Hej again from Sweden. I have a similar problem with my HDR1000S. It started last week, one tuner reporting No signal or the signal is too weak. I put it down initially to bad weather over the UK as here in Sweden we have had little but sun with the garden suffering as a result. Now I have both channels reporting the same, and I have a quattro LNB which is giving high readings on another tuner. The strange thing is there are recordings both yesterday and today, yet due to the 'No signal' I am not getting the EPG either.
Top quote the King of Siam - 'Is a puzzlement'. I will try the old faithful - disconnect the power supply for a few minutes - jsut to see - and hope.
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HDR1000S tuner 1, 2 or both, showing no sigal.
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| Sun 26 May 2019 14:53:42 #11 |
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Back again. Having disconnected and 'let things cool down, I re-connected and lo and behold - full readings on both tuners. Have to see now if things remain so.
These new-fangled gadjets - performing much the same as Windows. Nothing working, power off, power back on, everything in order. Yet again 'Is a puzzlement', especially when soon knocking up 87!| Sun 26 May 2019 15:23:40 #12 | -
BritVik Nothing working, power off, power back on, everything in order.
Standard operating practice. ;=)
| Sun 26 May 2019 15:51:18 #13 | -
Standard practice maybe, but when the box was still recording yet not showing the EPG, you must agree that it makes one wonder?
| Mon 27 May 2019 18:08:05 #14 | -
BritVik - 1 hour ago »
Standard practice maybe, but when the box was still recording yet not showing the EPG, you must agree that it makes one wonder?Where you by any chance using padding when the box stopped recording and the epg still showed > If so this is a known issue. There is a very simple fix.
The problem is using padding the box instead of waking 15 mins before the programme is due to start wakes up at the scheduled time adjusted by the padding.
As a result the epg never gets a chance to update During this 15 mins the box normally updates the epg.. If you don't manually or auto boot the box on any day, then the epg loses a day every day the box isn't booted.| Mon 27 May 2019 19:18:57 #15 | -
LSHDR - 3 weeks ago » Forgot to mention that I'm an ex TV engineer, back in the 90's, specialising in VCR and satellite receiver repair but that was in another life. The basics are still the same but the modern kit is much more advanced than the stuff I'm more familiar with.
CheersI've replaced capacitors on a few of these boxes, including our own. There are 2 smd 10uF 50V capacitors connected in series, which I presume are on the power feed to the tuners. These have been out of spec on every unit I've looked at.
| Thu 6 Jun 2019 15:42:18 #16 | -
LSHDR - 2 weeks ago »
OK Graham, thanks for that.
I can't say it's clear from the forum that the later boxes have dropped the questionable practice of powering down unused tuners but, as everything I know about the 1000s has been gleaned from this site, my lack of grasping the fine detail is possibly understandable?
If that's the case, the box has to be faulty. There is no rhyme nor reason to it dropping one of the tuners and rebooting is providing the only reliable cure although it's only temporary. It can be stable for anything between 30 minutes and 48 hours so I doubt it's a thermal issue???
I'll keep looking into it and, if I find anything significant, I'll report back here.
Cheers
LyndonIt's the other way round. It's only the latest boxes (FVP- 4000/5000T) that power down unused tuners. If the tuner is not required it seems very sensible not to use it. At the very least it saves power.
None of the twin tuner Humax Freesat+ pvrs from the oldest Foxsat-HDR to the 2nd generation Freesat+ smart boxes ever turned off unused tuners. In order of introduction. All are essentially the same apart from the newer boxes having cut down connections apart from adding WiFi internally.
HDR-1000S. RGB scart output - Proper front display- Conventional shape.
HDR-1010S adds internal WiFi to the HDR-1000S spec.
HDR-1100S retains WiFi but removes the front panel display and RGB scart. Replaces RGB scart with the much inferior composite video (CVBS) using RCA phono output. Case design now resembles a pie dish so not really suitable to stack in a rack especially with the conventional earlier kit like say a HDR-FOX-T2
So the two earlier boxes are both more advanced than the current production model and offer identical performance and vastly superior analogue output quality to those not using a modern TV with HDMI inputs.
All 3 have a enhanced HDMI picture quality when compared to the first generation Foxsat-HDR.
| Thu 6 Jun 2019 18:45:54 #17 |
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