mas220 - 3 mins ago »
Thanks Graham, again much appreciate the advice. Will examine the connections into the dish over the weekend when I’ve got more time. However, having tried to live pause, the unit won’t let me it’s saying “this function doesn’t work whilst retrieving data for time shift buffer”, I’m guessing another indication of a hard drive problem? Not noticed this before although to be fair it’s not often that live pause is used.
Useful advice regarding backup of data, I fear I maybe venturing down this path!!
The time shift buffer file is the area of the hard disk that is constantly continously written and overwritten. Not surpisingly it's the most likely area of the HDD to fail. Pretty certain Humax advice to re-format is likely to work but of course the video partition will also be overwritten. It's an indication that the HDD has some issues.
Foxsat-HDR owners with the Custom Firmware can simply delete the time shift file (0.ts).and simply re-naming it to move it to a different area of the HDD. to force the OS to re-create it , Sadly Humax did not learn from this (bring back BOB-Cat a early contributor to this forum who actually worked for Humax who contributed the fore-runner of ths forum and made the Foxsat-HDR the best Humax Freesat+ pvr ever,
Sadly Freesat decided that the 2nd generation Freesat licensed boxes would allow Humax to build the hardware, and they would build and control the software. The rest is history. The resulting software is still littered with frankly stupid decisions (the order that recordings are presented - ordered by episode number rather than by date/time and recording). They setup their own forum and then ignored postings (even ignoring 100% repeatable issues with the bugs in the software) and even banned posters posting completely reproducible software bugs.
Frankly they have such an arrogant attitude they still can cannot comprehend the the simplest of concepts (the earliest episode of a series regardless of the episode number and broadcaster series number should appear at the top of the list when selecting a series recording based on Time/Date or at least as a display option. Currently the series takes precedence. Unfortunately the broadcasters do not follow the same convention. In a long running serial like the popular soaps Episode 150 broadcast on say 1st Jun 2019 can be followed by episode 1 on the folowing day as the broadcaster resets the eposide number.
Even worse when the broadcasteer actually follows the correct CRID identification.
Eg Multiple series of Father Brown using the same series CRID.
Eg Episode 1 of Series 1 appears first, Episode 6 of series 3 appears last regardless of date. Result a complete shambles. How can we get Freesat to sort out this stupid situation, I for one will approach OFCOM. Anyone else inclined to help and any other suggestions gratefully received.
I do not believe they have any one that actually uses the software like us mere mortals,
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