Sandy Heath EPG problems - or our Humax?

On Sunday evening we noticed that there were gaps in the EPG on our
Humax PVR 8000T.

Yesterday evening whne we switched on we had a totally blank EPG.

A power off and on of the Humax gave a part-filled EPG again, similar to
Sunday.

Telling it to update didn't solve the problem.

We are in south east Milton Keynes and normally get our signal from
Sandy Heath.

Is anyone else experiencing EPG problems from Sandy Heath?

Or have any suggestions how to get a full EPG back?

Thanks

Dianne

xyz wrote:

On Sunday evening we noticed that there were gaps in the EPG on our Humax
PVR 8000T.

Yesterday evening whne we switched on we had a totally blank EPG.

A power off and on of the Humax gave a part-filled EPG again, similar to
Sunday.

Telling it to update didn't solve the problem.

We are in south east Milton Keynes and normally get our signal from Sandy
Heath.

Is anyone else experiencing EPG problems from Sandy Heath?

Only on Channnel 4 - EPG data ends on Friday (Also MK)

In article , xyz
wrote:

On Sunday evening we noticed that there were gaps in the EPG on our
Humax PVR 8000T.

Yesterday evening whne we switched on we had a totally blank EPG.

A power off and on of the Humax gave a part-filled EPG again, similar to
Sunday.

Telling it to update didn't solve the problem.

We are in south east Milton Keynes and normally get our signal from
Sandy Heath.

Is anyone else experiencing EPG problems from Sandy Heath?

Or have any suggestions how to get a full EPG back?

Thanks

Dianne

The Humax does not cache the EPG so it has to download from scratch
each time it is switched on. To make matters worse it has insufficient
memory for a full 7 days EPG on all channels: and to make matters even
worse some channels - Ch4 is one - are cavalier about updating the EPG.
With these channels its often only about 3 days ahead.

One way of helping is to set up a set of favourites of the channels you
normally watch. Then the EPG only has to load for these channels and
not for a lot of other channels you don't watch, so you have a better
chance of getting a reasonable amount of intormation in. However it can
still take 5 minutes to load, and priority is given to the mux you are
on at the time.

Thanks, useful

D.

Roger Wilmut wrote:

In article , xyz
wrote:


On Sunday evening we noticed that there were gaps in the EPG on our
Humax PVR 8000T.

Yesterday evening whne we switched on we had a totally blank EPG.

A power off and on of the Humax gave a part-filled EPG again, similar to
Sunday.

Telling it to update didn't solve the problem.

We are in south east Milton Keynes and normally get our signal from
Sandy Heath.

Is anyone else experiencing EPG problems from Sandy Heath?

Or have any suggestions how to get a full EPG back?

Thanks

Dianne


The Humax does not cache the EPG so it has to download from scratch
each time it is switched on. To make matters worse it has insufficient
memory for a full 7 days EPG on all channels: and to make matters even
worse some channels - Ch4 is one - are cavalier about updating the EPG.
With these channels its often only about 3 days ahead.

One way of helping is to set up a set of favourites of the channels you
normally watch. Then the EPG only has to load for these channels and
not for a lot of other channels you don't watch, so you have a better
chance of getting a reasonable amount of intormation in. However it can
still take 5 minutes to load, and priority is given to the mux you are
on at the time.

SNIP
"xyz" wrote in message news:elm3b5$qe0

We are in south east Milton Keynes and normally get our signal from Sandy
Heath.

Is anyone else experiencing EPG problems from Sandy Heath?

Dianne
SNIP

Yes! Been having problems for about a week now. Started off with the Time
on the EPG being 'out' by random amounts - often 1 hour plus. Yesterday a
blank set of data on all channels?

Maurice

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:08:45 GMT, Roger Wilmut
wrote:

The Humax does not cache the EPG so it has to download from scratch
each time it is switched on.

It still does that? And to think people here still say it compares
favourably to the Hummy.
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Andrew wrote:
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:08:45 GMT, Roger Wilmut
wrote:

The Humax does not cache the EPG so it has to download from scratch
each time it is switched on.

It still does that? And to think people here still say it compares
favourably to the Hummy.

Hummy compares favourably to the Hummy. Of course!

:-p

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On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:36:22 +0000, Adrian C
wrote:

It still does that? And to think people here still say it compares
favourably to the Hummy.

Hummy compares favourably to the Hummy. Of course!

Doh! I meant Toppy :-)
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"Maurice" wrote in message
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SNIP
"xyz" wrote in message news:elm3b5$qe0

We are in south east Milton Keynes and normally get our signal from Sandy
Heath.

Is anyone else experiencing EPG problems from Sandy Heath?

Dianne
SNIP

Yes! Been having problems for about a week now. Started off with the
Time on the EPG being 'out' by random amounts - often 1 hour plus.
Yesterday a blank set of data on all channels?

Maurice

been getting probs here on talcolneston too. only full power off/on seems to
sort it.

Jon

JRS wrote:

We are in south east Milton Keynes and normally get our signal from
Sandy Heath.

Is anyone else experiencing EPG problems from Sandy Heath?


been getting probs here on talcolneston too. only full power off/on
seems to sort it.

Jon

Problems today with Midhurst. May have to resort to full power off too..

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