Recent content by davew04

My backup HDR has started to have this problem. When switching channels today, I briefly got decent signal/quality bargraphs which then went to one bar each, and the "channel is scrambled->no signal detected" thing, and this happened even when attached to an aerial cable that works fine on one...

For me, Winter Hill and a more distant transmitter (Wirral, IIRC) are in virtually the same direction, and from my hilltop position, my Humaxes can detect both. Given that the distant signal is much weaker, what works for me is a cheap variable attenuator that I use to damp down the aerial...

I had a UPS once that doubled as a foot-warmer under my desk. I suspect that it had a poor charging circuit for the SLA battery, because the first time I had a power cut, it only ran for a few seconds before cutting out, and testing the battery showed it was basically useless. Had an interesting...

Many thanks for that - fixflash did sort things out on my original unit (where the fan wasn't responding to a minimum speed from the fan package but was working in the default way), but didn't make a difference to the one I'd recently bought where there was no fan at any temperature. I guess...

I can't remember the precise details of what I did and when, but I'm pretty sure I had the fan package installed from scratch (at least, it's there now, with minimum speed set to 60%, and I don't imagine I would have installed it or changed settings after I switched the fan to power from the USB...

I installed the CF as soon as I got the unit, and the temperature monitor showed that the temperature kept going up, and when I looked, the fan wasn't running even though it obviously should have been, and the CF thought it was. I'd been wary about the unit as it had obviously had a smack at...

I paid £47 in October for a HDR (500GB) on ebay. I'm guessing it's an older version than my first one (my first was bought new in 2013, just before the 2000T replaced the T2) - it has horizontally arranged aerial connections rather than vertical. Works fine, though the fan didn't work, and that...

Ditto for me. My auto-updates are on. The web interface was working fine a few minutes ago. When I connected I saw the 'acknowledge updates' banner with (I think) three items in and clicked on it as usual, added a couple of programmes to my schedule, and after the obligatory reboot, the web...

The bodge solution I adopted was to install the ir package and use it to turn the humax off after changing schedules, rather than trying a reboot. When it is manually turned on again, the changes get applied, and if changes need to be applied before the next expected manual turn-on, I can just...

I'm not sure it's ever crashed as such in normal use - it's hung up a few times and needed powering off and on, but I guess since that's a 'complete startup' the issue wouldn't appear in that situation. Actually, remote reboot did seem to work just once, last week, but never before and not...

Firmware+CF is all up-to date (Custom firmware version: 3.03 (build 2368), Humax Version: 1.03.12 (kernel HDR_CFW_3.03)) but I've had the same issue from the first CF I was able to use on my HDR, which is an 'RE' with the vertical antenna sockets. I'm not sure of the precise age of my unit, but...

I have a late-model HDR, and I've never had a successful reboot from the web-if. On the reboot, I consistently get a “The receiver is not receiving a signal or the signal is too weak” message, which can only be fixed by turning off via the remote, waiting the ~8s until the HDR turns off properly...