Ch5 always starts 5 min late, never has synopsis, and doesn't show the red "To be recorded" icon.

[meadfoot]

Channel 5 recordings always miss the first 5 minutes and never show the synopsis. This is occuring on both our FVT-5000Ts and on HD and SD as well. All other channels are OK and work/display as they should.

I thought I had fixed it by deleting the channels on each mux on each box and retuning the relevant muxes. ( PSB2/46 and PSB3/40 on Sutton Coldfield ) and for the last two weeks it worked but today the problem started again.

And of course by deleting channels you lose all your timers.

Has anyone ever had a similar problem?

Regards, Rog

 

[Black Hole]

There's a lot of talk about C5 issues in the Aura section currently. I guess it's a general problem not specific to you, caused by bad data in the broadcast stream.

https://hummy.tv/forum/threads/aura-failing-to-record-channel-5-hd.11816/

 

[EEPhil]

Given the problems reported for the Aura and C5, I've been testing both an Aura and a 5000T with recordings. I've switched the 5000T to accurate recordings. I can see no problems with recordings on 5 and there is no lack of synopsis for the recorded programmes. At the time of checking (about 08:30) todays episodes in a series are NOT showing a synopsis. When I brought the 5000T out of standby the EPG looked full. Suddenly after changing from BBC1 to C5 many channels reverted to Now/Next only - including some BBC ones. The EPG repopulated slowly. Test: A couple of children's programmes (short!) seem to have recorded properly on C5 and C5HD. This is for the Waltham-on-the-Wolds transmitter.

I usually get my Humaxes to automatically come out of standby onto BBC1 early in the morning for a while in an attempt to keep the EPG populated. The 5000T usually turns itself off (2 hours idle?). That has usually worked for me.