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ChemicalRob – 1 day ago »
I have a attenuator (not in use) but lowering the strength won’t increase the quality will it?
It is well known on other Humax units that too high a signal level causes the tuners to saturate and their performance drops off and hence the quality drops. The signal strength is an arbitrary scale set by Humax; the quality is a measure of how much error correction is needed. In normal circumstances 100% quality is usually attainable and desirable.
SSThing – 16 hours ago »
All I can say with any degree of certainty is that it only began after YT fix update. I have used instant record many many times over the years (I’m a carer so it is a very useful feature if the bell goes and I’m called away) and if the issue had been present before I would have noticed.
I agree the reports did seem to start after the YT fix. I struggle to see how a change of browser version could influence this but there is always the possibility that Humax had a little tamper with something else. On the odd occasion I have used it, it works but that may just be because I don’t use it very often. I just way think that the only faint hope it might get fixed is to be able to spot a pattern and be able to provide Humax with a way to reproduce the problem themselves.
phlppip – 15 hours ago »
In this line everything is done by the average to rule out extremes.
People are offering their personal opinions on the noise level of the Aura; how can that be an average? Let alone the fact that experience with other Humax boxes suggests there is fair bit of variation in noise between individual units off the production line.
You do seem to be very pedantic.
So do you.
Barry – 13 hours ago »
Fix is being rolled out to all users, check unit for app update.
As a matter of interest Barry, is there any indication of what the problem was? It seemed a very odd one.
SSThing – 3 hours ago »
Just had a recording failure on BBC1 HD, recording claims to be 35 minutes long but is actually 9 mins 21 seconds and then ends. Had this type of thing frequently. The other variation is where the recording should be until the end of the prog (1 hour max) but is reported to be 1 hour 55 minutes but is actually only until the end of the prog as expected.
Unfortunately I am unable to deliberately recreate the problem.
It is a very odd problem and I ran out of ideas some time ago. I don’t use instant recordings very often as I prefer to set recordings in advance for anything I might want to watch. Maybe you could keep a log (programme, channel, time, date) of when the problem occurs and when it doesn’t and perhaps somebody could spot a pattern.
ChemicalRob – 1 min ago »
Just had a look and it’s all the main HD channels, BBC1 HD, ITV HD, BBC2 HD etc on PSB-3 – HD mux, so yes I have all of those, 100% strength, and about 90% quality.
A 100% strength suggests the possibility that your signal strength is too high and the fact that the quality is less than 100% reinforces it. The aim is to have a quality figure of 100%.
phlppip – 4 hours ago »
Yes I agree, however a whisper is pretty much a subscribed volume, which the Aura fan does not come any where near.
What is a “Subscribed volume” please? If you are doing scientific measurements with appropriate measuring instrumentation then yes you can set levels and assign them a name such as “whisper quiet”. the problem is that on this forum I suspect people aren’t using any instrumentation beyond their own ears and each person will assign a different value to “whisper quiet”.
phlppip – 1 hour ago »
I consider my 2TB unit to be whisper quiet compared to other Humax models that I own, can’t see how you can say it’s not really.
I think the issue with personal opinions on noise is that each person has a different hearing threshold. I remember being with a group of friends fifty years ago and one of them said he could hear the sound of air leaking from a tyre valve; none of the rest of us could hear it until we got very close to the offending wheel. My hearing has since deetiolated considerably so what I might consider as whisper quiet is a cacophony to someone with acute hearing. I suspect the Aura is quieter than other Humax units but anything with a fan and a rotating hard drive will inevitably make some noise. In just a few more years I expect to see the rotating drives replaced by SSD drives and fans no longer required and then we might have truly silent units.
grahamlthompson – 2 hours ago »
https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/how-to-archive-recordings-to-usb-hdd
The question asked was “I now own a humax 5000 and would like to copy tv programmes to it from windows7 MCE”. How does your answer help the OP?
grahamlthompson – 4 hours ago »
Like many Humax PVRs To play back recordings requires support files you cannot normally see.
My belief is that the programmes will play without the support files but you loose some functionality.
Roger425 – 4 hours ago »
I now own a humax 5000 and would like to copy tv programmes to it from windows7 MCE via my mobile phone. Both devices see the phone and the pc name appears on the media menu in freeview play. But I can’t see the tv shows.
According to page 24 of the manual, you need to enable the Download folder and copy your programme files into that folder. I believe you can access the folder with FTP but not sure whether it shows up with any other file transfer protocols.
grahamlthompson – 1 hour ago »
Because the file is not actually deleted it is copied to a seperate area. If you have a lot it’s wasted space on the HDD.
I assume if such a capability was implemented it would be optional. If the expire time was zero then files would be deleted immediately in the normal way. For people who want the safeguard then it wouldn’t be wasted space.
For those of us who watch and delete immediately after viewing it’s going to leave a lot of data we don’t actually want.
I would view it as something that could be configured and those who don’t want it would turn it off and not waste any space.
How would you handle the deletion of a folder with many recordings in it ?
Simple Example of this. I have a ITV-HD Tipping Point folder with 12 episodes. In it and just 8% Free Space.
Having marked the files as provisionally deleted you would still have 8% free space.
And I imagine it would make the auto delete oldest when HDD is nearly full awkward
If auto delete is on then I assume it would work as it currently does and delete the oldest files not marked to be preserved.
grahamlthompson – 28 mins ago »
Undelete is tricky to do on Linux.
Why do you think it is tricky? The custom firmware for the HDR-FOX T2 has an undelete capability.
And I imagine it would make the auto delete oldest when HDD is nearly full awkward.
I would implement it as the buffer holding items that the user has marked as deleted would start actually deleting them after a user specified number of days.
grahamlthompson – 4 hours ago »
The DLNA media server has write access.
As a matter of interest, why does the DLNA media server need write access to the USB port?
