Humax PVR Over Air upgrades

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Interesting to learn in this thread of a few people with problems.
This has been a bit hidden lately. I do not think they know what to do
- one of mine has been back for fixing and it came back OK but then
trouble broke out again.

When first switched on there is a period of doing what they are told to
for about a minute but later they can lock up at any time.

We switch on here automatically and leave for 30 minutes before any
serious use is made of the boxes. This worked well for 6 months but has
gone to pot recently. This allows the EPG to be loaded as well.

When playing back the biggest problem is due to the operator not
pausing when changing from x2 to x 4 to x 16 playback forwards or
backwards. If this is the case you are likely to find a playback at x
16 on screen with a x 2 indicated on the lower display and a refusal to
stop. Always in trouble with stops on fast wind. But stop seems to have
a priority so it happens within a sensible time say 1 minute and then
you can always go back to where you where without problems - it is as
if the stop resets something.

It is about time they gave us a fix or two.

Anyone see the OA upgrade scheduled to appear please post here in
this thread so that it can be caught by as many as have been
concerned. In some cases there has not been much warning.

They're usually posted here, but you can keep an eye out yourself.

http://www.dtg.org.uk/industry/download_schedule.php


--
Ian

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When playing back the biggest problem is due to the operator not pausing
when changing from x2 to x 4 to x 16 playback forwards or backwards. If
this is the case you are likely to find a playback at x 16 on screen with
a x 2 indicated on the lower display and a refusal to stop. Always in
trouble with stops on fast wind. But stop seems to have a priority so it
happens within a sensible time say 1 minute and then you can always go
back to where you where without problems - it is as if the stop resets
something.

I'm unreasonable and expect it to obey my every command immediately! When
it's working well I've very proficient at skipping the ads and restarting
just as insert advert of your choice comes on prior to the program
restarting.

An added hiccup is that if you press play twice, you get back to the start
of the program. So if it's off doing 16x, and I press play, and nothing
happens, did I press the button hard enough? Did it ignore me? If I press
it again will it jump back to the start of the program? ITS ALL TOO
STRESSFULLLLLLLLLLLLLL.

I just want the darned thing to work and I'm very disappointed that an
otherwise great little box is let down by shoddy software.

Anyone want to try a public domain port to the platform ;-). If they
weren't so cheap compared to the "build your own" approach, that would have
been the way I went, then I could fix my own problems.

Paul DS.

On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:49:24 -0000, "Paul D.Smith"
wrote:


An added hiccup is that if you press play twice, you get back to the start
of the program. So if it's off doing 16x, and I press play, and nothing
happens, did I press the button hard enough? Did it ignore me? If I press
it again will it jump back to the start of the program? ITS ALL TOO
STRESSFULLLLLLLLLLLLLL.

Press Pause once to stop the 16x onrush and then press Pause again to
start it running at normal speed. Since I realised that the Pause button
toggles between "pause" and "resume playing from the current position" I
have not ever touched the Play button.

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Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

"Peter Duncanson" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:49:24 -0000, "Paul D.Smith"
wrote:


An added hiccup is that if you press play twice, you get back to the start
of the program. So if it's off doing 16x, and I press play, and nothing
happens, did I press the button hard enough? Did it ignore me? If I
press
it again will it jump back to the start of the program? ITS ALL TOO
STRESSFULLLLLLLLLLLLLL.

Press Pause once to stop the 16x onrush and then press Pause again to
start it running at normal speed. Since I realised that the Pause button
toggles between "pause" and "resume playing from the current position" I
have not ever touched the Play button.

Excellent! Tip-of-the-day for me :-).

Paul DS

"Paul D.Smith" wrote in message
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...snip...

When playing back the biggest problem is due to the operator not pausing
when changing from x2 to x 4 to x 16 playback forwards or backwards. If
this is the case you are likely to find a playback at x 16 on screen with
a x 2 indicated on the lower display and a refusal to stop. Always in
trouble with stops on fast wind. But stop seems to have a priority so it
happens within a sensible time say 1 minute and then you can always go
back to where you where without problems - it is as if the stop resets
something.

I'm unreasonable and expect it to obey my every command immediately! When
it's working well I've very proficient at skipping the ads and restarting
just as insert advert of your choice comes on prior to the program
restarting.

An added hiccup is that if you press play twice, you get back to the start
of the program. So if it's off doing 16x, and I press play, and nothing
happens, did I press the button hard enough? Did it ignore me? If I
press it again will it jump back to the start of the program? ITS ALL TOO
STRESSFULLLLLLLLLLLLLL.

I just want the darned thing to work and I'm very disappointed that an
otherwise great little box is let down by shoddy software.

Anyone want to try a public domain port to the platform ;-).

What is "the platform"?

Surely the hard part of making a PVR is all the overhead of
manufacturing/distributing the hardware. The design is relatively trivial
by comparison (IMHO)..

I'd just love to spend my time making a better PVR, but I just don't have
the contacts to be able to sell my output.

tim

In message , Peter Duncanson
writes
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:49:24 -0000, "Paul D.Smith"
wrote:


An added hiccup is that if you press play twice, you get back to the start
of the program. So if it's off doing 16x, and I press play, and nothing
happens, did I press the button hard enough? Did it ignore me? If I press
it again will it jump back to the start of the program? ITS ALL TOO
STRESSFULLLLLLLLLLLLLL.

Press Pause once to stop the 16x onrush and then press Pause again to
start it running at normal speed. Since I realised that the Pause button
toggles between "pause" and "resume playing from the current position" I
have not ever touched the Play button.

Very useful find that - wish there was a list of this and other things.
It explains a lot of my early troubles.




--
Paul Kelly

In message , tim....
writes

"Paul D.Smith" wrote in message
...
...snip...

When playing back the biggest problem is due to the operator not pausing
when changing from x2 to x 4 to x 16 playback forwards or backwards. If
this is the case you are likely to find a playback at x 16 on screen with
a x 2 indicated on the lower display and a refusal to stop. Always in
trouble with stops on fast wind. But stop seems to have a priority so it
happens within a sensible time say 1 minute and then you can always go
back to where you where without problems - it is as if the stop resets
something.

I'm unreasonable and expect it to obey my every command immediately! When
it's working well I've very proficient at skipping the ads and restarting
just as insert advert of your choice comes on prior to the program
restarting.

An added hiccup is that if you press play twice, you get back to the start
of the program. So if it's off doing 16x, and I press play, and nothing
happens, did I press the button hard enough? Did it ignore me? If I
press it again will it jump back to the start of the program? ITS ALL TOO
STRESSFULLLLLLLLLLLLLL.

I just want the darned thing to work and I'm very disappointed that an
otherwise great little box is let down by shoddy software.

Anyone want to try a public domain port to the platform ;-).

What is "the platform"?

Surely the hard part of making a PVR is all the overhead of
manufacturing/distributing the hardware. The design is relatively trivial
by comparison (IMHO)..

I'd just love to spend my time making a better PVR, but I just don't have
the contacts to be able to sell my output.

We are all on here so set to it. Just don't forget the second tuner.

tim





--
PK
pauldotkellyatmcbdotnet

On Feb 10, 3:36*pm, wrote:
In message , tim....
writes





"Paul D.Smith" wrote in message
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...snip...

When playing back the biggest problem is due to the operator not pausing
when changing from x2 to x 4 to x 16 playback forwards or backwards. *If
this is the case you are likely to find a playback at x 16 on screen with
a x 2 indicated on the lower display and a refusal to stop. Always in
trouble with stops on fast wind. *But stop seems to have a priority so it
happens within a sensible time say 1 minute and then you can always go
back to where you where without problems - it is as if the stop resets
something.

I'm unreasonable and expect it to obey my every command immediately! *When
it's working well I've very proficient at skipping the ads and restarting
just as insert advert of your choice comes on prior to the program
restarting.

An added hiccup is that if you press play twice, you get back to the start
of the program. *So if it's off doing 16x, and I press play, and nothing
happens, did I press the button hard enough? *Did it ignore me? *If I
press it again will it jump back to the start of the program? *ITS ALL TOO
STRESSFULLLLLLLLLLLLLL.

I just want the darned thing to work and I'm very disappointed that an
otherwise great little box is let down by shoddy software.

Anyone want to try a public domain port to the platform ;-).

What is "the platform"?

Surely the hard part of making a PVR is all the overhead of
manufacturing/distributing the hardware. *The design is relatively trivial
by comparison (IMHO)..

I'd just love to spend my time making a better PVR, but I just don't have
the contacts to be able to sell my output.

We are all on here so set to it. *Just don't forget the second tuner.

Yep, get gathering those requirements and don't forget to include HD.

On Feb 10, 3:56*pm, Mike wrote:
On Feb 10, 3:36*pm, wrote:



In message , tim....
writes

"Paul D.Smith" wrote in message
...
...snip...

When playing back the biggest problem is due to the operator not pausing
when changing from x2 to x 4 to x 16 playback forwards or backwards.. *If
this is the case you are likely to find a playback at x 16 on screen with
a x 2 indicated on the lower display and a refusal to stop. Always in
trouble with stops on fast wind. *But stop seems to have a priority so it
happens within a sensible time say 1 minute and then you can always go
back to where you where without problems - it is as if the stop resets
something.

I'm unreasonable and expect it to obey my every command immediately! *When
it's working well I've very proficient at skipping the ads and restarting
just as insert advert of your choice comes on prior to the program
restarting.

An added hiccup is that if you press play twice, you get back to the start
of the program. *So if it's off doing 16x, and I press play, and nothing
happens, did I press the button hard enough? *Did it ignore me? *If I
press it again will it jump back to the start of the program? *ITS ALL TOO
STRESSFULLLLLLLLLLLLLL.

I just want the darned thing to work and I'm very disappointed that an
otherwise great little box is let down by shoddy software.

Anyone want to try a public domain port to the platform ;-).

What is "the platform"?

Surely the hard part of making a PVR is all the overhead of
manufacturing/distributing the hardware. *The design is relatively trivial
by comparison (IMHO)..

I'd just love to spend my time making a better PVR, but I just don't have
the contacts to be able to sell my output.

We are all on here so set to it. *Just don't forget the second tuner.

Yep, get gathering those requirements and don't forget to include HD.

Oh and the ability to REMEMBER SERIES LINK SCHEDULED RECORDINGS AFTER
DOING AN OVER AIR UPGRADE AND DEVICE RESET !!!!!
That one bugged me this time for my 9150. :/

Mike wrote:

Oh and the ability to REMEMBER SERIES LINK SCHEDULED RECORDINGS AFTER
DOING AN OVER AIR UPGRADE AND DEVICE RESET !!!!!
That one bugged me this time for my 9150. :/

Whilst you are at it, How about making series link compatible
with padding?

Chris
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Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK


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