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Can anyone advise me about my Humax PVR-9300T
For the past 2 weeks, the recording function on this machine is unpredictable.
There was a digital retune about a couple of weeks before that.
It started with those programs with a series link not recording the second episode.
I did a re-install and retune and the programmed recordings worked for a day, then stopped again.
Since reading the blogs, I removed the automatic update on the set-up.
Even the record red button would not function with some progs, although it worked with others.
I redid the programme reservations marking each one individually, not using the series link.
One day, it seemed to be the BBC which was causing probs, another day channel 5.
Today, it has been both BBC and channel 5.
Is this a mechanical problem with the box, or with the software or with Freeview?
The reserved flags still show on the EPG, but recorder doesn’t start.
ABell – 8 hours ago »
I did a re-install and retune and the programmed recordings worked for a day, then stopped again.
Did you do an automatic retune or a manual retune? If automatic then I would suggest a manual retune using these instructions: Biggles manual tuning FAQ
ABell – 8 hours ago »
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I did a re-install and retune and the programmed recordings worked for a day, then stopped again.
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What do you mean by “re-install”, do you mean Default Setting? If not then do a Default Setting followed by a Manual Search as suggested by Martin above.
Thank you for this help, sorry for the delay in replying – I was out all day and evening yesterday.
I have now done a manual retune as suggested.
I have not tried programmed recording yet, but no programmes will record live using the ‘record’ button.
Humaxdigital has actually replied to my email sent at the same time as my first post (replies to previous emails in the past took a couple of weeks!)
They say the only thing to do is to reformat and lose all my saved recordings!! Do you have any less drastic suggestions? Thank you.
ABell – 4 minutes ago »
I have not tried programmed recording yet, but no programmes will record live using the ‘record’ button.
They say the only thing to do is to reformat and lose all my saved recordings!! Do you have any less drastic suggestions? Thank you.
I agree with Humax that a format is the only reasonable solution. If you wanted to keep the recordings and were prepared to open the Humax and attach the hard drive to a PC then you could download the recordings using humaxrw and you would then be able to play them on the PC.
Thank you – I could do that — BUT —
Humaxrw is a Windows or Linux programme and I have a Mac.
I have ‘Googled’ for a Mac version of anything similar, but they are all old ones now not available.
Any Mac people out there?
I have an ElgatoVideoCapture, but that takes longer than real time to copy each file becuase of the set-up time and the failure rate of the recording process, and it ties up the Humax, TV and computer!
ABell – 29 minutes ago »
I have ‘Googled’ for a Mac version of anything similar, but they are all old ones now not available.
As far as I know there has never been a humaxrw version for the Mac and nothing else would work for the 9150.
Have you tried HDC (link) which has a Mac version – not sure how similar the filesystem is on the 9300 is to the 9200.
Alternatively you could try a Live Linux CD/DVD Distro.
Martin Liddle – 1 day ago »
aldaweb – 39 minutes ago »
Have you tried HDC (link) which has a Mac version – not sure how similar the filesystem is on the 9300 is to the 9200.
How is that going to work? It uses the USB port on the 9200 which is absent on the 9150.
Sorry Martin, in this instance I think you’re mistaken.
Last time I tried it, it used the USB-IDE mod. It is based on 9200treadfiles. From the HDC pages:
Quote:This utility program is based on the work of phew and his program 9200TReadFilesPerhaps Son_t could clarify
aldaweb – 1 hour ago »
Sorry Martin, in this instance I think you’re mistaken.
Apologies I remembered wrongly. I still think there will be problems as the file system on the 9150/9300 does have subtle changes from the 9200 and humaxrw needed to be modified to work on them and I don’t see any mention of the work being done in the release notes for hdc.
Thank you for all this info.
Today, the timed recordings are actually recording!! Don’t know how long that will last.
My machine is the 9300T and it doesn’t have a USB socket.
I have had a reply from Humax:- “Unfortunately the PVR-9300T models do not have the ability to retreive recorded programs from them and the hard-drives on which these are stored are using a EXT-3 file structure, which would most likely require specific software to read a Linux partition.”
I am taking some recordings off using Elgato Video Capture
ABell – 9 hours ago »
I have had a reply from Humax:- “Unfortunately the PVR-9300T models do not have the ability to retreive recorded programs from them and the hard-drives on which these are stored are using a EXT-3 file structure, which would most likely require specific software to read a Linux partition.”
It is shocking that Humax should send you a response that is so technically incorrect. The file system has nothing to do with Linux; it is proprietary and specific to a small number of Humax designs,
ABell – 12 hours ago »
My machine is the 9300T and it doesn’t have a USB socket.
You would have to open the unit and attach the drive to USB via an adapter or remove the drive and attach to a spare SATA or eSATA port
I have had a reply from Humax:- “Unfortunately the PVR-9300T models do not have the ability to retreive recorded programs from them and the hard-drives on which these are stored are using a EXT-3 file structure, which would most likely require specific software to read a Linux partition.”
I am taking some recordings off using Elgato Video Capture
Someone at Humax should definitely get their knuckles rapped for that howler.
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