Panasonic Hdd Recorder

[Rosie29]

Any thoughts on this please ? I have model DMR-HW220 or DMR-120 with handset (separate from TV handset).
I can watch TV perfectly well via recorder box but the semi circular green button for the Guide does not work so I can't highlight a programme to record it.
All the other functions on the recorder handset work. But if I press the Guide the screen goes black (with sound).
And when it goes black I can't press Return to go back to the picture as I would normally.
Has the button got too squidgy perhaps ? Thanks for any opinions.

[bhg481]

Mine isn't the same model as yours but I can get to the programme guide via the Function Menu. Is yours the same? If so, does it work?

[Rosie29]

Thanks - I'll try.

[Rosie29]

I have got TV guide on function menu but when I tried it the same thing happened - screen goes black. Good thought though. Maybe something wrong in the box.

[Buenchico]

Your post reads to me as if there's a fault with the circuit board connection under the green button, causing it to send the wrong command to your HDD recorder.

A new remote control, at just seven quid, shouldn't break the bank!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/353083783179?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&;mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&;campid=5338345293&customid=353083783179_2&toolid=11000

[Buenchico]

Oops! Crossed posts!

Your subsidiary post now suggests that the problem isn't specifically related to the green button, so maybe it's not a circuit fault beneath it after all. It might still be worth trying a new remote control anyway though.

Otherwise, as you say, the fault could lie within the main device. That would probably mean that it's time to buy a new PVR :(

[Rosie29]

Thanks v much both.

[bhg481]

I can't remember exactly how to do it but there is a method for setting recordings manually (at least on my model). It's the old method of recording ie, you can set it to record channel 1 at 8pm for 30 mins, so has the disadvantage that it doesn't shift the recording to match the programme if it's broadcast at a slightly different time to that advertised.

[Rosie29]

Cheers bhg.

[Buenchico]

For instructions on Bhg's recording method, see the right-hand column here:
https://www.manualslib.com/manual/768509/Panasonic-Dmr-Hw220dmr-Hw220.html?page=28#manual

[Rosie29]

You are a star B !

[bhg481]

Just a thought, Rosie, is your firmware up-to-date? You can view the level and update it via the Function Menu and that might be all it takes to get things working properly.

[Rosie29]

No idea bhg but I'll certainly look. Many thanks . I'm finding out all sorts of things on this topic I never knew before !