Hi, first post, so sorry if I’m in the wrong place, asking something stupid, etc. etc. Please point me in the right direction if I am.
Ok, so I’m using a Humax 9200T, and Windows 7, and I have the following story…
I’ve just completed the (http://myhumax.org/wiki/index.php/Son_t_9200T_New_Cable_Modification)
modification to connect directly to the harddrive using the USB connector. I’m a software developer, and I’ve built a few PCs in my time, so I’m reasonably ok on what I’m doing. And I'm fairly sure the cable mod itself is working fine. I have, however, had some interesting experiences. I wonder if you could shed any light on these?
To start off, I put the Hummy on standby, and ran HummyReadFiles (v0.89 – I have since noticed there is a 0.94 so I will try that next, but I’ll carry on here anyway for now). The first time I ran this, it gave me an error, saying that it didn’t recognise the disk as being a hummy disk. I tried disk numbers 1 and 2, and got the same error on both. I tried running a couple of the other programs (HumaxRW and Humaxcheck(?)) without much success, but then I tried HummyReadFiles again and it worked. So I copied something off and that worked too and everything was great.
After I’d disconnected, I turned the hummy back on and I noticed that I couldn’t bring up my list of recordings. I turned it off (with the remote) then back on again and everything looked ok.
Later that day I decided to copy off a bunch of stuff, so I put the hummy on standby again and ran HummyReadFiles. Again, first time it didn’t work but the second time it did. I selected about 20 files and ran.
When they finished copying, I went to disconnect the drive, but there was no icon in the systray to do this. I was in a bit of a hurry because I knew a scheduled recording was going to start in a couple of minutes, so I just disconnected the cable, then I turned the hummy off at the switch, waited a couple of seconds and booted it up again.
This is where it got interesting. I couldn’t get my list of recordings up again (I use the button that’s under the slide off cover at the bottom of the remote). So I thought I’d just go through the menus and see my recordings that way. When I pressed menu, however, the menus were different. The one where you can go to view your recorded programs (and where I usually go to see how much disk space I have left) was missing. Stranger still, there was a new menu at the bottom, called Games, which I’ve never seen before. I pressed this and a few games titles appeared. I went no further down this road.
The upshot of this was that I had no access at all to any of my recorded programs – the menu item wasn’t there and the button at the bottom of the remote didn’t work. I decided to turn it off and on again (yes, I do work in IT ). I did this with the remote (not the power switch), and when it came back up again, my menus were restored and I could see my recordings again (and no Games).
So far, so good (although strange). However, the program that was supposed to now be recording had not started recording. I scheduled another, later one, and that did not start recording either. I pressed record to record something manually, and that worked, and after doing that, another scheduled program recorded as required.
So I seem to be back on track as far as the hummy itself is concerned.
As for the files I copied off, there were, as I said, about 20. About half of these play, and the other half don’t. In explorer, which can display the running time of video files, the ones which don’t play have no running time displayed (which makes sense). There is one file, however, which does play, but explorer displays a running time of 0:00:00.
So I’m confused. I’ve used HumaxMediaController in the past and this has worked ok, but of course it is very slow. I’m loving the hard work you’ve put into this, so I’d really like to iron out these problems, or at least understand a little about what is happening. But I think I’m still at the beginning of the learning curve here!
