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Humax Aura recording failed

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Profpriv61

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My Humax aura frequently fails to record programmes with the message being displayed 'recording failed due to lack of signal.

This is particularly wierd as I was watching the beginning of the programme via live tv (through the Aura box)

Can anyone help?
 
Profpriv61 said:
Can anyone help?
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Not easily based on the available information.

As a starting point:
  • Which channel(s) fail?
  • Which transmitter do you think you are receiving signals from?
  • What is the signal strength/quality of the channels you are trying to record?
  • Do you have duplicates of these channels somewhere above LCN* 800? (* Logical Channel Number - the number you use eg. 1,101,2,3 etc)
  • If you have duplicates what is the signal strength/quality of those channels?
 
Profpriv61 said:
Can anyone help?
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Also:
  • Has your Aura always been like this?
  • Did it start to misbehave fairly soon after a retune?
  • Please clarify "watching the beginning of the programme via live tv". Was that using the TV's tuner, or the Aura tuner with the TV displaying the feed via the HDMI?
 
Luke said:
Please clarify "watching the beginning of the programme via live tv". Was that using the TV's tuner, or the Aura tuner with the TV displaying the feed via the HDMI?
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I ruled that out because:
Profpriv61 said:
I was watching the beginning of the programme via live tv (through the Aura box)
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Worth [the OP]* checking!
(* Inserted because of the ambiguity in my reply - could have looked as though I was encouraging Luke to check - I wasn't!)
 
I get this happening from time to time with no obvious pattern suggesting a certain channel, time or mux and happens with both a roof aerial and a loft aerial. I had it happen to a new skymix serial record yesterday afternoon that recorded the skymix show than was on just before it without issue, I have both set for today and the first is happily recording and will see at 5pm if the second fails again. Off subject but I had a new piece of weirdness on Channel4+1 a couple of nights ago, a show I recorded repeatedly went to a black screen for a couple of seconds without sound every 5 or so minutes for the first half hour of the recording but unlike the other past black screen events that have plagued the Aura this time the 4+1 logo could still be seen on the black screen.
 
I left the Aura on channel5 as it was yesterday but both serial recordings have worked today, again no apparent reason for it.
 
EEPhil said:
Obviously some fault at the playout centre - the link between the time-delay device and the output lost for some reason.
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I agree, it was just something I had not seen before. On a side note I had another failed lack of signal series record yesterday evening on Blaze, it was also the first episode to be recorded since setting the series record.
 
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