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Hi there. Had my Hummy for about 4 years now and this is the first serious problem I’ve encountered. It is not recording items in the schedule unless it’s on – example: it’s scheduled to record great british menu every day. At 1915 the box powers up as usual but will not start recording…until I turn the box in for real, which happened today when I came in and it only recorded the last 5 mins. I’ve already missed 2 other episodes because I was out.
Any ideas? Or us it on its last legs?
Welcome. You say the box powers up ready to record so presumably your clock is displaying the time in STANDBY? Have you done a re-tune recently, just before the problem started?
Hey, yeah pretty sure the time is displayed – will check tonight. As for retunes, yes several times what with all these digital switch overs. All factory default retunes.
Withnail73 – 1 hour ago »
As for retunes, yes several times what with all these digital switch overs. All factory default retunes.
Do you (or did you immediately after tuning) have channels above 800?
If you have got channels in the 800 range then your machine has picked up signals from more than one transmitter during the Automatic Search and this is causing your problems. You need to do a Manual Search, see here.
Do confirm the clock is displaying the time in STANDBY.
Just went into the channel list and the top channel is 311.
Just did a test by scheduling Dickinson on ITV+1…powered-up (clock visible), and started recording ok. Hmm.
Let’s see how it gets on with GBM on BBC2 later.
But is your clock visible in STANDBY?
If by standby you mean the state it’s in when the fan is whirring ready for record but nothing on the screen, yeah. It’s also visible when off and fully on.
Standby is the state the box enters when you press the power button on the remote from the ON state and when it has finished saving the EPG to the drive and there are no scheduled recordings due.
What Biggles was trying to ascertain is whether the clock was working correctly as if not it would have shown just 4 dashes in standby and would not wake for the recording. That does not appear to be applicable in your case.
Check you are not receiving any channels from more than one transmitter. You may need to do a manual tune – see this post here(link)
Edit2: Now corrected the link for SD manual tuning.
Edit: oops that link is for the HD models but is basically similar on the 9200t, select your transmitter, note down the channel numbers except the HD mux and autotune and immediadetly stop to clear the channels, then manually tune each mux in turn.Cheers, will give the manual retune a go…and if ain’t that?
aldaweb – 58 minutes ago »
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Edit: oops that link is for the HD models but is basically similar on the 9200t, select your transmitter, note down the channel numbers except the HD mux and autotune and immediadetly stop to clear the channels, then manually tune each mux in turn.
A link for manually tuning the SD models.
Thanks for that Les.
I was on call so had to dash off before I had a chance to get the correct link. I’ll amend my post above.
Withnail73 – 16 hours ago »
Cheers, will give the manual retune a go…and if ain’t that?
If that doesn’t solve it then turn off the box at the mains for at least 30 seconds then on powering back up do a default reset. (FAQ How Do I Do A Default Reset And What Settings Will It Affect?) Note that will clear your recording schedule and you may need to manually tune again. Hopefully that won’t be necessary.
Withnail73 – 1 week ago »
Cheers, will give the manual retune a go…and if ain’t that?
Then be prepared to explain why you thought you did the manual retune as described!
It works for most.
For those who it fails most of the failures appear to be because they did not follow the instructions.
Update…I decided to wait and not retune. It seems to have been a blip – very strange. Happened about three times but has been fine since. Thanks for the advice anyhow.
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