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psp888: Can you update your ticket with the fix you have found? You never know it might help Fetch sort the issue. As you have said its OK for the box to check but it should go back to the power mode it was in.
I'm just installing the firmware update to my "fresh from the box" 8230.
It's updating via the home WiF network, but despite the screen saying it should take "about 5 to 10 minutes" it's still going (I assume) after 40 minutes. Since there's no progress bar I can't tell what, if anything, is happening.
Should it take this long? and what would happen if I turned the box off and on while it's halfway through?!
Thanks for any help.
How do you tell when 6 people are playing in a band?
psp888: Can you update your ticket with the fix you have found? You never know it might help Fetch sort the issue. As you have said its OK for the box to check but it should go back to the power mode it was in.
Not that I know of (I've had it up in my 8320HD blog for a while in the Feature Wishlist section, but it seems linking to that page will get me told off) and finally got another open ticket freed up today, so it's been logged as a missing feature with Fetch TV.Is there a way to disable the timeshift?
How about the TV key?How do you rejoin live TV after a pause and play at the moment? I retype the channel number in, but there must be a better way (FF'ing to the live point is obvious, but I want one button to go immediately back to live TV).
It certainly shouldn't take this long, every time I've updated firmware it's taken about 2 mins, much quicker than the 5 to 10 mins they put in their disclaimer.
Wired networking is far more reliable IMHO.
I found its better to update the firmware through USB and did this when I first got my Smartbox.
<Slaps head that he didn't think of it> Yep, that does indeed do the trick. A shame it's not actually documented anywhere in the Sep 2010 full user guide PDF though (and I think a second press of play should also jump to the live TV point, but maybe that's just me...).How about the TV key?
I've absolutely no idea on this one, but it's easy enough to wait until 7.00pm GMT on Wednesday 3rd November and tune into channel 50 (the new home of BBC One HD) of course Now if only the 8320HD could move/renumber channels, because it surely should be on Freeview channel 1 for anyone with a Freeview HD box?Does anyone know if the box automatically scans and adds new channels or do new channels have to be scanned in manually?
Regarding the hard drive spinning all the time, I recently raised a ticket to Fetch support asking if the drive (and external USB drives plugged in for archiving) could be set to power down after a set period of inactivity in normal standby. I was hoping they could stop after say 5-10 minutes, am concerned about energy use, the life of the drive and also the noise is irritating.
Their response said that the internal drive should stop after 20 minutes on standby. Mine doesn't - does anyone else's? Fetch have promised to look into this for me, but it has been a few days so am not hopeful of a response.
They also said it is up to the external USB drive to power itself down after a period of inactivity, and not up to the smartbox to tell it to. This doesn't seem right, I know on a PC (which all such drives are usually designed to be used with) there is a setting for this under drive properties, so it is PC controlled. On this basis you would expect the smartbox to be able to do it as well.
You should get the hard drive to power down if you hold down the power button and then press blue. This will put the box into low power standby immediately.
Try going into Preferences > Display and changing the Energy Savings delay to something like 2 minutes or as I have it set to, 10 minutes.
Interesting, are you using HDMI or optical output to connect to your surround sound? Have tried optical output previously but sound is out of sync. I am now using HDMI into Sony Bravia TV and optical output from that into surround sound. This gives sound in sync but not sure if it would give 5.1 surround using this method?I raised aTicket with Fetch at 22:30 last night just to enquire about 5.1 Audio out on the HD channels (if it would ever happen )
I had a reply within 20 Minutes.
They sent a configuration to my box today, I was told to restart box.
I have tested it and now have 5.1 on BBC HD
Also switches to 5.1 when I was watching Desperate Housewives on 4HD, although it dropped to Pro Logic during the Ads
It is also at a decent level with no distortion....
Sorry, it was just the excitement of figuring out a workaround to this annoying problem. It really does work, or at least did this time, can't wait for next Monday to see if problem happens again.Welcome to the forum Ian... but can I persuade you to use some line breaks and paragraphs please? It makes it much easier for members to read.
That's a lot of information packed into a tight space.
Thanks.
Why not try either way and see what happens? set up a recording from 2.00 to 3.00 and see how long it records.I'd recommend against recording programmes that go through the time zone change (and if you really must, push the end time back more than an hour to play it safe), but that's just the paranoia setting in...
Actually, I set up a recording of the repeat of the Elton John Electric Proms on BBC HD, which if you highlight on the EPG (Sunday morning, 1.15am GMT) says it airs 1.15-1.15!Why not try either way and see what happens?
It's a known issue - here's what I say in my 8320HD blog about it:I set it to record one episode on Tuesday and ever since its been recording every single episode that airs on Channel 4 even though I haven't set a series link.
Interesting, are you using HDMI or optical output to connect to your surround sound? Have tried optical output previously but sound is out of sync. I am now using HDMI into Sony Bravia TV and optical output from that into surround sound. This gives sound in sync but not sure if it would give 5.1 surround using this method?
isn't that true, though? the programme will start at 1.15 summer time and end at 1.15 winter time. This looks pretty intelligent to me.I set up a recording of the repeat of the Elton John Electric Proms on BBC HD, which if you highlight on the EPG (Sunday morning, 1.15am GMT) says it airs 1.15-1.15!
Except that when you put it in the scheduled recordings list, it does display the time correctly (1.15-2.15) [or "wrongly" if you prefer]. One of the two is wrong, therefore this is a bug.isn't that true, though? the programme will start at 1.15 summer time and end at 1.15 winter time. This looks pretty intelligent to me.
There's a good reason why BST stops at 2am when it's all quiet, rather than at let's say noon. Who cares about a TV schedule, but imagine the cahos for trains and planes.Except that when you put it in the scheduled recordings list, it does display the time correctly (1.15-2.15) [or "wrongly" if you prefer]. One of the two is wrong, therefore this is a bug.
... says the Elton show is "1.15-2.15am (BST)", which is also wrong since BST stops at 2.00am.