Recent content by Stummery

Has been sorted. Thank you to Geoff

There is an item, a little smaller than an Humax HDR-Fox T2, on Ebay that I am interested in - but the person will only accept collection in person. The item is located in the Wirral CH63 9JU area and is boxed and complete with original packing so should be fairly easy to send on. Is there...

Looking at the pictures you have provided the green wire has not been prepared, fitted or soldered very well. I would be embarrassed if I had charged a fee for that workmanship !

Correct, tunefix is installed and carrying out its process - thank you for that package. :) I mainly do manual tuning, in channel order, so 29 is the last mux tuned and as Luke and BH said it will only populate the signal information for that last mux. As the signal data information is not live...

OK, thanks for all your helpful replies. I have carried out an auto retune and all the information is now present. Thank you for the information as to how and when the information is gathered, as it is not live data it is of little use. If I want or need to check in the future I will use the OSD.

The box works without any problems and the EPG shows correctly. If I access the signal information from the OSD it all shows correctly. But I have noticed that on one of my boxes the multiplex signal information for all the DVB-T channels is blank, but the DVB-T2 info is there. . If I expand...

I do the same as @everthewatcher and use a timer to turn off the power to my boxes from 1am until 6pm. My main reasoning being that electrolytic capacitors, having a limited working lifespan (The 4.7uF being a case we are aware of), will be the components most likely to fail 1st from power on...

So timewise it should still (just) be under warranty ? Do you have any access to how much data has been written to see if it is within the 80TB ?

If you post your location, there may be someone near to you who is willing to help.

What channel is your WiFi on ? IIRC the Humax won't connect or show the network name SSID if the channel is set to 4 or below.

Agree with BH. To add my experience. I have 4 HDRs that have been using various cheap RT3070 dongles for many years without any problems. Maybe OS is not as good with hardware as they assume :laugh:

It would be interesting to discover the outcome if someone who has a unit with this fault could just remove the 4.7uF capacitor and see what happens.

Since my previous post I have, in the simulation, placed a variable resistor in parallel with the 4.7uF capacitor and it needs setting to a value of less than 400 ohms before it starts to reduce the output voltage, less than 350 ohms before the output voltage drops below 10 volts and 330 ohms...

If anyone is interested and has any thoughts/comments I have copied the circuit in to Proteus simulation software. As expected without the 4.7uF capacitor the switching is more or less instantaneous. I include the oscilloscope traces for switch on and off of the HDD control, that is 5v and 0v...

It is also confusing and doesn't help when threads go completely off topic - like this one has for the last 10 posts or so. :dunno: