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Humax Freesat not recording
Ferndog
22-12-2015
My Humax Freesat 1 TB recorder has stopped recording since 3rd December. It still shows the recording symbol on the channel lists. There is plenty of room on the HD. I have tried to delete planned recordings as some are way out of date but nothing happens when I press OK. I can only think of doing a factory reset but even an 85% full disk would lose a lot of recordings.
tealady
22-12-2015
I don't think a factory reset affects recordings; you would need a format disk for that.
Perhaps at 85% + system + temporary space it is full up ?

Alternatively, you could ask/search in this forum.
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/forum...ysprune=&f=199
Peter the Great
23-12-2015
Yet another Humax box that no longer records. Mine did this in late November and no longer even recognizes the hard drive. So I can longer record and all my recordings I had have disappeared. Sorry but these Humax boxes are a joke.
chrisjr
23-12-2015
Originally Posted by Peter the Great:
“Yet another Humax box that no longer records. Mine did this in late November and no longer even recognizes the hard drive. So I can longer record and all my recordings I had have disappeared. Sorry but these Humax boxes are a joke.”

Hard drives fail. That is what they do. Have you tried replacing the drive to see if that gets the machine back up and running?
Peter the Great
23-12-2015
Originally Posted by chrisjr:
“Hard drives fail. That is what they do. Have you tried replacing the drive to see if that gets the machine back up and running?”

From what I have been told it is not the hard drive itself.
AlanO
23-12-2015
Originally Posted by Peter the Great:
“From what I have been told it is not the hard drive itself.”

Which begs the obvious question - what have you been told and by whom?

There's no shortage of people on these boards who try to help - but at least give us a bit of a chance by declaring what you've already established.

As chrisjr correctly states - hard drives can and do fail - and the symptoms both you and another poster have given do suggest a Hard Drive failure.
chrisjr
23-12-2015
Originally Posted by Peter the Great:
“From what I have been told it is not the hard drive itself.”

Did the person telling you this inspect and test the actual machine or was it just someone posting an opinion on an internet forum? Without actually inspecting and testing the hardware in question no-one on an internet forum, myself included, can say with any degree of certainty that "XYZ" is the problem. It may be one of a number of possibilities.

You need to test the drive to see if it or the Humax has failed. This can be done relatively easily by removing it from the Humax and using a USB adapter to connect it to a PC. If the PC can recognise the drive and read the content (may need a suitable filesystem driver if it's not one the PC can read natively) then you can say the Humax is at fault. If the drive cannot be recognised by the PC regardless of what tools you use then that indicates a drive failure.

But unless you do some sort of testing you will never know.
grahamlthompson
23-12-2015
Knowing the model would help. There has been a number of failures on newer Humax Freetime boxes recently. The hard disk is not faulty when tested as above. Some even start working again after a extended period powered down. Humax and Freesat are aware of the issue and attempting to locate the problem.
bobcar
23-12-2015
There is more on these sort of problems on the My Humax forum which is probably worth a visit for those affected.
innes_calan
23-12-2015
hi folks, I have a FOXSAT 500hdr freesat and apart from some small hicups it has served me well, yes the remote is slow but the machine has done what it said on the tin! it's about 4 yrs old and still going, been looking at the upgrade models and reluctant to upgrade but I know I will have to soon, my question is which of the recent models would anyone reccomend? I know when I researched round the model I have people were apprehensive about the foxsat but I still love it! although it's slow to operate!
Alrightmate
24-12-2015
It is a valid suggestion to first find out whether it is your hard drive or your Satellite recorder which is at fault.
Because it's quite possible that a hard drive may work for a while, but then develops an error on it. if that happens then you can mess about with your satellite recorder in the hope that it might fix it till the cows come home, but if your hard drive has developed a fault then nothing you do with your sat recorder will change a thing.

Hard drives for TV recorders are quite important. For example it's important for your drive to have a fast write speed, and it can be quite hit and miss to just stick any old drive on it. Is your hard drive powered?
Alrightmate
24-12-2015
Originally Posted by innes_calan:
“hi folks, I have a FOXSAT 500hdr freesat and apart from some small hicups it has served me well, yes the remote is slow but the machine has done what it said on the tin! it's about 4 yrs old and still going, been looking at the upgrade models and reluctant to upgrade but I know I will have to soon, my question is which of the recent models would anyone reccomend? I know when I researched round the model I have people were apprehensive about the foxsat but I still love it! although it's slow to operate!”

I'd seriously consider other options. There are some decent Linux open satellite receivers. The Vu+ Duo 2 is supposed to be excellent, and there are cheaper alternatives such as the Technomate TM-5402 HD, and a new one which came out earlier this year called the ZGemma Star 2s. Read up about them first though. But if for some reason things don't work out then you haven't spent a fortune.
spiney2
27-12-2015
I hav a humax freeview, but, there should be a menu option to reset box without wiping disk ...... Then u get ''as new" setup menu but keep the recordings ...... Humax have their bad points but all round are probably ''least bad'' of very poor choices for f.t.a. tv viewers ........
spiney2
27-12-2015
My freeview humax occasionally gets confused or locks up ...... Above mentioned option always sorts it without losing recordings ........
barbeler
27-12-2015
You will find more than one thread about this if you go to Terrestrial | Freeview+ recorders (no, I don't know why it's in that section either). As this problem seems to affect YouView boxes as well, I suspect that it's actually a problem with the programme guide rather than the mechanical workings of the box. My theory is that the internet connection goes down during a scheduled update of the guide, which gives the box brain ache. Try deleting all your scheduled recordings and then unplug the router cable for a minute or so. I've had this problem before and always managed to recover from it, although I'm not always sure exactly what I did that cured it.
neil79
03-01-2016
I'm on my second Humax freesat box. I kept the first one for nearly 5 years and it was still working when I decided to update to a Itb wifi Humax freesat box a few years ago.
Contrast this with my previous experience with Sky satellite boxes with 2 failing on me in less than 3 years.
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