OK on mine. If you press guide does it complete or get stuck downloading programme data ?

merlin777 – 14 minutes ago  » 

the guide completes normally and smoothly but info is missing.

I haven’t been powering it down overnight – might that be a factor?

Yes you will have missed all the epg changes from the time you left it on 24/7.

https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/update-log-for-recordwatch-apps

Make a note/photograph your schedule and do a freesat re-tune.

If that fails you may need to do a factory reset.

Alternatively make sure it’s in sby overnight tonight so the overnight housekeeping can run.

merlin777 – 1 minute ago  » 

Thanks Graham. I’ll try the overnight option first.

Would a factory reset wipe my recordings?

No just resets every user setting back to defaults (box volume for instance). Not sure why you leave it on, however you could set a power off for say 03:00 and power on 05:00. Housekeeping boots the box at 04:00 BST.

You do release all the time it’s on the box writes and re-writes to the same area of the hard disk (The time shift buffer file), which is bound to create issues eventually.

merlin777 – 29 minutes ago  » 

The reason I leave it on is that I’m disabled and if I’m in bed but can’t sleep I’ll watch a recording using raydon’s software. It’s not easy for me to get downstairs to turn the box on if it’s been switched into standby.

I’ve just set it for 0300/0500 as you suggest and we’ll see how that goes.

Thanks, Graham.

You can turn the box off using the Webif remote, assuming you haven’t gone to sleep of course

merlin777 – 1 minute ago  » 

but I don’t think I can turn it on with the webif remote, can I? Nothing worse than waking up in the middle of the night and getting bored…

Correct. Though you could rig a wireless ir remote extender to boot the box remotely and also control it if you take the remote with you (or buy an extra one).

eg

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Marmitek-PowerMid-XL-infrared-extender/dp/B000GIXH42

merlin777 – 54 minutes ago  » 

excellent idea – thanks, Graham.

You are welcome let us know if you implement

Incidentally I sometimes suffer from the same problem. I use a Nexus 7 tablet and normally use iplayer or the other catch up channels (Grand Designs from All 4 is good to send you to sleep . ) I now have a live TV server (with usb recording) £24.99 from Maplin.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/tvman-home-wifi-tv-hotspot-a89nj

I usually wake around 6 am and snooze to BBC 1 breakfast, somewhat annoying is iplayer live stream gets you local news from London. I now have all the SD channels and get my Midlands local news).

At 70 I am amazed at what you can now achieve using mobile devices.

merlin777 – 7 minutes ago  » 

Wow – that looks like an excellent bit of kit… presumably freeview based?

Yes just needs a aerial connection and a connection to your router. Ideally a cat5 cable to your router. Mine is in my study next to my router. Recording is primitive compared to a proper pvr (lacking series recording), but does have an epg and one off recording from it. It also has a peer to peer WiFi capability meaning you can take it anywhere with it’s recording drive and watch without any network access or aerial connection.