Recent content by mr-b

Does anyone have a good idea of general Humax HDR-FOX reliability these days? My mother's HDR-FOX has just seemingly bitten the dust with a crash/reboot loop. Having followed the suggested diagnostics and disconnected the drive (data & power) there is no change. If it was like our old Topfields...

Ah thanks. Very odd. My PC-based SichboPVR, which is pretty good at keeping up, reported "EPG changed" but it didn't even have an entry for the second Stewart Lee ep.

Tx for the info. Yes, one was Stewart Lee's Tornado which indeed was bumped with the same symptoms but the other two were episodes of Coronation St, incidentally whose longevity looks very likely to outdo the late Queen, if not everything else!

HI I've started to see a few of these scheduled recordings fail in the last few days. They are HD and on different channels. There's nothing recent in the crash, activity log or disk smart data to indicate an issue. An instant recording works fine. Where should I be looking for failure reasons?

Sorry for late response. Yes that was a "doh!" from me when I found out he had a recording active, though it had never actually happened to me. Tx all!

Hi A friend is having an issue accessing various system menu options e.g. Installation, Signal Detection options are all greyed out and unselectable. My Hummy (though it is running custom firmware) prompts with a password before accessing various setup options but my friend does not see this. I...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/tell-bbc/#/Tell%20BBC Many tx for finding the right page! I wonder if other Freeview boxes are seeing similar for their series record functions.

Yes I have disable-ota installed. As for the decade-old info, I set all this up a looong time ago and I likely just read that the main EPG issue was fixed and in any case I'd not experienced any issues before when going away for a period. Tx for the tip on BBC1SD & BBC News HD reminders.

Great tx. I'm amazed this hasn't hosed folks going away on holiday. Though of course that hasn't been a possibililty for many recently. Would BBC News HD be suitable for the second reminder? Or does it have to be a non-HD channel? Finally can the time be changed from the early hours? It's in a...

Urgh no reply notification emails again. :-( I've read the above a few times but large parts of it fly over my head, save for tuning BBC1 (SD) - upon which magically the schedule has refreshed correctly - yay! :-) Can someone please advise this simpleton on what I need to do to prevent this...

My box is also now shutting down correctly (disk powers off, dim red ring). Some series recordings are working again but two others that were recreated and worked last night, are not detecting next week's episodes. The power options are Power Saving in Standby ON and Automatic Power Down ON...

Sorry for a late response - no reply notifications. :-( Interesting to hear Aaron-B's experience. Another thing I'd noticed since last year was that the power button ring now never goes dim red, it remains as dim blue. It's running the redring package but I haven't changed any settings. I'd...

My Hummy's been packed away for a couple of months during some building work but now it's powered back on, it seems to have missed recording any existing series. I checked the UI Scheduled Events page and it lists only dashes for the Start Time (the last one was back in Nov-21) and also for...

Just seen that reply. I just added a settop password and it worked! But adding "valid users = settop" in either [global] or [media] sections seemed to be authenticated but I could still access the share anonymously via Windows and ES Explorer. I restarted samba under Service rather than a reboot...

I shudder at the memory of this - sorry I never found a solution and had to file it in the "too hard" pile. I got as far as https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smbpasswd.8.html smbpasswd -a fred New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: User fred does not exist in system password...