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Every time we go away for more than 2/3 days all our recordings show failed – power interupt/power failed.
I have a separate recorder on another TV and that shows no power failures which makes me think that the HUmax is powering completely off and not allowing recordings.. Any help would be appreciated.
No they show as a faded out grey box . Also shows pore failed
Are you sure that you are getting a signal through to the aerial socket?
Is the Humax “last in the chain” and an earlier device is in standby and therefore not passing the signal to it? I know that the 400T has the option of allowing, or not allowing, the signal to passthroutgh it when it is in standby – perhaps another box is doing it.
It’s easy to test. Let the Humax go into standby. Remove the aerial lead. Wait until a scheduled recording has taken place.
What happened?
All recordings work fine. It appears that when we are home obviously we power the Humax. On everyday. When we are not at home theHumax is in standby. So I guess it must be powering down?
So the airiel is connected and working fine.
All Humax PVR’s are designed to be left in standby and to auto wake before a recording is due.
I don’t know your unit but many of Humax PVR’s do boot-up checks for channel changes etc which, if you leave it on and disable auto standby, will be missed.
Quote:So the airiel is connected and working fine.What happened when you did the test I suggested?
I have the same issue. It’s fricking annoying!
If I don’t physically power it on each day all the recordings fail, I also have to pull the power cable to be able to get it to power on.
TrancePants – 5 hours ago »
I have the same issue. It’s fricking annoying!
If I don’t physically power it on each day all the recordings fail, I also have to pull the power cable to be able to get it to power on.
Set a power on timer on BBC1-HD at 07:00 Volume 10 daily and a matching power off timer at 07:15
I’ve set a timer as you suggested. Hopefully it’ll work as it’s the last chance for the 4000t before it get smashed up! It’s been driving my crazy since it had that update to bring some of the 5000t features, maybe that’s the problem?
Any suggestions for a freeview recorder that just works?
Panasonic ?
TrancePants – 1 day ago »
I’ve set a timer as you suggested. Hopefully it’ll work as it’s the last chance for the 4000t before it get smashed up! It’s been driving my crazy since it had that update to bring some of the 5000t features, maybe that’s the problem?
Any suggestions for a freeview recorder that just works?
Panasonic ?
Not sure what you expect extra from the 5000T. Both are virtually identical other than minor hardware differences.
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What problem did you have with the 4000T that you thought the the 4000T would solve ?
If a 5000T has the same issues as a 4000T over a 4000T, you should look to a local issue.
Somme 4000T owners already confirmed that 4000T owners were able to install the 5000T software when Humax released it, and it worked with so far no posted issues.
How is the box connected to your broadband router ?
Who provides your broadband services ?
Left the 4000t for a few days since doing daily timer, just checked it, had to do a power cable pull (no surprise there) also all the recordings have failed. Being connected to the router by cable/wifi or not even using the connected feature makes no difference. If I don’t personally power on the heap of junk daily all recordings fail.
Currently looking into getting another recorder that actually works reliably unlike the problematic 4000t as it’s not fit for purpose.
As I stated already the mass of problems started when the 4000t had the update that gave it the same features as the 5000t
I have the 5000t box and have been having the same issue over the last few days, recordings fail due to power failure? Been away so the box wasn’t powered on everyday but was left in standby.
Also the box says there is no signal on certain channels even though the TV is showing them fine and the TV gets the signal via the 5000t box
Are you certain the recording isn’t there?
My 4000T often gives me a drop-down window which states the recording has failed due to a power failure (and sometimes due to no signal??).
If I continue to watch the recording starts OK a few seconds later. I have never actually lost a recording.
dogtanian – 27 minutes ago »
Also the box says there is no signal on certain channels even though the TV is showing them fine and the TV gets the signal via the 5000t box
That sounds as though the box may not be correctly tuned. Try doing a manual tune using these instructions from the FAQ https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/manual-tuning-instructions-1 If that doesn’t resolve the problem then post the signal strength and quality whilst tuned to BBC 1.
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