Recent content by Trilobite

Have you tried the other hard reset? Switch off at the wall socket for about a minute - but leave the television on, switched to the hdmi socket the Aura is plugged in to. Press and hold down the Aura's power button (on the box itself: top, front right-hand corner). Keep the power button...

Well, after the above, I reset the box to basics, tuned the channels in, connected the wi-fi to update the Freeview app, then switched off the wi-fi and turned off 'scan for networks'. I have Primeval on Sky Mix, on series record, basically Mon-Fri each week. And the box has largely been...

I had two failures on Saturday - a Sherlock Holmes film and Dixon of Dock Green - both on TPTV. Neither of them recorded, or were playable. The 'channel icon' in front of the scheduled to record programme - for both of the above - was completely blank. The box is usually in deep sleep mode, but...

I had the runaway recording too, around Christmas - on ITV 3 - and I was tinkering around in the settings menus at the time, so that might be to blame. I've also had the opposite... dodgy/no recordings. That happened yesterday, when TalkingPicturesTV 'Mrs Pym of Scotland Yard' somehow missed...

The BBC CATAL has various tests and testcards, such as UHD wildlife footage, and there were other tests of HD style, for Drama, Soap and Strictly. The Drama one was of Jodie Whittaker's Dr Who debut.

I also came across another setting, albeit minor... In the Channel Signal Strength display page, press RED - GREEN - YELLOW - BLUE - BLUE. It seems to toggle between 'Screen Mode: On' and 'Screen Mode: Off', if done quickly enough. What that is, I do not know.

Another secret menu : DEVELOP WEB MODE Navigate to: Freeview Play (the white 'F' button) Settings cogwheel, on top right of the page Freeview Play Preference scroll right down to System Information (just above the two Reset options) OK 'System Information' appears, against a somewhat random...

The third option only seems to query the server, based on whether Options 1, 2 and 4 are set to True or False. Thus with False, DigitalUk server is the default. With True, FreeviewPlay server is returned.

It is a pity flat panel televisions these days don't offer a simple method of adding loudspeakers. I'm sure I had a Panasonic CRT telly TX-28W3 which had 'external speakers' sockets (the 'flat blade and pin' DIN style). Not that that set really needed such a feature, as the built in speakers...

The ancient Humax single tuner PVR-8000T was similar: minor editing of programmes, and some basic games were on that box too.

Can the Humax Aura be programmed to 'wake' and 'sleep' at set times, like the HDR-Fox T2 can (via the 'Preferences' - 'Power on timer '- 'Power off timer', etc)? e.g. 'On at 5:30am; Off at 5:50am' (to fill the EPG). I was wondering whether doing so might 'fix' the Aura's lengthy start sequence...

Angus transmitter: attempted to record CBBC HD on Saturday, past. Programme was EPG timer recorded, programme was briefly viewed live to check what was being broadcast. Later attempts to view were met with "0 mins" error. Deletion of unwatchable programme freed up corresponding space. Irritating...

Thanks for the info. I'll have a fiddle around when I get a chance. There's a LAN cable kicking about somewhere.

Well I do have the customised firmware installed, but cannot use it (no internet access, no router). The built-in standard disk checker is rather inconsistent in operation. Sometimes it checks the disk inside a couple of minutes and reports that no faults were found; other times taking longer...

My 1Tb box has progressively become more flaky over the past couple of months: slow-to-respond remote control, delayed reaction to commands, "Channel Scrambled" message, inability to record a channel and play back a previous recording at the same time. Disk was about 2/3 full. Some furious disk...