Recent content by Owen Smith

What is wrong with AV2HDR-T2 and what does sidecar do better?

There is some windows tool somewhere, I forget the name, for creating trick play files for import of video into the HDR Fox T2. It started life as a tool for the Foxsat and was extended to support HDR Fox T2.

This was in the analogue days and my brother lives in a valley in Kirkburton with lots of complex hills. He has no line of sight of Emley Moor but the signal strength from Emley is so strong that he got multiple reflections all being received by the crap "low loss" coax buried in his walls that...

I have no idea. I only know there is a tightly packed surface mount PCB in the metal box in the middle. The aim is to allow people to put the aerial up with the MRD installed and then put the power supply in to it later. This is exactly what we did at my brother's house, he put the aerial up...

EDIT: (I thought you wrote "Really?"). I tried it and works as advertised. No there isn't a relay on the PCB.

I have one, but it's an advertised feature that it passes the original signal if the amp is not powered. That is the MRD aka Margin Rising Device aka 13 db amp to you and I that is fitted directly to a Televes DAT75 in my loft, you take the original "bow tie" receiving thing out and insert this...

Oh god don't remind me. I grew up during the 1970s and interference from all sorts of appliances was a constant issue. The hair drier is from the 1990s. That said where mum dries her hair the TV coax runs about 4 feet above her head in the ceiling. If I could have bought something tripled...

Then don't use them again, they've done shoddy work for you. I suppose there is an outside chance they've learned something since then. Given the state it's in I'm surprised it is that recent. It all looks well past its sell by date. This may need a new installation. What state is the aerial...

At my parents it's so the TV still works when my mum uses her hair drier. Without the amp the picture is fine the rest of the time and breaks up into a mess of pixelisation with the hair drier on. This is all with double screened CT100 coax, F connectors on everything and all cabled for digital...

If the signal strength into the amplifier is too high, the amp will be unable to amplify it properly and the signal will clip inside the amplifier leading to distortion. This was very obvious on screen with analogue TV, it's harder to diagnose now with digital. Your signal strengths are high...

I'm still working with C90 compilers at work, with some C99 extensions eg long long for 64 bit integers.

I don't find any difficulty using a USB stick. Also my aunt's HDR Fox T2 has no regular internet connection, I use my iPad Pro as a hot spot to update the packages on her box. But even with a wifi to ethernet device it's a bit temperamental so for the CF I'd rather just use USB stick.

The CF is not in flash though, most of it is on disc which you have just said is blank. This is a blank disc installation case, who cares! Just use a USB stick to update the CF to 3.14 and be done with it. This may require a USB hub on the HD Fox T2.

Blank external storage basically means you don't have CF installed, so of course this won't work. Fresh installs need a USB stick.

The stuff on linked pages about the government pushing for an IP switchover for TV in the early 2030s is a concern. My elderly aunt has no internet and would not be able to cope with it, she would need to be talked through every step of something like power cycling a router (come the inevitable...