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If you move forward Humax box on its shelf until coloured indicator lights shine downwards on to next lower shelf,where you have placed a small mirror.You can see when standing up the state of readyness of the box.
If you raise the back edge of the mirror ( the amount to raise done by trial and error),you can see from your armchair if box in stand by mode or switched on,It is suprising when switching on box from complete cold start how long it takes and how many presses of button it takes,to get it ready to use.
why they shine downwards and not forwards in the first place is a Humax design thing.
There seems to be 2 colours red and blue the red is on when power going into box and blue when recording and playing the purple is a mix of the 2 colours.
I have my box on a glass shelf and a DVD player underneath, I have positioned it so that the lights shine on the DVD player so I get a bright coloured strip of colour- it works really well.
I agree that red is when the box is in standby but for me it’s blue when the box is on (so anything other than standby) and then both lights (blue and red) when recording.
Christina2018 – 1 hour ago »
I have my box on a glass shelf and a DVD player underneath, I have positioned it so that the lights shine on the DVD player so I get a bright coloured strip of colour- it works really well.
I agree that red is when the box is in standby but for me it’s blue when the box is on (so anything other than standby) and then both lights (blue and red) when recording.
Unfortunately it’s also red when recording in sby. If you try and put the box in sby while recording only way to tell it’s gone into sby is look at the output on a TV.
On my box when it’s recording and I put it to standby it’s still red and blue but I thought when it was in standby (when nothing was recording to start with) it went red, and then later when it started recording it’d go to blue and red. I might have to do some experiments
Christina2018 – 35 minutes ago »
On my box when it’s recording and I put it to standby it’s still red and blue but I thought when it was in standby (when nothing was recording to start with) it went red, and then later when it started recording it’d go to blue and red. I might have to do some experiments
Mine is definately red. While recording boot the box and view the output on the TV. Press the sby button and the output to the TV should disapear. On my box the led changes back to red even though it’s still recording in sby.
The older boxes have a display with a recording icon that lights when recording in sby and displays the current channel so it’s clear what the box is actually doing when in sby.
I’m watching the box and recording at the same time. I turn the box into standby and the colours are still showing blue and red until that recording finishes. When I put my box to standby the TV screen goes black so I know the box has turned off.
When you say older boxes do you mean 4000 or even older say the 9300? Or are there different generations of 5000t which are different?
P.s. We are talking about the standby button being the big one top right of the remote, aren’t we? Just in case I’m talking about something incorrectly.
Christina2018 – 36 minutes ago »
I’m watching the box and recording at the same time. I turn the box into standby and the colours are still showing blue and red until that recording finishes. When I put my box to standby the TV screen goes black so I know the box has turned off.
When you say older boxes do you mean 4000 or even older say the 9300? Or are there different generations of 5000t which are different?
P.s. We are talking about the standby button being the big one top right of the remote, aren’t we? Just in case I’m talking about something incorrectly.
By older boxes I mean the pre FVP series boxes. Strange they behave differently. Yes I mean top right. My 5000T is in sby and recording caught red handed now (BBC1-HD) and lED is red.
Try setting a recording for say 30 mins away and put the box in sby. What colour is the LED after the recording should have started ?
I will check software version version in a bit when finished viewing a HDR-1000S recording.
Software updated a few days ago to
System Info
UKTFAE 1.03.47
System ID 9010.7D44
Software Build date 22 NOV 2018.
Suspect above may have changed the way the led works,
Box is due to next record from sby at 13:15. I will watch to see if the recording is now indicated while in sby.
My status LED shows in the same way as Christina.
Red – standby
Red and blue – recording
Blue – on
AJ – 6 minutes ago »
My status LED shows in the same way as Christina.
Red – standby
Red and blue – recording
Blue – on
What colour is it when it’s recording in sby for anyone that does not yet have the new software ?
I am on software 1.03.47 (22nd November 2018) not sure if that’s the new software or the old? I got my box in September so it must be new I guess but I can’t say when it updated.
I did a test yesterday afternoon, put the box in standby 30 minutes before a programme was due to record, red light showing. I heard the box ‘wake up’ to find the recording about 20 minutes before the programme start time (still red light showing). Then at 4pm when the recording started the lights changed to blue and red. This is what it’s done since I got it in September to my knowledge.
Mine shows red and blue when recording in standby.
steveq – 36 minutes ago »
Mine shows red and blue when recording in standby.
Mine does now, pretty sure it didn’t before the latest software update.
I have three FVP models for various reasons at the moment am puzzled by the power light question Two are FVP4000 and one an FVP5000. the thing that puzzles me is one 4000 and the 5000 both have no lights at the front, but one of the 4000 models has a very bright light on the front that is red when off and blue when switched on the two without lighhts do have the LED shining from underneath, very difficult to see and I have used a spare I/R cable to plug in to the optical output at the back and taped it onto the underside so it is visible from where I sit. I just thought the LEDs on the front of the two without lights on the front were faulty , but from the posts above it seems it is normal, but in that case what is the explanation for the 4000 that is lit like a xmas tree.
Has Humax seen sense and updated it with an LED on the front the two lightless ones do have the little window that the LEDs on the one with the light shine through, but I am not willing to break the seals to see if there is an LED behind the panels
Just posting this in case I am not alone in being puzzled by the lack of visible indication, as to when it is off or on, I have seen the comments about mirrors etc, but that is an odd way to indicate anything I am fed up getting up in the morning and finding it has been on all night after the somewhat unreliable remote failing to switch it off
Boyd (mactoshb)
Incidentally, Forgot to mention, the 5000 without lights just arrived and it updated the software during setup and the lightless 4000 also was updated last week. so I don’t think a software update is the answer the software is UKTFAE 1.03.52 on all three
Boyd
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