Hi,
we’ve just got a Humax box that we love, but we’re having some problems with the quality of the Freeview aerial feed. Even with a lot of faffing about and purchasing/moving various aerials, some of the channels, and hence the recording pixilate quite badly.
So, Freeview have an app that can pick up Freeview channels over the internet, with much more consistent quality. So the question is, can you connect up the Humax box so that it picks up its Freeview feed from the internet rather than from an aerial.
Any info gratefully received.
Which Humax box have you just bought?
If you take the aerial out from the Humax and plug it directly in to the TV is the picture pixellated.
Put the aerial back in the Humax and the aerial loop back into the TV.
Now check the Signal Strength through the Settings on the Humax, try it over several channels.
If you get a Signal Strength of 100% this could be the problem, too strong a signal can cause pixellation and drop outs.
Ideal Signal Strength should be between 75%- 95%.
The answer to that would be to buy a variable attenuator, can be bought cheap on Amazon.
You would use the attenuator to turn the Signal Strength down.
Picture Quality at 100% is perfect.
Also make sure that the HDMI cable does not touch the aerial cable in any way as this can cause interference to the signal.
When setting up the Humax did you use the Auto Tune function, if so this can cause the box to tune in to one or more transmitters
that may be broadcasting in your area. This can lead to duplicate channels, check in the 800s of the programme guide to see if there are duplicate channels.
If you do have duplicate channels then the weaker signals may have been allocated to the lowered numbered areas of the programme guide.
To make sure you are tune in to the nearest transmitter or the best with line of sight to your aerial you can perform manual search using the multiplex numbers for that transmitter only.
To find out which transmitters are broadcasting in your are click on the link below and enter your postcode and house number.
If you're an industry professional, use this tool to check local DTT transmitter coverage and UHF channel allocation for an address.
www.freeview.co.uk
On the next page you will see a table titled Digital Transmitters.
This shows you the transmitters broadcasting in your area with the 'most likely' on top.
If you have good line of sight to that 'most likely' transmitter then use that one or if not select one of the others which you have line of sight to.
Once you have selected which transmitter you want to tune to make a note of the multiplex (mux) numbers the transmitter is broadcasting on.
The mux numbers are under the white N in the black circle.
Pay special attention to the mux number under BBC B, this is the mux that carries all the HD channels/ programmes.
Now you have noted the mux numbers and the HD mux number you are ready to manually tune your Humax.
First take the aerial out of the Humax. Go to Auto Channel Search and start the search, this will clear the Humax ready for the manual tune.
Once that has done insert the aerial.
Go to Manual Search.
Tune the SD (standard definition) channels. first.
Enter the first of the mux numbers, make sure Transmission is set to DVB-T.
Press Search.
When done press Save.
Do this for all the SD muxes.
For the HD channels enter the mux number but change Transmission to DVB-T2.
Press Search and when done press Save.
Having done that you can now check if manually tuning the box has helped resolve the pixellation issues.
If not you may have to select another transmitter and re do the above steps.
Are you using an external aerial or an indoor?
