Recent content by grumpyoneuk

Background: I went on holiday on 4th May 2016, returning on 19th May 2016, leaving box set with scheduled series and one-ff recordings. On return, on 19th, at 4:00 in the morning (cue for a song...) I turned tele on and the usual red button page appeared, but the Humax was frozen (no response...

Oh I don't know - I think 'The Wrath Of Ezra' is quite sinister - could be a title for an episode of Dr who!!. I'll try your sugestion when I get an opportunity in between tele tennis! Thanks

Thanks Ezra & MymsMan. (That is the position of the thread link). To expand, the issue I have with the thread link not being uptodate is it becomes extremely challenging to follow to arrive at issues, if any, with the cuurent release. That is precisely where I was (and still am) in trying to...

Two issues: Issue 1 - can the WEBIF update message include a pointer to the correct thread, please; currently it states: 26/06/2015 02:13:10 - Automatically upgraded package webif from 1.2.3-2 to 1.2.3-3 http://hummy.tv/forum/threads/5866/ Issue 2 - I no longer have any EPG data displayed...

As a consequence of my hard disk failure experience (see: "TELNET session with HDR-FOX-T2 Failing") I decided to replace the hard drive. It appears that the original "Seagate pipeline" disks have been phased out so I went for a "Seagate ST1000VM002" 1tb one which appears to be almost the same...

I have now successfully installed a replacement 1tb drive - I will update the thread on disk replacements with my experience.

Yep, the box works fine as a receiver, all menus operate except when referring to HDD when they are greyed out or, in the case of media options, only show music, video or photo options. (Shows HDD icon in top. right corner as white disc with tiny black slice and states HDD not available). So...

O.K. This is what happened next using the chmod... humax# cd /tmp humax# wget http://humaxdisk.wikispaces.com/file/view/fix-disk-0.3.tar/444720320 /fix-disk-0.3.tar Connecting to humaxdisk.wikispaces.com (208.43.192.33:80) fix-disk-0.3.tar 100% |*******************************| 17408...

Thanks, (he says, slapping forehead with palm of hand...)

Sorry, I don't want to appear doubtful but surely the operating system boots from the hard drive? As I can power off /on and the box boots up then the disk must be seated, surely.

No, I only use a USB device for firmware updates and don't leave it in afterwards . There has been for many, many months a HUMAX USB wireless network dongle on the box and that's what I'm communicating to the box through. This pre-dates my problem by a year or more.

This is the result of this exercise: humax# cd /tmp humax# wget httpp:**humaxdisk.wikispaces.com*file!view*fix-disk-0.3.tar*444720320 /fix-disk-0.3.tar Connecting to humaxdisk.wikispaces.com (208.43.192.33:80) fix-disk-0.3.tar 100% |*******************************| 17408 0:00:00 ETA...

This is the log excerpt: humax# smartctl -t short /dev/sda smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [7405b0-smp-linux-2.6.18-7.1] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, Smartctl open device: /dev/sda failed: No such device or address humax# - hope this is informative.

Thanks, When I can get to the machine I will give this a go.

I have a problem similar to others where I cannot connect via my browser(s) and load the GUI so I have followed the very useful thread to initiate a Telnet session with my box. This is successful, however the box does not respond to the maintenance menu options as documented. I have copied the...