Some time ago my EPG became prone to freezing, switching off, then on, at the back always cured it, but didn't cure my irritation !
Now this new type of freeze has started, i.e. list of recorded items does not populate. It doesnt happen every time.

Switching off on the box worries me that I may permanently stop ongoing recordings.

Has anyone had the same problem & found a better cure?

David

Apply the firmware update from the Humax beta site.

Thanks for that, Repassac.
I had not tried USB updates before so it stirred a few of my remaining grey cells !

It moved me from
Software HPRSFCI 1.0017
& Update date 20 Sept 2011
Software HPRSFCI 1.0020
with Update date 10 Mar 2012

Was that what was intended ?
The Loader Version remained at U 7.51
I understood that this only impacted on Disceq Switching that I dont use, yet

David

Thats correct - all should be fine now - if not post again please.

Seems to have cured it, thanks REPASSAC.

David

Back to not populating !
Cured again by switching off HDR by remote.
No recordings were occurring at the time.
Regarding the general occurrence, this is a new phenomena, in the last week,so needing to suddenly change the firmware does seem a long shot.
Occasional freezing of the EPG has happened for about 2 months.

I have not observed a pattern yet but both only happens on a minority of occasions.
David

Think this could be a failing hard disk.

Ouch ! that was a 2TB replacement of the original disk.
Anyone know how to test disks?
I think I'll copy some chunks to caddy disk.
David

Testing the new HD by refitting the original 320GB disc seems to confirm REPASSAC's diagnosis that the HD is the problem.

Next I sought a replacement WD20EVDS.
My snag seems to be that the WD20EVDS seems to have been superseded, & is not available.
I feel that 2 TB was too much & 1.5 or even 1 TB is enough for my needs

Has anyone fitted a 1 TB or 1.5 TB drive, that works?

David

HELP !! The plot thickens !
When I had replaced the original 320Gb drive into the HDR it always populated the Media List properly.
The 2 Tb drive could be in a caddy I could access its files & play them on the TV.
This made me wonder if the hard drive really had failed, so I swapped it back into the HDR & put the 320 Gb drive in the USB linked caddy.
The big drive usually populated the Media List except if I was recording something & after watching a live channel wanted the watch something recorded or recording.
Then the media list was sometimes blank. If it was I could always restore it by switching the HDR off then on. I wouldn't usually want to do that if I was recording !
Not populating the Media List did sometimes happen when I was not recording.
If the Media list was blank & I went into File Manager then all the folders could be seen but they were followed by (0) so it thought there were no files in the folders.
I began to wonder if the 2 TB drive was somehow not being fully recognised by the HDR. so tried a factory reset. This seemed to work for 2 days then the Media List failed again to populate.

I wonder if anyone else has seen these effects ?

If it was a PC I would delete & reinstall the offending program. How do I do that to the HDR?

David

Do you get a good signal on channel 999?

Both strength & quality are 100%.

David

Yes I installed a WD 1TB (CE/AV) drive in 2008,still working touch wood). (WD10EACS).

Current WD AV drives

http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/librar...879-701250.pdf

Thanks Graham, since I asked the question I'd heard that the WD factory had been flooded. That is possibly why the previous one that I used is not in stock.
I'll choose another eventually, though I'll hang on until REPASSAC has explained his "Channel 999 signal good ?" question.
I'm running short of £125 notes.

I missed a trick when I chose my caddy, mine doesn't accept drives like a toaster takes bread.(yours sounds like that) Its 10 minutes work with screwdriver & wriggling.
David

Channel 999 is the freesat home transponder - the source of the EPG data.

If you get any more missing EPG data try downloading a new EPG - Go into the Guide and wait for the background sound to return.

Another thought - I wonnder if the problem was a defective sector in the 0.ts file - the buffer for the channel being viewed. If you have the Media and file sharing bundle installed you could try renaming it - the Foxsat will recreate it elsewhere on the disk.

Just to be clear, my difficulty, with the EPG not populating, has NOT recurred since I downloaded
Software HPRSFCI 1.0020 with Update date 10 Mar 2012, via a USB stick.
So that seems to have cured part of my problem, thanks for that suggestion.

The remaining problem is population of the list of video files recorded, which I think is called the media list


No I have not yet taken Raydon's bundle. I was waiting for

1-- for my internet connection to be improved, I was getting 0.1 Mbps to 0.8 Mbps & following replacement of part of my wet string by copper I get anything from 0.01 to 2.5 Mbps. Work still in progress !!

2-- I thought that I should resolve the "media list" problem before getting the media bundle. Thinking that if it was a firmware problem, it might get worse by being made more complicated.

David

It sounds very much like a disk problem - possibly file system curruption or worse still detective sectors.

Is there any consistancy as to what it shows you and what it does not?

1. The bundle (unless you want to use it externally) works on your Lan so I would guess that would give you 100mbs at least.

2. It would be only slightly more complicated and it would create the possibility of running a disk repair on the HDR it's self. You could also try putting it in a caddy and booting your PC on a USB stick with Ubuntu or such. If you are going to try this then run first in a check only but don't repair mode. http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/repair...le-system.html

I was afraid of that but when the 2Tb disc was connected via USB in an external caddy, I could see all the files & play them. However that kind of connection does not allow recording to it. So I wondered if instead being inside the HDR shows up some transient errors that do not arise when externally connected.


No. It has worked normally all yesterday & today.
A pity in one respect because I wanted to recheck something that reset it without switching the HDR off.
The last time it arose I pressed the "Back" button & it reset without a switch off. This seems illogical, but if it it work consistently I might live with it.
(I pressed the back button by mistake! so if it has worked it would be extreme serendipity)

Also my instinct was to reload the firmware as it was just possibly corrupted or misloaded. If I copied 1.00.20 afresh & applied it via a USB stick would that overwrite my current version?


I may well have misunderstood but thought that the bundle was partly to better handle iPlayer etc


I had to partition my 2Tb drive using a boot-able disc carrying GParted. That was over a year ago but using UBUNTU should be similar.
If I did that would I be able to use a fsck facility to check/repair the suspect disc?

If I loaded the Raydon bundle onto a corrupt 1.00.20 where would that leave me?

David

Media list froze empty again, back button not effective!
David

David,
Inconsistency is difficult to pin down - reapplying the firmware would do no harm but I suspect no good. Humax do checksums before flashing to ensure all is well.

You misunderstand the main use of the bundle is on your home network - to see the Humax file system - to play recordings on it on your PC, etc, etc.

Yes to umbutu and fsck - but run in check mode first and always tell it the file system.

Well if HD4 is corrupt then I don't know - but I would suspect not unless you have been loading pictures and Music - hardly anyone does (except me).

I expected updates OTA would be good but I actually input it by memory stick. I presumed the OTA would think all was up to date when it saw the label 1.00.20, but it might actually not be, I cant do checksums on it.

One last thing when faced with a blank media list clicking the page or line advance button produces a "no entry" circle with diagonal line through it.

I'll dig out a way to load Ubuntu on my spare PC & give it a whirl.

I have only recorded satellite video.

I have bought a 1.5Tb HDD & formatted it to ext3.

I have temporarily given up on using the 2Tb drive I wonder if I made the 2nd partition too small, its the one that deals with the EPG & I left it the same as in the 320Gb original instead of increasing it in 2000 over 320 ratio.
I cannot test this until I can save the files from 2 Tb to 1.5 Tb.

Does anyone know the best way to copy the files from 2Tb to 1.5 TB drive. Some are HD recordings !

David

This summarises all the ways I know of accessing the recordings on a Foxsat-hdr

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...46&postcount=6

Thanks Graham, very prompt!
I thought you were one of 2 who threatened to ask beginners questions on Raydon's system. So that just leaves me.

1--Does the package just download to my windows PC, then sit there & tweak everything else from there? or does the PC have to be running Linux. I had already tried it, in Windows Vista, & it didn't do anything.

2-- Presumably the FAQs answer that but first I must open the package-- I did warn about daft questions.

David

Since installing it's proved very user friendly , though I have asked daft questions in other places .

Make sure you use the latest version which includes the latest V1.00.20 firmware.

Basically all the information you need is in the text document that comes with it when you extract the files from the rar archive. If you need a rar extractor theres a free one here

http://www.7-zip.org/

Very briefly you install the patch in the same way as you update the firmware from a usb stick with a .hdf file on it.

Once installed you make a note of the IP address used by your Foxsat-hdr open a web browser and type this into the url locator of your browser.

This miraculously connects to your hdr and installs the basic system on it required to make it work.

After installing on the hdr reboot and wait about 10 mins or so for the software to get all the info it needs.

Re-connect to the same IP address, you now have the option of installing extra packages just by clicking on the install button. Latest updates are available just by clicking on a button.

Amongst these are two ftp servers that allow you to directly transfer files to and from your PC using a ftp client (I used tiny-ftp).

Samba - which makes the Foxsat-hdr drives usable in Windows Explorer.

The remote control which has posh icon shortcuts and programmeable macro buttons.

The channel editor which lets you add non-freesat channels to Freesat mode and sets up the capability for manual recording timers for these channels and adds the BBC interactive streams as freesat channels.

Once installed you can access the whole caboodle on anything with a browser. It's kind of cool to control the box from a smart phone

It's a remarkable co-operation between some very talented programmers. You don't need any programming knowledge at all just the normal familiarity with using Windows and one of the common web browsers.