Recordings Folder disappearance and various other problem noticed ...

[Mundosat]

Hi
I have been keeping this receiver on testing for the last week or so.

After finally managing to understand the 'general' knowledge of it - thanks to this forums and set it almost all up, I set all recordings as in my old Humax - to see what it does and what happens in general - not just recordings.

Well, guess - as expected I had problems.

1. initially signal was interrupting itself for a few seconds - sometimes up to 6 times in a row and all within the first 1/2 hour
Since it was my relatives keeping an eye, their description was not quite clear.
So I swapped LNB twin from Humax to Gigablue and it seemed to be fixed - I wonder why as in BOTH signal is almost top end and I had NO problems with Humax with either [NEW] LNB connections.

I did reboots etc, in case it needed to reset [whatever!], then I seemed to have found that also HDMI port had problems - NO, it is not broken! I am VERY careful with my gear, I have gear from the 1980s still working fine! I am not a heavy user.

I ended up changing HDMI and all seemed OK

Than last night, I switched TV on Gigablue HDMI [ I prefer manually] and nothing was coming up.
Front LCD was OK - I guess that is the main reason designers have added it - in case something goes wrong the output side, Good!

I did go stupid for 15 minutes, changing cables, inputs, outputs, then I rebooted AGAIN and it was showing normally!
NO, no false contacts on ports or cables - they ALL work, they have been there for a many years untouched and they were new at the timer - I NEVER had a problem before.

This is something it keeps happening 'sporadically'
I will check LNB signal soon as I can and tune the dish/LNB to its best, I know I can improve it, but that is NOT the problem in my view.

I am no expert on Satellite - that is why I am here to ask those of you with a lot of experience in Satellite equipment + OpenVix, but I have 45 years experience in Electronics/Radio Communications etc. - my guess is from experience - I am usually right, sometime wrong of course - I am human not perfect. ;p)

2. Last I decided to watch a programme recorded Gigablue [in parallel with Humax, so I would NOT lose anything], well guess the Media folder was inexistent - it was there night before with ALL recordings.

In the end I had to re-initialise HDD - working at present - I wasted 2 hours last night - I hoped I was relaxing after a hard day at work, instead I had 2 unpaid extra hours!


See below some images shot with my phone - not necessarily timed, but just about some of what happened!






01_ServiceNotFound_SIDnotFoundInPath.jpg02_CheckingFileSystem.jpg03_NoHDDfoundOrInitialised.jpg04_HDD_detected.jpg06_MediaDIRnotWritable.jpg07_SignalIsFine.jpg07_SignalIsFineB.jpg08_ServiceNotFoundUponRecording.jpg

Can anyone 'Expert' shade some light on tall of this?
I am at loss, at present and very deflated.

It feels like I have been forced to go to the gym, when I was already tired.

;p)

Thank you
Mundosat

PS so much for starting to prepare for a quiet retirement [still years ahead!]


ADDITION:
HDD is new and was tested using HD Tune - all green lights - it has not been dropped.
Tomorrow I will take HDD out and test it again and even try to recover Media folder lost files [as a curiosity] - no, I will not touch the system files

... and the last image, I was trying to do a 'quick' recording from that Kids channel and that is what I got.

After I re-initialised HDD all went OK, but still lost media folder recordings!