We have two Humax PVRs and use the newer one most of the time as it
can record two channels and has more disk space. However just
occasionally we use the old one to record a third channel etc.

Just recently (like yesterday) we tried this and it seemed a little
confused about the channels when we turned it on so we did the obvious
thing and told it to rescan.

It dies at the second multiplex it finds saying that there are 19 more
channels than it can accomodate, this doesn't actually appear to be
true, it's certainly very confused about things.

Has anyone else seen this problem? Is it software, or is the old
Humax broken, or what?

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Chris Green

On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 17:07:51 +0000, wrote:

We have two Humax PVRs and use the newer one most of the time as it
can record two channels and has more disk space. However just
occasionally we use the old one to record a third channel etc.

Just recently (like yesterday) we tried this and it seemed a little
confused about the channels when we turned it on so we did the obvious
thing and told it to rescan.

It dies at the second multiplex it finds saying that there are 19 more
channels than it can accomodate, this doesn't actually appear to be
true, it's certainly very confused about things.

Has anyone else seen this problem? Is it software, or is the old
Humax broken, or what?

Without wishing to be obvious are you doing a full rescan rather than
trying to add channels?

Have you tried a rescan with the aerial unplugged (to ensure
everything is cleared) then scanning again?

Could you be getting signals from multiple transmitters? If so, look
at a website such as http://www.ukfree.tv/ to identify the correct
transmitter than manually scan for the relevant multiplexes only.

Scott wrote:
On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 17:07:51 +0000, wrote:

We have two Humax PVRs and use the newer one most of the time as it
can record two channels and has more disk space. However just
occasionally we use the old one to record a third channel etc.

Just recently (like yesterday) we tried this and it seemed a little
confused about the channels when we turned it on so we did the obvious
thing and told it to rescan.

It dies at the second multiplex it finds saying that there are 19 more
channels than it can accomodate, this doesn't actually appear to be
true, it's certainly very confused about things.

Has anyone else seen this problem? Is it software, or is the old
Humax broken, or what?

Without wishing to be obvious are you doing a full rescan rather than
trying to add channels?

Yes. However it turns out that a factory reset has sorted the problem.

--
Chris Green