boogersa – 13 mins ago  » 

Not sure if the 5000t did this and would correctly restart from the moment you exited.

Yes it does; It brings up a dialog allowing you to choose to continue watching from the point previously reached or from the beginning.

Peteh – 4 hours ago  » 

When the boxes are non responsive I can access the epg and highlight the programme I wish to record but when I press the ok button there is no response.

Thanks, I very occasionally see a slightly different problem when setting a recording where it will simply display the rotating disk icon signifying it is processing the request but never does. Your problem sounds different.

The box also refuses to respond to the red record now button. All other functions continue as normal. The blue led shows even when the box is on standby and the disc can be felt and heard spinning.

I assume Humax have suggested a reset to default settings? I don’t suppose you have auto on or off timers set do you? These are known to cause similar problems on earlier Humax models. Another possibility for the box not going fully to sleep could be corrupt recordings.

Signal strength is about 90% on BBC 1 80% Channel 5 without using the attenuation and I have reduced the strength to about 65% which maintains 100% quality and reduces the frequency of the problem occuring.

Exactly what I would have done.

larkim – 9 mins ago  » 

What an odd thing to code into it!

I wouldn’t be surprised if it is part of the Freeview Play specification.

Dave Dee – 3 mins ago  » 

Don’t have double shielded cables however apart from the cable inside the wall all coax was replaced with new rg6. what I do have is a variable attenuator and I will attach to reduce the siganal. what sort of signal strength am I aiming for here? I thought that 79-85% would have been low enough.

My advice is usually to get the maximum signal strength below 80% but the best thing to do is experiment.

Once i’ve done that if there is no improvement I will look at replacing the cables.

Have you checked that the aerial and the HDMI are well separated. I have to confess our HDR-2000T began to display these symptoms after a new carpet was fitted and it took me a while to realise that the carpet fitters had managed to tangle up my carefully separated cables. Separating them fixed the problem.

Dave Dee – 35 mins ago  » 

Signal strenth is 79-85% and quality is rock solid at 100%.

The signal strength isn’t outrageously high but it could be worth trying a variable attenuator in the aerial feed to the Humax to get the signal down a few percent. The other common cause of picture disturbances is if the aerial cable and HDMI cable are in close proximity; best practice is to keep them as far apart as possible and gold standard is to use proper double shielded cables.

hoe – 1 hour ago  » 

I have put back in the drive that I was having a problem with.

It’s a western digital 1TB WD10EVDS.

You might try the other drive just to check that fix-disk is working.

hoe – 1 hour ago  » 

documentation says to type in “fix-disk” but all I get is no “disk found”

What is the command please

Try

fix-disk /dev/sda

Do we know if Aura supports both MBR and GPT partitioning schemes?