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    1. Tim Day

      EPG awful

      Yup! That was news to me! Thanks! V.useful! I did know about the favourites list mentioned by BH, but never really tried setting it up sensibly and using it in anger. In conjunction with the above it suddenly becomes a whole load more attractive.
    2. Tim Day

      EPG awful

      I'm another toppy-to-hummy switcher of a few years ago. And I also remember the single biggest "culture shock" being the EPG. I still think the toppy was better for quickly zooming through everything a single channel had to offer for several days into the future; the hummy takes too long to go...
    3. Tim Day

      HDR FOX T2 - does the tuner fall over at low temperatures?

      I'm late to this thread, by my dampness and reception story is: After some winter storms and a run of persistently wet weather our signal strength and quality on some channels seemed to be declining. Eventually I went up on the roof to see if the aerial was falling down. It wasn't, but a...
    4. Tim Day

      About to order but is 1TB model still having "issues"

      Maybe we've just been unlucky, but I've had 3 returns since we first bought the thing (1TB model). The first return was a definite disk fail. Swapped under warranty. The second one we weren't sure what was going on but the box was crashing a lot. Swapped under warranty replacement promptly...
    5. Tim Day

      Youtube not working

      Just a "me too" on the Hummy YouTube portal "Temporary error - please try again" error. (I haven't tried YouTube in months, but had a few longer things to watch so thought I'd watch them on the TV. Disappointing). Just running stock firmware, whatever the latest one is.
    6. Tim Day

      Pixelation on HD viewing and recording

      I did wonder about that. We get our signal from Craigkelly which according to http://www.tvretune.co.uk/ has Groups 1-5+HD on channels 27,24,42,45,39,21 (Group 4/Channel 45 being the problem weak signal). The only other viable transmitter in the area I know of is Black Hill (and in fact a...
    7. Tim Day

      Pixelation on HD viewing and recording

      Took a closer look at the signal strengths on the hummy "manual tune" page, by channel: 21: 36/100 signal strength/quality (this is the HD one) 24: 35/100 27: 46/100 39: 33/100 42: 28/100 45: 10/40 (pixelation! sound glitches!) though arguably not much loss; this one carries a total bunch of...
    8. Tim Day

      HDD Test behaviour ? (Error code 5 before and after reformat)

      Humax support confirmed error 5 is basically hard drive hardware failure... another return. Interestingly they gave me the option of a drive swap, or a replacement unit. (My instinct was "better the devil you know..." and just get the drive fixed. But thinking about it... what if the drive...
    9. Tim Day

      Pixelation on HD viewing and recording

      I had some recent problems like this (poor quality, low signal at random but happening every few minutes). Plugging the coax into the TV (bypassing the hummy loop-through) and seeing the same problem there ruled out it being a hummy specific problem. After much prodding of the coax, it seems...
    10. Tim Day

      Humax Faults v. Serial Number

      Back around February-March 2012 I sent back a HDR-FOXT2-1TB serial number 63710449600390 complaining of general flakiness (the unit would just crash a couple of times a week or so, typically being found to be completely unresponsive with failed expected recording). This unit was itself a...
    11. Tim Day

      HDD Test behaviour ? (Error code 5 before and after reformat)

      Thanks for confirming that. Will be call humax tomorrow or Monday... sheesh, this will be our 3rd return in 17 months if this is another dud. (Thankfully still in 2 year warranty).
    12. Tim Day

      Humax HDR-FOX T2 and JVC TV

      FWIW, I've given up using HDMI to connect our hummy (HDR Fox T2, 1.02.28) to our Toshiba Regza 26C3030... the hummy seemed to hang up fairly frequently (every few days). Switched to RGB SCART instead as an experiment and have had no hummy crashes in the months since. Of course it makes any...
    13. Tim Day

      HDD Test behaviour ? (Error code 5 before and after reformat)

      So my hummy (stock 1.02.28) started showing all the signs of file system corruption or drive failure: recent recordings not playable/truncated (older stuff ok), noisy drive while recording - (I'm pretty sure what triggered it was a foolish switching the hummy off with the remote, then almost...
    14. Tim Day

      Humax Faults v. Serial Number

      In mid-September 2011 I sent back an HDR-FOXT2-1TB (purchased humax direct ~February 2011), serial number 63710449600761, which had some fairly obviously hard drive related problems. (Apart from that it seemed fine).
    15. Tim Day

      Splash Screen of Doom

      I have also seen the "won't come out of standby" problem several times. When we got the unit (which was itself a warranty replacement for a failing disk) it was doing it very frequently but Humax support said do a factory reset and that knocked it back to maybe once a month or so. I then mainly...
    16. Tim Day

      What can you do with Cron daemon

      It's worth distinguishing between cron and anacron. anacron is particularly useful on systems which aren't on 24/7 where you have tasks you want to schedule daily/weekly/monthly but trying to pick an hour of the day when the machine will definitely be on isn't possible. cron will just miss the...
    17. Tim Day

      Using 'puter as server and Hummy as client

      I did briefly fire up a MediaTomb UPnP server on a Linux box (Debian) and the hummy seemed to see and be able to play whatever it had to offer quite happily (well, with the exception of some of the more peculiar format video files). A Linux/Mac/BSD-world solution only. Not really what I got...
    18. Tim Day

      Unresponsive crashed hummy - common occurrence ? Any likely causes ?

      Called Humax support this morning and they told me to do a factory reset. Done (without the HD format!); we'll see if it makes any difference to stability over the next few days. (I have my doubts; presumably they tell everyone to try this first). [We got the (first) Humax back in Feb after our...
    19. Tim Day

      Unresponsive crashed hummy - common occurrence ? Any likely causes ?

      Arrgh! 2 more occurrences of "dead-box until power cycled" since I posted that. (Dead includes not responding to pings or FTP but that doesn't mean much with the power-saving enabled.) Will be calling support again on Monday.
    20. Tim Day

      Unresponsive crashed hummy - common occurrence ? Any likely causes ?

      A few weeks ago we received a warrany replacement from Humax following what appeared to be disk problems with the original box. Unfortunately the new box doesn't seem to be as problem free as we'd like... on 4 occasions now I've gone to switch it on with the remote and found it completely...
    1. Tim Day

      EPG awful

      Yup! That was news to me! Thanks! V.useful! I did know about the favourites list mentioned by BH, but never really tried setting it up sensibly and using it in anger. In conjunction with the above it suddenly becomes a whole load more attractive.
    2. Tim Day

      EPG awful

      I'm another toppy-to-hummy switcher of a few years ago. And I also remember the single biggest "culture shock" being the EPG. I still think the toppy was better for quickly zooming through everything a single channel had to offer for several days into the future; the hummy takes too long to go...
    3. Tim Day

      HDR FOX T2 - does the tuner fall over at low temperatures?

      I'm late to this thread, by my dampness and reception story is: After some winter storms and a run of persistently wet weather our signal strength and quality on some channels seemed to be declining. Eventually I went up on the roof to see if the aerial was falling down. It wasn't, but a...
    4. Tim Day

      About to order but is 1TB model still having "issues"

      Maybe we've just been unlucky, but I've had 3 returns since we first bought the thing (1TB model). The first return was a definite disk fail. Swapped under warranty. The second one we weren't sure what was going on but the box was crashing a lot. Swapped under warranty replacement promptly...
    5. Tim Day

      Youtube not working

      Just a "me too" on the Hummy YouTube portal "Temporary error - please try again" error. (I haven't tried YouTube in months, but had a few longer things to watch so thought I'd watch them on the TV. Disappointing). Just running stock firmware, whatever the latest one is.
    6. Tim Day

      Pixelation on HD viewing and recording

      I did wonder about that. We get our signal from Craigkelly which according to http://www.tvretune.co.uk/ has Groups 1-5+HD on channels 27,24,42,45,39,21 (Group 4/Channel 45 being the problem weak signal). The only other viable transmitter in the area I know of is Black Hill (and in fact a...
    7. Tim Day

      Pixelation on HD viewing and recording

      Took a closer look at the signal strengths on the hummy "manual tune" page, by channel: 21: 36/100 signal strength/quality (this is the HD one) 24: 35/100 27: 46/100 39: 33/100 42: 28/100 45: 10/40 (pixelation! sound glitches!) though arguably not much loss; this one carries a total bunch of...
    8. Tim Day

      HDD Test behaviour ? (Error code 5 before and after reformat)

      Humax support confirmed error 5 is basically hard drive hardware failure... another return. Interestingly they gave me the option of a drive swap, or a replacement unit. (My instinct was "better the devil you know..." and just get the drive fixed. But thinking about it... what if the drive...
    9. Tim Day

      Pixelation on HD viewing and recording

      I had some recent problems like this (poor quality, low signal at random but happening every few minutes). Plugging the coax into the TV (bypassing the hummy loop-through) and seeing the same problem there ruled out it being a hummy specific problem. After much prodding of the coax, it seems...
    10. Tim Day

      Humax Faults v. Serial Number

      Back around February-March 2012 I sent back a HDR-FOXT2-1TB serial number 63710449600390 complaining of general flakiness (the unit would just crash a couple of times a week or so, typically being found to be completely unresponsive with failed expected recording). This unit was itself a...
    11. Tim Day

      HDD Test behaviour ? (Error code 5 before and after reformat)

      Thanks for confirming that. Will be call humax tomorrow or Monday... sheesh, this will be our 3rd return in 17 months if this is another dud. (Thankfully still in 2 year warranty).
    12. Tim Day

      Humax HDR-FOX T2 and JVC TV

      FWIW, I've given up using HDMI to connect our hummy (HDR Fox T2, 1.02.28) to our Toshiba Regza 26C3030... the hummy seemed to hang up fairly frequently (every few days). Switched to RGB SCART instead as an experiment and have had no hummy crashes in the months since. Of course it makes any...
    13. Tim Day

      HDD Test behaviour ? (Error code 5 before and after reformat)

      So my hummy (stock 1.02.28) started showing all the signs of file system corruption or drive failure: recent recordings not playable/truncated (older stuff ok), noisy drive while recording - (I'm pretty sure what triggered it was a foolish switching the hummy off with the remote, then almost...
    14. Tim Day

      Humax Faults v. Serial Number

      In mid-September 2011 I sent back an HDR-FOXT2-1TB (purchased humax direct ~February 2011), serial number 63710449600761, which had some fairly obviously hard drive related problems. (Apart from that it seemed fine).
    15. Tim Day

      Splash Screen of Doom

      I have also seen the "won't come out of standby" problem several times. When we got the unit (which was itself a warranty replacement for a failing disk) it was doing it very frequently but Humax support said do a factory reset and that knocked it back to maybe once a month or so. I then mainly...
    16. Tim Day

      What can you do with Cron daemon

      It's worth distinguishing between cron and anacron. anacron is particularly useful on systems which aren't on 24/7 where you have tasks you want to schedule daily/weekly/monthly but trying to pick an hour of the day when the machine will definitely be on isn't possible. cron will just miss the...
    17. Tim Day

      Using 'puter as server and Hummy as client

      I did briefly fire up a MediaTomb UPnP server on a Linux box (Debian) and the hummy seemed to see and be able to play whatever it had to offer quite happily (well, with the exception of some of the more peculiar format video files). A Linux/Mac/BSD-world solution only. Not really what I got...
    18. Tim Day

      Unresponsive crashed hummy - common occurrence ? Any likely causes ?

      Called Humax support this morning and they told me to do a factory reset. Done (without the HD format!); we'll see if it makes any difference to stability over the next few days. (I have my doubts; presumably they tell everyone to try this first). [We got the (first) Humax back in Feb after our...
    19. Tim Day

      Unresponsive crashed hummy - common occurrence ? Any likely causes ?

      Arrgh! 2 more occurrences of "dead-box until power cycled" since I posted that. (Dead includes not responding to pings or FTP but that doesn't mean much with the power-saving enabled.) Will be calling support again on Monday.
    20. Tim Day

      Unresponsive crashed hummy - common occurrence ? Any likely causes ?

      A few weeks ago we received a warrany replacement from Humax following what appeared to be disk problems with the original box. Unfortunately the new box doesn't seem to be as problem free as we'd like... on 4 occasions now I've gone to switch it on with the remote and found it completely...
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