I had a bizarre, related problem last night with my HDR. Went to record something from the EPG and got the "waiting for..." message. This was using "Sched/Red" not guide (.17 firmware). Tried a live manual recording but pressing record did nothing. Checked nothing else was recording at the time. Tried power cycling through standby, no difference.
Tried power cycling using the switch on the rear, and when it booted it came up with just the channel name on the i-plate banner, no time or other info. Tried to look at EPG but got a message "not possible until system time is set" or words to that effect. Waited, no change. Looked at recording schedule, which was blank (should have many entries).
Tried re-booting again from rear power switch with the same result. The box was on ITV1, just out of curiousity I selected "101" for BBC1. As soon as the channel changed the BBC1 banner came up with all the info and time. Checking, everything was back to normal again, including the recording schedule which was fully populated as it should be.
Is it possible that the ITV mux wasn't carrying time info, or the EPG was somehow not being received? All is fine now, but the cure was to change channel! What was all that about??
The only other thing which may have had a bearing on this was that yesterday morning the satellite signal was lost due to absolute torrential rain, came back after 3 or 4 minutes.