DJP
Regular Member
- Joined
- Jul 17, 2008
- Messages
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- Age
- 78
- My Satellite Setup
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Sharp Aquos
Panasonic HD DVD recorder
Sky+HD receiver
Humax Icord receiver FTA DigitalSD with hard drive
Topfield TF 4000 PVR
- My Location
- Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset
Hi there,
It's an age since I posted on here; the main reason being for my move from southern Germany to the West Country in GB.
Since I've had my Humax it has actually been very rarely used.
In Germany it was set up to get programs from GB & it was actually bought in a panic because my GB contact for my Sky subscriptions started throwing a wobbler about leaving Sky-------------but hey he didn't so my Digibox remained my main source for my daily dose of British TV.
Well last year here in the West Country I had an additional dish fitted so that I could use the Humax to get German Satellite TV.
Yes I know, there's no pleasing some people is there?
Everything worked fine until about a week ago when I noticed that the Humax display showed "EPG 40%" constantly.
(I am used to regular EPG updates automatically occurring & being displayed fairly frequently)
That frustrated me so I used the mains switch on the back panel to switch it off.
Some days later I switched it back on & everything appeared to be working as I would expect it to; well until that "EPG 40%" message reappeared.
So off it was switched again!
Once again, a few days later it was switched back on but "no signal" was being received.
The media I had stored on the hard drive replayed but nothing from the Satellite.
It also seemed that all functions could be activated via the remote but a channel search was not possible due to the apparent lack of signal.
A couple of days later I used the back panel mains switch again to switch the Humax on.
The On/Off switch on the front panel was illuminated showing that it was powered up; but that was all that was working.
It did not respond the remote control regardless of new batteries being fitted.
The signal from the Satellite dish was/is strong.
So it seems that my expensive Humax has died on me.
Luckily I still have my "Topfield TF 4000 PVR" which has been pressed back into service.
Unfortunately the Topfield has failed to capture all of the German FTA channels that are available during the automatic channel scan.
Maybe it needs a software update but when I tried that I got the message "not available"
Fortunately I have a friend in Germany who uses the same model on a daily basis & I'm hoping he will be able to sort me out with possible new settings but if anyone has any tips, I'd be very grateful!
So back to my expensive, all singin' an' dancin' Humax!
Does anyone have any ideas of what may have gone wrong?
More importantly ideas of how it can be fixed.
If it's not a DIY fix, where could I get it fixed without having to pay out an arm & a leg?
Thanks in advance for any help you guys may be able to offer & remember KISS, Keep It Simple Stupid & no techy abreviations that I won't understand please
Cheers
John
It's an age since I posted on here; the main reason being for my move from southern Germany to the West Country in GB.
Since I've had my Humax it has actually been very rarely used.
In Germany it was set up to get programs from GB & it was actually bought in a panic because my GB contact for my Sky subscriptions started throwing a wobbler about leaving Sky-------------but hey he didn't so my Digibox remained my main source for my daily dose of British TV.
Well last year here in the West Country I had an additional dish fitted so that I could use the Humax to get German Satellite TV.
Yes I know, there's no pleasing some people is there?
Everything worked fine until about a week ago when I noticed that the Humax display showed "EPG 40%" constantly.
(I am used to regular EPG updates automatically occurring & being displayed fairly frequently)
That frustrated me so I used the mains switch on the back panel to switch it off.
Some days later I switched it back on & everything appeared to be working as I would expect it to; well until that "EPG 40%" message reappeared.
So off it was switched again!
Once again, a few days later it was switched back on but "no signal" was being received.
The media I had stored on the hard drive replayed but nothing from the Satellite.
It also seemed that all functions could be activated via the remote but a channel search was not possible due to the apparent lack of signal.
A couple of days later I used the back panel mains switch again to switch the Humax on.
The On/Off switch on the front panel was illuminated showing that it was powered up; but that was all that was working.
It did not respond the remote control regardless of new batteries being fitted.
The signal from the Satellite dish was/is strong.
So it seems that my expensive Humax has died on me.
Luckily I still have my "Topfield TF 4000 PVR" which has been pressed back into service.
Unfortunately the Topfield has failed to capture all of the German FTA channels that are available during the automatic channel scan.
Maybe it needs a software update but when I tried that I got the message "not available"
Fortunately I have a friend in Germany who uses the same model on a daily basis & I'm hoping he will be able to sort me out with possible new settings but if anyone has any tips, I'd be very grateful!
So back to my expensive, all singin' an' dancin' Humax!
Does anyone have any ideas of what may have gone wrong?
More importantly ideas of how it can be fixed.
If it's not a DIY fix, where could I get it fixed without having to pay out an arm & a leg?
Thanks in advance for any help you guys may be able to offer & remember KISS, Keep It Simple Stupid & no techy abreviations that I won't understand please
Cheers
John