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You have given a perfect description of the progress of file system corruption. The fix is to format the drive from the HDD Control menu item in the record menu. If you want to recover the programs the it can be done if you are prepared to open the Humax, connect the drive to a PC and use humaxrw in recovery mode (-r option).
Neil Spencer – 1 hour ago »
A block of 4 recently recorded programs on my 9150T will not play and jams the PVR when attempting to play them. I then have to restart the PVR.
Best guess is that the file system has developed some corruption. The simplest solution is to watch any important recordings and then format the hard drive.
I really want to keep the 4 programs if they have been recorded so am reluctant to delete them if they can be resurrected. Any ideas?
If you really want to try and recover these recordings then you could open the Humax, remove the hard drive and attach it to a PC and use humaxcheck, humaxdiag and humaxrw to investigate the problem and copy off any important recordings before formatting.
My impression is that things are getting better but not perfect yet. My main metric is the news on BBC One at 1 o’clock followed by the regional news. Today the main news started correctly and the regional news finished correctly but the transition from main news to regional news was still wrong by about 3 minutes where before these problems it was usually within a few seconds of the actual transition.
giverny – 14 minutes ago »
Is there a problem at the moment with BBC
This seems to be a transmission problem rather than the Humax box.
Yes there is an ongoing problem being discussed at https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/bbc-one-news-accurate-recording-problems
Most plausible explanation is a technical issue with a new playout system breaking accurate recording until the problem is fixed.
micmac – 2 hours ago »
I have padding on front and end of each recording and so there can be quite an overlap.
Generally speaking using padding causes more problems than it solves. However at the moment BBC seem to have an ongoing problem with accurate recording so now probably isn’t the time to start experimenting.
SF54 – 2 hours ago »
Been building PCs for decades so am au fait with disk sizing etc. I guess I better look at disk replacement posts now!
If you are familiar with buildings PCs and the Humax is out of warranty then I would suggest opening the Humax, temporarily removing the drive and connecting it to a PC and looking at the SMART data to see what that says about the health of the drive; happy to help if you are not familiar with interpreting SMART data.
Marius – 1 hour ago »
Given all that I think the 5000T is excellent value for money, and if I’d be even happier with a higher-specced machine that cost considerably more, I can see that I’m probably in a minority and that such a product would make no commercial sense for Humax, given the small size of the UK’s PVR market.
I think there is a general view that the main negative point for the FVP-5000T is that the user interface could be more responsive. Maybe Humax can get a bit more performance by tweaking the software. I assume they know where the bottleneck is (I would speculate it could be RAM, CPU or graphics hardware) and future models will have components specified to give a more responsive UI.
davidrew – 1 hour ago »
A survey on the 5000T of all the RF channels returns 100% quality on all of them and the following strengths:
31: 88
37: 87
50: 88
53+: 89
55: 79
57: 91
59-: 83
60-: 84
I am new to Freeview, as a recent defector from Freesat, so I don’t know if that is good or bad. I did read another article saying anything above 75% signal strength can be too much for some tuner equipment to handle, so I don’t know if that is the problem, but there are no warnings in the 5000T manual about too much signal.
You certainly have adequate signal strength. If anything it is a bit high but I wouldn’t expect it to be a problem.
SF54 – 1 hour ago »
I formatted the disk and got weird numbers like reserved storage of over 400,000,000GB and available space over 3TB despite recognising that it has a 1TB disk fitted. Latest format has produced more sensible numbers but still has reserved storage of 114GB.
Does anyone know if there is a known fault with the reserved storage function?
It has never been reported before so I think the answer is there is no known fault. Usually weird numbers such as you are seeing are more likely to be a results of the hard drive failing.
What function sets the reserved storage, is it series recording?
Reserved space is made up of the space allocated for the time shift buffer, the space allocated for IPlayer streaming, the 5% of disk capacity that Linux reserves for the root user (which is a nonsense in this case as the Humax software runs as root) and a correction number to account for the fact that hard drives are sized in GB not GiB.
Thanks. I think that is a helpful description. Regarding the comment about needing a . in front of the humaxrw command, I think that is necessary with Powershell (which is default on Windows 10) but not with command prompt.
Rick O – 4 hours ago »
NO!
If you can’t see the recordings with the drive in the Humax and you can’t see the recordings in recovery mode with humaxrw then I am sorry to say that you will have to accept that the recordings are lost.
terrym15 – 19 minutes ago »
Tried to put in a 192.168.0.1 but would not let me do it.
192.0.2.100 is an odd IP address as it is officially reserved for test and documentation purposes. Do you have a PC on the network and if so what operating system is it running? How is the Humax connected to the router (WiFi, network cable, homeplugs etc)?
terrym15 – 49 minutes ago »
Yes Martin all my other devices are working correctly, which makes me think the box is at fault, have tried to put in different gateway code but to no affect.
What details did you put in?
terrym15 – 1 hour ago »
Tried all of your suggestions but no change, tried ringing Humax but no response from them as yet.
Can other devices on your network access the Internet?
