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Just a few comments on Graham’s answers:
4 You have to copy the recordings to a USB drive for the encryption to be removed.
5 FTP can be enabled but only shows the recorded programs partition.
6 You can also update the HDR-2000 over the Internet.
10 No ITV Player as far as I know.
Feeline – 1 hour ago »
Any further suggestions from anyone out there most welcome.
Have a very careful look at the aerial cable (or try another one) to be certain that it isn’t faulty.
Hugh Janus – 16 minutes ago »
Following the last software update, it now requires up to ten presses of the guide button on the remote control to bring it up onto the screen.
Does the LED on the remote flash every time the Guide button is pressed?
Feeline – 12 hours ago »
I’m posting for my sister whose Hummy has suddenly lost the aerial signal on all channels and the EPG is empty.
I would start by doing a reset to default settings.
colirv – 28 minutes ago »
Out of interest, would backing up recordings work as an alternative to watching them?
You are right of course. I guess you could FTP them from the box and then put them back after the format or the slower route of copying to an attached USB storage device. The encryption keys are not linked to the hard drive.
divad – 1 hour ago »
Any fixes ? Normal recording is ok
The easy fix would be to watch any important recordings then format the disk. The complicated fix would be to take the drive out of the Humax, attach it to a PC running Linux (eg from a live boot CD) and run e2fsck.
jonnno – 22 minutes ago »
Is it possible to repair a tuner or is it part of the mainboard in the system?
It is attached to the mainboard. I don’t recollect anybody reporting a successful repair to a tuner.
combwork – 59 minutes ago »
Is it possible to use the USB socket to save a film that’s been stored on a memory stick?
You might start by telling us which model of Humax you have. Assuming it is a 9200/9150/9300 then I suspect the answer is no,
fozzie bear – 1 hour ago »
I emailed Humax technical support and as I suspected they said it was likely a hard drive failure.
I assume that actually formatting the drive achieves nothing? If that is the case then I agree this is a classic case of hard drive failure.
1) Is the internal drive EIDE or SATA. If the latter is it SATA I or II (probably to old to be III).
2) If SATA I will the later vII or vIII drives work OK or is the 9300T finicky about drives? If not I was considering the WD Red drives which are designed for 24 x 7 operation.
The drive is a 3.5″ SATA II drive. You would do better to consider a drive specifically designed for PVR usage. This is one drive that is suitable Link to EBuyer
3) I assume the OS on these boxes is some sort of Linux distro. Is the OS actually on the drive or held in NVram?
The OS has nothing to do with Linux. It is held in NVRAM.
4) Can the system format a new unpartitioned drive
Yes. Fit the new drive, power the box up, it will notice the new drive and offer to format it; less than five seconds later the job will be done.
5) I have read on these forums about a command line utility which can run on Windows to copy recordings but ideally unless the drive is completely shot would like to copy them to the new drive. Is this fairly easy to do from a Linux live CD?
There is a utility humaxrw that comes in Windows and Linux flavours. It will certainly allow you to copy off material if the drive is not completely dead. There have been some reports of people copying back to a 9300 but more reports that it doesn’t work. I know for certain that it does work for a 9200 but can’t guarantee anything for a 9300. Humaxrw is straightforward to use if you are used to command line programs.
You seem to have done the obvious things although I can’t understand why the attenuators didn’t change the signal strength. How far from the Crystal Palace transmitter is your Nan’s flat. My only other suggestion is that the hard drive is on its way out. They are straightforward to change if necessary.
Southern Blue – 3 hours ago »
1. Most (but not all)recordings fail with an error message “unable to track programme” – this seems to occur across a range of channels
Can you make an instant recording?
3. When reviewing recorded programmes I press “menu” and then select “video” in the usual way and then get an on screen message “processing”. Usually this disappears after a few seconds and I see my list of folders and recorded programmes but instead now ,on occasions, the “processing” message just remains on screen indefinitely and the box hangs.
That sounds like a file system/hard drive problem; hard to say which without any diagnostic information.
Have also done a full automatic station search.
A manual tune would be better see Link to manual tuning FAQ My suggestion would be to install the custom firmware. This will have two benefits: it will allow access to the diagnostic information that the hard drive holds on its own health (SMART data) and it will provide a tool called fix-disk to try and correct file system problems.
grumpydew – 9 minutes ago »
High can anyone advise me how to transfer from my hard drive to a lap top DVD please.
Is this SD or HD content? SD can be copied to a USB memory stick plugged into the Humax (which will remove the encryption) and then plugged into the PC.
geoffers – 12 minutes ago »
Hi – anyone had any success with streaming from the PVR to an Android device: according to research it should be possible using ES File Explorer to pickup the Hummy Media Server and MX Player to play
Are you sure that MX Player can browse for files via DLNa? The following link seems to suggests not Link to MX Player FAQ
juliang – 11 minutes ago »
I left device in dim red connected via cable to router overnight and now have 1.0006 dated 16 Aug!
I hope you mean 1.01.06?
Einstein40 – 21 minutes ago »
Don’t have a wi-fi dongle so as Martin suggests I assume I can simply take the unit to my router and plug in the Ethernet cable and let it do its stuff?
Yes that should work.
