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Jampit – 1 hour ago »
I have been having crashes and reboots (only)recently. Having done a factory reset, things have been worse- reboot every 20 minutes or so! As all the other comments are a year old, I assume it can’t be a software update? Any ideas?
Is the Humax connected to the Internet; if so does removing the connection make the box stable?
3guesses – 1 hour ago »
I also have a PVR-9150T which suffers the same problem but much less frequently – it has a 320GB HDD, and I think it is the one that was originally in the PVR-9300T. I’d be surprised if this problem were due to running out of spare sectors given that the drive is way less than 50% full?
No you misunderstand; the spare sectors are not part of the file system but only accessible by the hard drive controller which will map out potentially problematic sectors and replace them with sectors from the pool of spares. If you can connect the drive to a PC and post the SMART data here we will have a better idea of what is going on.
I also suffer (standard?) file-system corruption problems on my PVR9200Ts from time to time, but nothing like this which surprises me as I would have thought this family of machines share a fairly common code base for their respective software.
The file system is a bit flakey on the 9xxx series machines and a problem every couple of years is not unusual but a problem very soon after formatting usually points at a hard drive on its way out.
BTW what are these known problems with the PVR-9300T?
The two problems that come up frequently are the recording schedule getting lost when the box is in standby when the box is a few years old (I would guess NVRAM problem) and certain series of programs having play back problems eg skipping (I would guess a software bug in the firmware of the hardware that does the decoding).
3guesses – 37 minutes ago »
Has anybody else come across this problem before, or have an idea what is causing it/how to sort it out?
The file system is getting corrupted. Best guess at the reason would be that the hard drive has used up its supply of spare sectors. I think your options are to try and revive the hard drive, buy a new hard drive or buy a new recorder. To try and coax a bit of life out of the hard drive you could remove it from the Humax and connect it to a PC and run the hard drive manufacturers diagnostics on it. If it was me, given the known problems with the 9300T, I would be considering a replacement ecorder and definitely not another 9300T.
Barry – 29 minutes ago »
I recorded local news as well
According to my recordings some 3 mins 50 seconds lost.
Thanks Barry and Graham, I saw exactly the same; the mains news was exactly 30 minutes and the last three minutes were tacked on to the regional news. So this isn’t a problem on a single region. Can someone suggest the best point of contact for me to report this to the BBC?
sceedy – 2 hours ago »
The other 2 asked if I wanted to format but ended up with 140GB of usable space.
There is a finite disk size limit for the 9200T and I think it is about 500GB so if you only ended up with 140GB from a 1TB drive something is wrong and my best guess would be the ATA to SATA adapter? What type is it please?
I certainly would not advise you to spend money on an SSD drive for a 9200T. You won’t get any speed benefit and the life will be finite. More importantly there are much better Humax boxes than the 9200T which these days struggles with insufficient RAM if tuned to a full set of multiplexes. Get a secondhand HDR-FOX T2 which is a much more competent PVR.
Aiboman – 3 hours ago »
just want to say I followed the instructions in your link and everything is now working perfectly
Good, thanks for letting us know.
bagaceratops – 5 hours ago »
I think I will return the box then and pick up a second hand HDR-T2 and run custom firmware.
Yes that is a perfectly valid approach. Of course the problem is finding a good one; there are a slowly increasing number of reports of HDR-FOX T2s with obscure hardware faults.
bagaceratops – 39 minutes ago »
I cant do this anylonger with HD.
Any solutions to this?
It is a restriction imposed by the broadcasters rather than Humax. For the FVP-5000T the only workaround is the rather obvious one of recording material that needs to be played on other devices in SD only.
sceedy – 51 minutes ago »
I joined this forum to be able to download this update as I do not believe there is going to be an over the air update in 2018.
Have you found the 1.00.23 software? If not send me a Private message and I will send you a Dropbox link to download it.
Jack333 – 1 hour ago »
After having problems with my 9300T recordings like picture jumping and sound missing I fitted a new hard drive. All went well and now building up library of programmes to watch later. Now I’ve started watching recordings I’m having the same problem with some programmes. At points during playback there can be a slight jump in recording and then sometimes the sound is not there.
Are these problems on specific series of programs? There is (another) well known problem with the 9300T that on specific programs you get exactly the symptoms you describe. My theory is that the programs in question are using a type of encoding that was not common when the box was launched and as Humax have been aware of this problem for a long time and have not issued a fix, I speculate that the problem is in the chip that does the decoding. As far as I know only the 9150T and the 9300T are the only Humax boxes affected.
This link tells you how to enable DLNA in Plex on the WD My Cloud Home https://support.wdc.com/knowledgebase/answer.aspx?ID=18937#topic5
Aiboman – 1 hour ago »
Will have a look at Plex then although I read that Humax does not support Plex so ignored Plex , I’ve installed the service onto my WD box and I now have a Plex folder on my drive but nothing shows up still in my Media Share section of the Freesat box well apart from my computers and Sonos speaker system etc
So have you enabled the DLNA service in Plex as per the instructions in the link in my previous post?
Aiboman – 59 minutes ago »
No there is nothing that mentions Media in my settings , the only thing that mentions anything to do with streaming is I have a Plex service I can add that is listed in the services menu
If the Plex service is the Plex media server then that should function as a DLNA server; see https://support.plex.tv/articles/200350536-dlna/
fortuner – 50 minutes ago »
My FOXSAT-HDR has started doing exactly the same thing! 😡
You have posted the question in the wrong section of the Forum; this is the section for Freeview FVP-4000T/FVP-5000T.
Admin Edit: As this thread is now covering both freeview and freesat have moved to broadcast forum.
Aiboman – 2 hours ago »
I’ve looked in the My Cloud settings I have available to me and cannot see any mention of DLNA
Under settings do you have a “Media” entry? That should be where you control the DLNA server.
