Clem_Dye
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I think that my Humax HDR1100S might be on the way out, and I wondered if anyone had experienced anything similar.
The box seemed to start misbehaving last Tuesday. I watched it wake-up and start recording the last episode of Shetland on BBC1HD at 21:00. I tried to wake the receiver as normal at about 30 minutes in, so that I could watch the start of the programme whilst it was still being recorded. Anyway, rather than waking-up reasonably quickly it seemed to go through a lengthy power-up, and when I checked the library for the Shetland recording there was just an entry for a failed recording at 2100. My first thought was possibly a hard drive issue, but older recordings seemed all present and correct, so I put it down to one of those things, and watched it via my Panasonic Freeview PVR instead (I always dual record stuff on Freeview and Freesat when I can -- nothing like having redundant systems. Too may years working in IT I suppose!)
On Friday, my builder was doing some fascia work above the satellite dish, and I had a mental note to check things later in the day when he'd finished but forgot. This afternoon, I woke the box from standby to add some new timer events. The recording of Rough Justice on More4+1 from Friday evening was in the library, and a check of both tuners showed 100% signal quality and strength on both tuners (my builder is pretty careful around my satellite kit) -- I wasn't expecting any issues. Anyway, this evening I woke the box up. It seemed to take a little longer than normal and when it finally powered-up it was complaining about there being no or weak satellite signal, which I thought odd given that things were fine earlier in the day. I power-cycled the box by pulling the mains power connection, and, on re-boot both tuners showed 100% values, as they did earlier in the day. I then watched the Rough Justice recording from yesterday, which was fine, then jumped to Netflix to play an episode of Orange Is The New Black for SWMBO. Playback started as normal for a couple of seconds then the app. advised that playback wasn't possible at this time and that I should try later. I immediately re-tried and the episode played to completion without further issue.
The lack of signal could perhaps be down to an iffy LNB -- the dish assembly was installed getting on for 10 years ago. The Netflix playback could of course be a glitch on the network somewhere, but it's the first time that I've had any Netflix issues since using it. The fact that the box lost a programme that it was obviously recording, the first in a very long time, and the odd power-up issues make me suspicious of the box though. It all seems too coincidental. It was power-cycled about 6 weeks ago when I reorganised my a/v rack layout and had been problem-free until last Tuesday. If I see any more 'no signal' messages I can connect the box to my distribution system which uses a different dish, but the network is shared by several other devices. In any event, I've not seen any issues thus far with other devices connected to the ethernet connection and switch.
It's probably a case of waiting and seeing, but given that the box has been in continuous use for a couple of years (I don't remember when I bought it) I wonder if it's starting to show its age.
Amy thoughts, insights would be gratefully appreciated. As I rely on the PVR I really don't want to waste a lot of time troubleshooting if it is the box -- it's easier just to buy a new one and move on, but I'd rather not do that if I didn't have to.
TIA, Clem
The box seemed to start misbehaving last Tuesday. I watched it wake-up and start recording the last episode of Shetland on BBC1HD at 21:00. I tried to wake the receiver as normal at about 30 minutes in, so that I could watch the start of the programme whilst it was still being recorded. Anyway, rather than waking-up reasonably quickly it seemed to go through a lengthy power-up, and when I checked the library for the Shetland recording there was just an entry for a failed recording at 2100. My first thought was possibly a hard drive issue, but older recordings seemed all present and correct, so I put it down to one of those things, and watched it via my Panasonic Freeview PVR instead (I always dual record stuff on Freeview and Freesat when I can -- nothing like having redundant systems. Too may years working in IT I suppose!)
On Friday, my builder was doing some fascia work above the satellite dish, and I had a mental note to check things later in the day when he'd finished but forgot. This afternoon, I woke the box from standby to add some new timer events. The recording of Rough Justice on More4+1 from Friday evening was in the library, and a check of both tuners showed 100% signal quality and strength on both tuners (my builder is pretty careful around my satellite kit) -- I wasn't expecting any issues. Anyway, this evening I woke the box up. It seemed to take a little longer than normal and when it finally powered-up it was complaining about there being no or weak satellite signal, which I thought odd given that things were fine earlier in the day. I power-cycled the box by pulling the mains power connection, and, on re-boot both tuners showed 100% values, as they did earlier in the day. I then watched the Rough Justice recording from yesterday, which was fine, then jumped to Netflix to play an episode of Orange Is The New Black for SWMBO. Playback started as normal for a couple of seconds then the app. advised that playback wasn't possible at this time and that I should try later. I immediately re-tried and the episode played to completion without further issue.
The lack of signal could perhaps be down to an iffy LNB -- the dish assembly was installed getting on for 10 years ago. The Netflix playback could of course be a glitch on the network somewhere, but it's the first time that I've had any Netflix issues since using it. The fact that the box lost a programme that it was obviously recording, the first in a very long time, and the odd power-up issues make me suspicious of the box though. It all seems too coincidental. It was power-cycled about 6 weeks ago when I reorganised my a/v rack layout and had been problem-free until last Tuesday. If I see any more 'no signal' messages I can connect the box to my distribution system which uses a different dish, but the network is shared by several other devices. In any event, I've not seen any issues thus far with other devices connected to the ethernet connection and switch.
It's probably a case of waiting and seeing, but given that the box has been in continuous use for a couple of years (I don't remember when I bought it) I wonder if it's starting to show its age.
Amy thoughts, insights would be gratefully appreciated. As I rely on the PVR I really don't want to waste a lot of time troubleshooting if it is the box -- it's easier just to buy a new one and move on, but I'd rather not do that if I didn't have to.
TIA, Clem