vrfc2 – 1 hour ago  » 

The padding doesn’t work on my box, spasmodic recording with same results.

Will try the auto power up before first record or simply just turn box on for a known problematic programme.

For a piece of kit thats not far off £300 you expect it to do exactly as it says on the proverbial tin!

Padding 2 mins at both ends is rock solid for me.

It would seem that my issues is with the first recording of the day. Today I set it to record bbc local news at lunchtime. This didn’t record, but pointless did ( and I’m glad, as someone actually won the £20k jackpot. But I think I need to get out more!! :oops:)

It would seem that it simply ingnores the first scheduled recording of the day/after a period of shut down.

Hopefully a fix is not far off!!

dancingbarber – 10 hours ago  » 

I have tried all the suggestions gratefully received from Graham and Barry, but now got to the state that it will only record when I press the record button.

Have sent an email to richersounds and copy to humax customer services asking for a full refund. The unit is clearly NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE. I have spent 3 months buggering about trying to get it to work properly……very very disappointed.

Have you tried a factory reset ?

So glad to have finally found an answer or at least I hope so. I’m on my second box having been advised by Humax customer service that my box must be faulty and so I returned it to Curry’s and got a replacement. Needless to say the new box has been doing exactly the same thing, not recording programs when the box has been on standby for long periods of time.

One thing I have noticed is that if you check on the signal strength during the time that a recording has failed it says that there is no signal from one of the ports.I would have though that this would mean you couldn’t record at all but if you then start to record a program the second signal returns…very odd.

Anyway, having read through all your comments I have added 2 mins auto padding to recordings and I’m hoping this will work, if not will then set box to start up in the morning.

Its such a shame that Humax customer service do not seem to be aware of this problem and the possible solution until such time as they come up with a fix.

ferrylass – 9 minutes ago  » 

One thing I have noticed is that if you check on the signal strength during the time that a recording has failed it says that there is no signal from one of the ports.I would have though that this would mean you couldn’t record at all but if you then start to record a program the second signal returns…very odd.

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All HDR-1000S boxes are the same, diagnostics only shows data for tuners actually in use (power saving ?). Starting a recording forces both tuners to be used so you get signals from both tuners. If it says two connections at the bottom of the screen nothing to worry about. By recording different channels you can check the individual signals from the transponders in use.