Recent content by Owen Smith

In my loft I have both! The lighting circuit tap is a single socket and clearly labelled as lighting, it is for the power supplies to my mast head amps. The other one is a double socket I put in on the 20A feed for the air conditioning I had installed 10 years ago. I put the power feed in for...

That has happened to me and it was a bad block on the hard disc causing my HDR Fox T2 to take a very long time to read or write a sector with all the retries. Live TV picture on screen was fine all through this. I resolved it by running fix disk from the maintenance menu which took over sn hour...

It's an Ext3 partition which is a Unix format, Windows doesn't know how to read it. You can download a "Boot Linux from USB stick" image and boot that and copy from this drive to something else, but if you don't use Ext3 you risk losing important metadata or even truncating the file.

It is reported the broadcasters have fixed the PSB2 problem, so @gjf60's issue may never recur.

Buy a second hand HDR Fox T2 on eBay. Across my family there are 4 of them in use and have been since it was a new model around 2010. The custom firmware (documented elsewhere on this forum) adds lots of features including fixdisk, and our accumulated knowledge means a number of hardware issues...

Yes, what channel is the box receiving at the time. If it is something on PSB2 eg ITV1, C4, C5 among many others then we know what the problem is and it will continue to happen until the mux operator stops transmitting invalid EPG data. You can avoid the problem by tuning to a channel on PSB1 or...

And yet we do it all the time at work

Custom firmware can save/restore the recording schedule. It may be able to do some of the rest, I've never investigated.

Correct. I spend half my life writing firmware to handle error cases. Testing them is a pain in the neck as you have to inject errors.

It seems extremely unlikely to me that such a niche function as digital terrestrial TV EPG reception would be handled in hardware. Also the data rate and volume is not significant, so unlike audio and video decoding there is no benefit to doing this in hardware.

Often yes, using something like a CRC on the data. Ethernet works that way for example. But surely the EPG data is handled in firmware?

Ignoring invalid data is standard procedure for network connected devices, we do it all the time at work.

It's obvious how you could ignore these corrupt entries in the firmware, but presumably the HDR Fox T2 does not.

I still use Disable-DSO package (or do I mean Disable-OTA?) with its schedule event creation, so all my HDR Fox T2s power on to channel 250 for 20 mins from 4:20am to 4:40am. Given 250 is on PSB1 that should do the job. I also have a timer wake set from 16:20 to 16:40 every day to BBC1 HD in...

There is a purge button in RS for clearing existing matches. It's done based purely on a textual match, it doesn't remember the particular series it scheduled it only remembers it got a match so doesn't schedule on further matches.