Faust - 2 hours ago »
It genuinely never ceases to amaze me how often this happens when folk go away.
It used to be a standing joke in our house, we never had a power cut all year, yet a week away in France etc. and we would come home to find our Sky box had failed to record due to a power outage.
Graham T used to work in the power industry, I'm sure they had some sort of spyware on the grid which new when you were away - well Graham?
Mind you, think yourself lucky. Youview has been failing multiple recordings for months whether you are home or away and a fix still hasn't been rolled out.
National Grid only own and operate the 400 and 275kV supergrid system in England and Wales. Once stepped down to a lower voltage it's down to a seperate company depending on your location. Your phone directory should tell you who that is.
Basically if some oik sticks a pick in the 415V supply cable feeding your property they only know if someone tells them.
Afaik all current Humax boxes should survive a power cut (obviously any recording in progress or due to start will be lost). The box will boot for a short period to restart the clock and then go back into sby after power is restored.
There is however a known issue with the 4000T and 5000T boxes if auto padding is enabled. Because the box only wakes up at the scheduled time adjusted by the padding the epg never get's refreshed so every day the epg loses a day and the box will stop recording after 7 days.
The solution is simple set a daily 15 mins power on/off to allow the epg to update and add the extra days data.
| Mon 9 Jul 2018 13:40:03
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