Do tell for the possible benefit of others. As per the faq's. There's a thread somewhere where the poster had a box with Parental Guidance pin set and the method detailed in the faq's would not reset this. Barry came up with the suggestion to use a Humax reset .hdf which did work. I have a copy of this if any other member comes across the same
To resolve this issue you will need to do a cold re-start. Press and hold down on/off button on set top box, whilst keeping finger on the button un plug from the wall keeping finger on the button leave for 20 seconds plug back in keeping finger on button release finger and box will complete software update and this should resolve the issue. Hi The box will need to be connected to the satellite dish with two cables. If you only use one cable, this feature won’t be available. Pressing standby while recording won’t stop the recording. Your Freesat+ box will go into standby when the recording has finished. Record from when you started watching Your Freesat+ box automatically saves up If you are needing to do a factory reset in order to reset the pin, then obviously this is not going to work. I wonder if anyone knows of a workaround for this one. Some of the Humax boxes have a pin reset "backdoor" that usually involves navigating to the status screen and then pressing sequences of the red/yellow/green/blue buttons. If your box displays the clock 24/7 it means you have turned off the default low power standby mode (any reason why ?). It's possible to force a factory reset using a usb stick. Hopefully Barry will post a link to the file required. Similary a freesat re-tune should also request a postcode, can you check that this happens ?That is why it's very simple to change the hard drive in a Humax PVR. Repassac and I have 2TB drives in our HDR1000S boxes. He was braver than I was and did the upgrade first Reformatting will of course delete all your recordings, this is not the same as a factory reset. Thanks for that, a very clear and easy to understand answer. 2TB hard