..She speaks highly of the Panny TV...and Sky has no equal..her 4 Sky Remotes make the cabling to the loft sizzle at times and yet her small pleasures cannot be satisfied by a modern Humax she now tells people..
This box seems to be getting slower getting the data something that didn't happen till the update :mad:
I don't think its anything to do with the new firmware - many of us on the forums have been running V15 firmware since it was released as Beta (last December) and not noticed any (new) issues.
However, I will admit that the past few weeks there has been an influx of problems with the guide and programs not recording (which as far as I can see only appear to affect Humax). I can't help thinking it maybe related to some minor changes that Freesat may have made to the EPG data (or Freesat transponder) that is randomly affecting Humax boxes (i.e. that night a few weeks ago were everyones Humax boxes did not record the next day unless brought manually out of standby - perhaps that was the start of changes being implemented).
Me too........
I went through the re-tune process (previously worked to resolve this problem) e.g Initiate Freesat tune but don't save results. Didn't work this time. Then did a full factory reset. Didn't work. Just checked again five minutes ago, all now seems back to normal. Must have been a transmission data stream issue within the network that has now been resolved at Freesat end.
Interesting to note anyone using Schedule/Red rather than guide would not have been aware of the problem at all.
I said in another thread that I didn't think it had always been that quick, and lo and behold, it slows down dramatically one night! Not my fault
Cheers,
David.
It's not a carousel, it's a dedicated data channel transmitted from Eurobird 1 (11427 H) on request on a dedicated transponder, which is why you can't watch live TV while accessing it No tuner 1 available you get the cached copy.
There is a epg carousel transmitted along with the broadcast data (similar to Freeview) this updates the cached epg in the background. Basically this post is pure rubbish attempting to blame Humax from pure ignorance.
Speaking as someone without any technical insight, all I (and probably many other Foxsat owners) want is the same functionality before the update that made the EPG work very slowly and removed the program reminder function.
As I've said in other posts on the same topic, I don't want work arounds, I want it to work.
I want an EPG that lets me set recording without waiting for 40 seconds or whatever and I want to be able to set reminders. Neither do I want to see subtitles following a live pause of BBC HD,
So if ignorance is expecting the box not to loose functionality on a so called FW upgrade then I am pig ignorant and proud.
A permanent fix for the subtitles is dead easy and takes seconds.
Other makes were also affected by last nights problems at Freesat not just Humax, the rant about Humax was completely wrong. Try reading the Samsung thread in this very forum.
If posters don't understand the technology they should refrain from comments that infer that they do.
That would explain the slightly differing postings from those affected and also why those savvy enough to use the cached epg version were not affected in any way.
If the subtitle fix is easy and permanent the Humax CS guy didn't feel the need to enlighten me, I'll go search for it, thanks.
However, the two major bugs still stand:
1 - waiting 40 seconds for the EPG to update to be able to set a recording when it was previously zero seconds - Humax's problem.
2 - the loss of program reminder - also Humax's problem.
Seems to me nobody on Humax's end bothered to do any regression testing before the released the updated FW.
I'll try the various resets/retunes and see if it clears.
Thanks.
I and others used the beta firmware without issue for weeks before it became an official release. My box offers Record Whole Series, Record Single Programme and Watch from the epg. And record or watch from a manual recording reservation same as it always did. So what precisely are you missing ?