Recent content by rbrian

That's why my friend had his fixed, but he lost all his recordings. Also, I don't think it's related to the other intermittent problems, and I've had so many failed boxes that I no longer have any confidence in their products. All I want is a way to watch what I recorded - but it doesn't look...

Oops, I meant .HTS not .HTM - that's the big one, many of them gigabytes. I think you're right about the encryption; at least that's what I've read everywhere I've looked. Would it work if I copied the files to a USB stick?

Well, it finally died. Not the hard drive, the box. It forgot it had a hard drive, losing all my recordings. I replaced the drive, and it didn't recognise it had one - must be a hardware fault with the motherboard. Both drives work perfectly in my PC, and the recordings are all there - but...

It's not my first choice, but my experiences with faulty set top boxes have driven me to try something - anything! - else. What annoys me most about this is that it didn't have to be that way. I'm a natural optimist; an idealist, and therefore permanently disappointed.

Yep, you're right. That's why I'm going for an open Linux based system, with plenty of enthusiasts fixing problems as they go along. Designers could make better decisions though, this problem with the remote app causing lockups, for instance - I had custom firmware years ago which used a...

Nothing else electronic has died! Not even my PC, which is on all day, running BOINC, so working hard, and even a really impressive lightning storm which caused a power cut didn't worry it. No overhead lines, I live in a new build estate. My original box did move house, I thought that might...

I had an HDR2000T, whose hard drive died. I replaced it with an HDR-FOX T2 - whose hard drive died. I replaced the hard drive, and installed custom firmware, so I can access recordings on my home network. Then the HDMI port developed a loose connection, so it only worked if it was waggled just...

I turned off my freeview box before changing the channel on my new freesat box. I should have turned it off at the wall, because I managed to change both boxes into channel 2! Ok then, thought I, I'll turn off the freesat box at the wall, and use the freesat remote to put the freeview box back...

Live TV is and always has been OK. I found encheck, which runs from WebIF, and reports 3 files with the wrong flag. All 3 of them are old, and play ok. There are actually around 50 which fail to play! I seem to remember a fix to do with sidecar files which worked in the past with those...

I upgraded to 1.03.12/3.00 this morning, and the only HD recording today works fine. I guess that would do much of the same stuff as a factory reset. Now, assuming new recordings will be ok, how can I recover the old ones?

Thanks! It's easy when you know how! The output looks fine to me. I also attached some more details about the hard drive, but I don't really understand what it's saying. I have to go to work now, I'll do some more testing this evening. I discovered last night that SD recordings play...

Now it keeps saying the channel is unavailable or scrambled. How do I do more advanced testing? Is that a command line thing? I couldn't find anything else in WebIF. I did indeed fit the drive myself. It's the model recommended on a guide I found, but I didn't do anything special - plugged it...

For the last two weeks, my box has had trouble playing back both recordings and delayed live tv. After about 15 minites, it'll freeze for a couple of seconds, and then carry on playing, but not from the point where it froze - it'll jump forward however long it froze. Live tv is ok, which to my...

It'll be ok for a while - 500gb was enough before HD became commonplace. 2tb should suffice until 4k replaces HD, except if I'm away for more than a week, in which case I transfer existing recordings to an external drive.

I changed the hard drive for a new 2Tb one a couple of months ago, because 500Mb just isn't enough. I really hope that isn't failing already! It seems to be working ok now, touch wood. I need to configure Sweeper again and then I'll be all set.