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austintaunton – 5 hours ago  » 

We receive our Freeview signals from a rather distant Mendip transmitter. On our TV we get Film 4 on channel 14 and More 4 on Channel 18 which I believe is what should be there. However on the PVR Channel 14 is More 4 and Channel 18 says Four music though we don’t get a usable signal. Film 4 doesn’t appear to be anywhere.

Does anyone else have this issue and is there a solution please?

I would suggest doing an automatic retune but with the ‘Smart tune’ option deactivated. This will delete the schedule of future recordings but will not delete recordings that you have stored on the hard drive.

One other issue (for now) is that when replaying most recordings the first thing to come up is a dialogue at the top of the screen saying “recording failed”.

I quite commonly see this only on BBC4 programmes; is it happening for you on all programmes? If not, which channels are likely to generate this message?

austintaunton – 39 mins ago  » 

Hi,

Thanks for your responses to date.

The Model is FVP-5000T. 4 – 5 years old.

I’ve not noticed if the failed recording warning is common to a group of channels. I’ll take note over the coming days.

I’ve tried a standard auto retune but that doesn’t correct the channel issue. I’ll locate ‘smart tune’ and try again with it switched off in due course. Thanks for the warning about the future recording schedule issue.

I think you have two issues.

Apologies I’m in a bit of a rush for a few days and so this post from me will be short.

Your channels being not in the correct position has been reported before on this forum and a non-smart retune did not help for at least one FVP owner.

Try a manual retune. A manual retune involves wiping out all tuned channels and then tuning in the channel frequencies for the transmitter one by one, (for you there are 6).

See https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/manual-tuning-instructions-1

The second issue may be with your aerial itself. Almost 2 years ago some of the frequencies from Mendip changed resulting in some aerials in Taunton struggling a bit. This isn’t always obvious but your box might have realised that there was a minor blip in the signal and thus the “Recording Failed” message. If your signal appears stable and the only issue is an occasional misreported “Recording Failed” then I’d just forget about it and leave the aerial as it is.

And yes it would help to report back which group of channels are those that dis-appear and which are kept.

See https://www.freeview.co.uk/corporate/platform-management/channel-listings-industry-professionals

If you page down and click on the “MUX” heading then the list of channels will be listed by MUX. If you loose reception for one channel from a MUX then almost always the others will also be lost. It is probably similar for your lost channels.

Argus – 13 hours ago  » 

I very occasionally record/watch films on Film4 but some weeks ago I noticed I couldn’t find it’s schedule or the channel – with other time pressures I ignored the problem and hoped it would resolve itself.

But today I wanted to record a film coming up next week, and again couldn’t find Film4 or Film4+1 So after trying a Smart automatic rescan of all the channels, I turned to this page for inspiration. I didn’t fancy turning the Smart feature off but tried a Manual scan of Winter Hill’s C34 which includes Film4. Still no success.

So next I thought what if this is just an additive process and something is already occupying the TV channel slot where the scan is attempting to put Film4. I realised my Humax 5000T already had More4 on Channel 14, so I went in and deleted More4 from Channel 14, did a Manual scan of Winter Hills C34 and success, I now have Film4 on TV channel 14. I did the same for Film4+1 (not sure what the channel numbers were) and that now works OK.

Hope this worhs for others.

It does work for others because it is the method recommended here frequently to anyone having this issue but not immediately obvious as a solution. As with a lot of things, it’s better you have figured out what to do by actually trying, most don’t.