Humax FHR-6000T Will this need its own listing in the forum? ( Now named the Aura EZ 4K Freely Recorder)

Immediate said:
The only way to set recordings seems to be through the ‘Recording Guide’ which is crude in the extreme. I can’t find a sensible way to navigate it as you can’t select a channel by inputting its number, you can’t go to a specific day or date, you can’t jump forward or backwards by days or in two-hour increments. If I want to check a week ahead I have to sit with my finger on the remote while the guide moves on programme by programme.
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I wonder if this is the same problem as:
StvJam said:
For instance if using search you find a programme you want to record in 4 days time and press OK it won’t take you to it - just to whatever that channel is broadcasting at present. Then you have to skip forward through the guide. So I am hoping that gets updated
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Immediate said:
I appreciate the fault might well be mine as I can’t imagine that Humax, or any manufacturer, would implement something so desperately poor.
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If that is a similar problem, then it isn't just you. And yes, Humax might have implemented something so poor.
 
Immediate said:
This is my first post here so please forgive me if this has already been answered.

I have received a Humax FHR-6000T Freely PVR and have a few issue that someone might be able to help me with, please:
  • I can’t set any recordings from the Freely EPG. I would not expect to be able to record streaming channels, but I would have expected the ability to record Freeview channels delivered via the aerial;
  • The only way to set recordings seems to be through the ‘Recording Guide’ which is crude in the extreme. I can’t find a sensible way to navigate it as you can’t select a channel by inputting its number, you can’t go to a specific day or date, you can’t jump forward or backwards by days or in two-hour increments. If I want to check a week ahead I have to sit with my finger on the remote while the guide moves on programme by programme.
I appreciate the fault might well be mine as I can’t imagine that Humax, or any manufacturer, would implement something so desperately poor. Or perhaps it will be updated in a future software release. It’s good to have the extra tuners, but not at the cost of such inferior software. Perhaps someone could be kind enough to tell me where I am going wrong? Many thanks!
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  • I can’t set any recordings from the Freely EPG.......................................... Because it cannot record Freely channels
  • The only way to set recordings seems to be through the ‘Recording Guide’ which is crude in the extreme..................... Because it will be recording Freeview channels only. As EEPhil has pointed out it seems to be a sub par version of a Freeview guide than we have been used to on previous Freeview boxes.
  • Perhaps someone could be kind enough to tell me where I am going wrong?.............................. You bought a Humax Aura EZ and expected it not to be awful.


 
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Many thanks for the replies.

I completely accept that it can't record Freely channels, but I would have expected a recording option within the main EPG for those channels that are delivered via the antenna, ie not streamed. Instead, it appears that one has to use a separate EPG which is the crudest I have ever encountered. Really not viable. Unless I am missing something, but I am technically literate. Perhaps the Freely EPG doesn't permit a recording link even when integrated with a Freeview receiver that shows all channels, including those that are recordable?

I also have a Humax HDR-1100S 2TB from 2017 and a HDR-FOX T2 from 2010, both of which have perfectly useable EPG's. I can’t quite accept that Humax have now, sixteen years later, released something so fundamentally flawed. It feels as if Freeview, and recording, have been employed almost grudgingly.
 
If I was trying to implement the EZ I would provide an easy route to set a recording (from the aerial version of the channel, if available) from the Freely EPG. However, if the Freely "rules" state this cannot happen, I'd be stuffed. Then what could I do? Recording Guide?
 
That is very true, and I suspect that Freely rules might well be the issue. But if Humax was forced to provide a separate Recording Guide (EPG) for Freeview, surely they should have made a decent one. This is a real shocker!
 
EEPhil said:
I thought I'd read, on this site, where people had replaced the plug based transformer on some models because they thought/found that it was not supplying enough current. I could, as usual, be wrong!
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I believe you are right that you'd read it. I have to say I find it hard to believe without any proper measurements and wonder whether it is just a case of "the
emperor's new clothes".
 
prpr said:
I believe you are right that you'd read it. I have to say I find it hard to believe without any proper measurements and wonder whether it is just a case of "the
emperor's new clothes".
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At least I haven't totally lost the plot!:o_O:
 
Immediate said:
It feels as if Freeview, and recording, have been employed almost grudgingly.
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Of course they have, as this is what's on 'their' agenda. It's all designed to push you to the crappy Freely stuff and nobody will call it out for how dreadful it is compared to what we have now.
 
Immediate said:
That is very true, and I suspect that Freely rules might well be the issue. But if Humax was forced to provide a separate Recording Guide (EPG) for Freeview, surely they should have made a decent one. This is a real shocker!
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I don't suppose the "rules" would have allowed a device dually certified as Freely and Freeview. That would go against the aim to wean us off over-the-air broadcasts. But if you don't want OTA don't offer recordings. What a mess!
prpr said:
nobody will call it out for how dreadful it is compared to what we have now
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Unfortunately I have seen some people praise Freely. Maybe people with a vested interest.
 
Immediate said:
I can’t quite accept that Humax have now, sixteen years later, released something so fundamentally flawed. It feels as if Freeview, and recording, have been employed almost grudgingly.
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If you had added an Aura to your collection of Humax PVR's a couple of years ago you would have no problem now accepting what Humax has now released. I have a suspicion that Humax desperately hoped the addition of Freeview would give them an edge because they knew if it was just Freely their competitors products were going to be far superior and cheaper.
 
I didn't have a 9200T but I had a 9150T. The reason I moved up to a 2000T was not because the 9150T was broken, it was because the 2000T allowed me to archive recordings from the box to a PC. Then from PC to DVD. Then there were all the channels available on the temporary HiDef multiplexes which I couldn't view any other way. Moving on to where we are now - if we are going backwards to the 9150T state where archiving recordings isn't possible and the user interface is :poop: then what's the point? The EZ isn't the answer - not in the current incarnation.
 
I had a Humax 8000T which amply demonstrated the Humax lack of vision as it was not possible to watch a recording while it was still in progress - just like the VCR recorder which it replaced! 🙄
 
There was a fairly simple hardware mod for the 9200T involving piggy backing the HDD thus. enabling the file and sidecars to be copied via USB,.It was a bit slow but effective. I used this method for years. and only changed to the T2 when the CF with download capability became available,
 
BMAX said:
There was a fairly simple hardware mod for the 9200T involving piggy backing the HDD thus. enabling the file and sidecars to be copied via USB,.It was a bit slow but effective.
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I used to use it to record drama and comedy shows shows from R4. Great tool.
 
I think it was possible to piggyback the 9300/9150T but I never tried.
Being able to easily archive programmes (including radio) has been a deal breaker on updated models. If the EZ doesn't allow this it isn't fit for my needs.
 
EEPhil said:
I think it was possible to piggyback the 9300/9150T but I never tried.
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There was a piggyback board to give USB access to the hard disc on the Pace Twin too. I was using a pair of Pace Twins before I moved to the HDR Fox T2, though I never had the piggyback board.
 
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