I don’t know about Hetty Wainthrop (in fact never heard of such) but I posted yesterday about a problem where my 4000T (yes, I know it’s a different machine) is starting scheduled recordings 5 mins late. So for a 18.30-19.00 recording now starting 5 mins late at 18.35, the result is the recording is only 25 mins – ie. I lose the first 5 mins.

I wonder if there’s a common problem?

paul4 – 3 minutes ago  » 

canalhopper – 19 hours ago  » 

The Humax box offers the option to add extra time to both the start and end of a recording. Is that possibly the problem Paul4?

I discovered this padding when trying to solve the problem but it was not the cause. Padding was set to zero. I now have start padding of 5 mins and end padding of 5 mins.

BUT sometimes when recording successive programmes the padding could cause recording failure, if “end time + 5” overruled the next start time. This is like the bad old VCR days; was less of a problem with my 9200T and 9300T which could record two progs at the same time; and should be less so with my 4000T which record four at a time.

But padding isn’t the answer, and we’ve never had this particular late-start problem before something changed recently – I assume the last Humax software update.

The Foxsat-HDR software hasn’t been updated since 2012.

The problem is likely to be a screw up at the broadcaster end with the crid codes and Accurate recording start and stop recording signals.

No problems with my 5000T, and not seen any reported issues on a 4000T other than the well documented ones associated with a new playout system used by the BBC.