AlanH – 1 hour ago  » 

Is there any way to transfer files from a 9150 to other medium….digital or CD?

Yes. Either you can take out the hard drive and connect it to a PC and use humaxrw to transfer the files to the PC; this will give the best quality. They can be played from the PC or copied to any storage medium that takes your fancy (you only need the .ts file). Alternatively you could feed the input to a DVD recorder (or a PC with a USB video capture device attached via the S-video leads) and play them back and record them.

GrahamRHK – 1 hour ago  » 

Watching offline may be not possible as we have discovered but at least you won’t have lost anything,

But it works for me. How are you looking at the file system on the USB drive?

Sue343 – 1 hour ago  » 

It seems a bit like a spontaneous reboot for no reason, but I have not had any yet when actually watching.

What you call a spontaneous reboot is the Humax software crashing and then restarting. It happens very occasionally in all PVRs and there is very little the user can do other than complain to Humax.

bignick58 – 11 mins ago  » 

My PVR seems to have lost all the stored recordings but still shows ~75% disc space used. From other searches it would seem this is not that uncommon but I couldn’t actually find out much about it.

You are correct, this is a well known problem. The file system has become corrupted.

The one thread I read was talking about linking up the PVR hard disc to a computer but it didn’t seem like something I’d want to try.

It of course depends on how important the recordings are to you.

Is there a ‘simple’ way to recover lost recordings?

Sorry but no.

It seems a little like formatting an SD card, you really only wipe the index – the data is still on the card??

Absolutely correct.

ps – It has retained the scheduled recordings and records and plays back ok.

You really don’t want to be recording anything with the file system broken. It will reduce the chances of restoring the lost content.

Basically you have two options. Accept the content is lost and format the hard drive from the HDD Control menu item in the Record menu.

Or buy a SATA to USB adapter (NB if you go this route be careful to buy an adapter designed for use with a 3.5″ drive, the cheaper ones designed for 2.5″ drives won’t work as they lack a 12V supply), open the Humax, remove the hard drive and connect it to a computer and use the free humaxrw utility (running in recovery mode) to get off the content. A useful thread is https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/restoring-recordings-and-list-to-humax-pvr-9200t

REPASSAC – 36 mins ago  » 

Unless you are running your own DNS – I do not believe the values are what they should be.

Suggest you reboot your router and when this is complete reboot your PVR and recheck these settings. If they are the same check your routers DHCP settings.

Absolutely agree with everything you have said.

@pamandphil – 2 hours ago  » 

Three days ago it happened for the first time on my FVP-5000T, seven minutes into a recording. There was no “loss of power” anywhere else in the house. Is this a problem with the hardware or with the software?

I would guess it is a software issue possibly caused by a momentary glitch in reception.

GrahamRHK – 1 hour ago  » 

Draytek routers use an operating system called DrayOS (proprietary). Of course that may well be based on one of the free UNIX based distributions – I don’t know. All I can say is that the early versions of Draytek 2760 had a rewritten OS based on LINUX; which was replaced in the product cycle with DrayOS. I believe all Draytek routers now use DrayOS.

OK I didn’t realise that Draytek had switched to a non Linux OS; please forgive my ignorance.

Thanks for your interest in this problem.

My interest in the problem is because I have always used OpenDNS for DNS and suffer none of the problems reported by people using their router to supply DNS and wonder why. I have had problems with ISP DNS and with Google DNS (not related to PVRs) but over several years I have had no issues with OpenDNS (but I suspect other DNS services would also work well). I agree with you that the problem is likely to be somehow related to the networking interaction between the Humax and the router. I have seen people who know way more than me about networking say unpleasant things about dnsmasq. Is there a networking professional on the Forum?

GrahamRHK – 2 hours ago  » 

I have seen this with my old (and early) Draytek 2760 which was built with LINUX firmware, now discontinued.

I would expect that most routers use Linux based software; do you believe otherwise?

The question now is why, with DNS set as router address, the router DNS cache loses the correct IP addresses of external web sites (there are very many) that are needed for correct FVP operation. Either the DNS cache gets corrupted or (and this occurred to me in the small hours) the external sites change their addresses and the DNS cache doesn’t get updated.

I think most routers are using dnsasq to achieve this. You might want to work through the changelog for dnsmasq and see if you can spot something; I bet a lot of routers are using old versions; see http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html

The simple resolution would be to allow fixed IP addresses for FVP and DNS servers (non DHCP) – which one can do with a wired connection but not for a wireless connection. That is something for HUMAX to address possibly.

I have this nagging feeling that Barry posted a method to enable a fixed IP address to be set for a wireless connection but not sure if it was for an FVP or one of the other Humax boxes. Can anybody confirm my vague recollection?