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Shimmy – 6 mins ago »
Hi
I have a DTR2100 that’s been fine until it suddenly was unable to connect to the internet, I have done the Factory resets but it did not help.
I don’t know anything about the DTR2100 but it would be unusual for a network component to fail. Is this a wired connection or WiFi? Have you tried rebooting the router?
MIB – 2 hours ago »
Sorry for the silly question but my FVP 4000T PVR has just died on me after 4 years, so I wondered what is the usual life span for these machines? Has it been a good run or is this a premature death?
What are the symptoms please? I would say an average life for a Humax PVR would be roughly ten years but the hard drives often fail sooner but are relatively easy to replace.
And is it possible to retrieve the programmes on the HD or are they gone for good too?
Because of the encryption which is tied to a particular machine, I suspect they are gone.
Tigerfan11 – 19 hours ago »
Just had an e mail from Humax, limited time offer, they’re offering £50 off if anyones interested
Add AURA50 at the checkout
Thank you for that; I have been on the edge of buying an Aura for some time and that offer has just tipped the scales and I can confirm the code works.
Gerrymac – 6 hours ago »
Hi,
Noticed lately on my Fox 2 the screen size magnifies when I turn the system on. I do watch Live TV but with recordings I switch TV to Humax(on TV Menu at bottom of screen).The Humax is always on but this has been happening on a regular basis and the only way to rectify this is to pull the HDMI Lead from back of box and then re-connect.
What option is active if you press the “WIDE” button on the bottom of the remote? Does selecting one of the options help?
Clem_Dye – 9 hours ago »
Things were fine before the fire. According to my kit I have 100% signal quality and signal quality varying between 85-92%.
You have used quality twice; I assume one is quality and the other is strength but not sure which?
Music4fun – 16 hours ago »
I have a Humax foxat which is behaving very strange. I have just put a 1tb hd in
Please could you tell us which make and model of hard drive you have fitted?
badger65 – 2 hours ago »
Thank you for your swift reply. No the second TV is not smart. And I am in between houses in a rental property. So cannot start running cables. Can I do it via a streaming device somehow ?
I am not an expert on streaming devices but if the streaming device has a DLNA client (eg VLC) or can install a client then yes.
badger65 – 18 mins ago »
Hello, Is it possible to view my recordings on my 5000T on another TV in another room, via streaming or whatever means.
Is the other TV a Smart TV? If so you could probably do it via the DLNA server om the FVP-5000T or depending on the distance you could use an HDMI splitter and run a long HDMI lead to the other TV
dfday – 3 hours ago »
I have just bought a FVP5000 and, when setting it up, I noticed the same drop out and error message on All4. (And possibly another channel, but I’m not sure without going through again).
What software version ids the FVP-5000T using?
Phil s – 1 hour ago »
Turning off the smart tune is the ably thing I have not tried & was going to try this morning, as I said when I retune it keeps trying to retune to the south & I am now back in the midlands. I was going to try a reset but can not find how you do it as a last resort. We keep some music concerts on record & do not want them gone if I can help it.
Thanks very much I will try it a little later
You won’t lose any recordings if you do a reset. The procedure is Red Freeview button>Settings>System Settings>Factory Reset. This will delete the schedule of future recordings but will not delete any existing recordings. Note that the option will be greyed out if the box is recording or about to record. I would definitely try without the Smart tune option before trying the reset.
Phil s – 38 mins ago »
After a couple of time I noticed when on channel 1 it was saying BBC south which is Bristol area. It will not retune to the Wrekin, no matter how many times I retune, it’s stuck on that transmitter. Does anyone know what to do to get out of it
Try turning off the Smart retune option when tuning.
Tigerfan11 – 1 hour ago »
From my failing memory I think I formatted it FAT32 and used the T2 menu ( blue button) to copy over to ext hard drive.
That will give you decrypted SD recordings on the external drive but HD recordings will remain encrypted.
aciddad – 1 hour ago »
The clear space is where the led was in early versions of the FVP4000, before Humax used the downward facing led. The FVP5000 uses the same case.
OK that makes sense.
mactoshb – 33 mins ago »
I thought it must have crashed, but I was wrong I left it running overnight and found that it had completed the disk copy and on putting it my FVP 4000 I found that as soon as the machine was switched on the disk was working perfectly and had even restored the index of the ( what I thought had been deleted from the original disk. All the original programs were copied and are all playable. , makes sense I suppose as the machine did not even need a setup on installing the cloned disk as it is an full and exact copy.
Glad it worked but I still have no idea why the Humax wouldn’t format the hard drive itself.
I originally intended to install a 4TB drive, but had to settle for a 2TB drive as I could not source the larger drives, even as far afield as Germany, seems covid has caused problems there too.
Do we know whether a 4TB drive will work in an FVP-4000/5000 ?
andrewclark55 – 8 hours ago »
1. How could I diagnose the fault?
The first step would be to open the Humax and disconnect the hard drive. If the box behaves as a set top box then the problem is most likely with the hard drive.
2. If it is the HDD can I just replace it with a similar one and where would it then get its OS from?
Yes you can replace the hard drive with a similar drive; best to get something that is optimised for PVR usage. The operating system isn’t installed on the hard drive; it is in flash RAM on the mother board (which is why you ca boot the Humax without a hard drive).
And could I then copy across all the encrypted recordings using a Linux machine?
Yes I think so (although I haven’t actually done it). First you would install the new drive and let the Humax format it. Then take it out and use the Linux machine to copy the files across from the old drive to the new drive.
