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1. How many crashes has your T2 experienced in a year/s?
  
  Mine lies. Says eight times since December 2019 and only twice this year, the last time in August. But it crashes say once every other month, and crashed and rebooted only last week.
  everthewatcher
  
  Post #2
  
  Nov 22, 2021
  
  Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
2. Assume v. Presume
  
  Agreed. It does amuse when you see a US-sourced prog subtitle a mild UK regional accent when we seem to have no trouble with US ones without them.
  everthewatcher
  
  Post #4,793
  
  Nov 10, 2021
  
  Forum: The Hummy Arms
3. [youtube-dl] Download files from youtube.com or other video platforms
  
  Been meaning to mention it. I was using it via the Youtube-DLG GUI on a PC and found that the YT-DLP fork is, at least for the time being, unaffected*. It's supposed to respond to the Youtube-DL commands so I tried renaming it to would work with Youtube-DLG but it wasn't entirely happy. So I'm...
  everthewatcher
  
  Post #415
  
  Nov 1, 2021
  
  Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
4. Media mistakes
  
  Just remembered there was something similar here when the local council were improving some play facilities nearby. One was a caged netball/football area that was stated as having IIRC 10" wide goals. I pointed out the error in a tongue-in-cheek way but they didn't respond.
  everthewatcher
  
  Post #444
  
  Oct 25, 2021
  
  Forum: The Hummy Arms
5. The Dash Away From (Natural) Gas
  
  That's progress for you. When the cylinder failed here there were a few days with no hot water until I could source the correct size SS one. A like-for-like wouldn't fit due to increased insulation thickness, or rather it would fit but there was no room to make the connections. Washing using...
  everthewatcher
  
  Post #20
  
  Oct 25, 2021
  
  Forum: The Hummy Arms
6. The Dash Away From (Natural) Gas
  
  Ah, OK. Conventional vented hot water cylinder here. I was thinking about a mains pressure one but the old copper cylinder failed unexpectedly so I had to put in a normal but stainless one in a hurry. On the list of things to do is re-route the pipes to/through the kitchen as the hot water...
  everthewatcher
  
  Post #18
  
  Oct 21, 2021
  
  Forum: The Hummy Arms
7. The Dash Away From (Natural) Gas
  
  Particularly if, as here in a '82 link-detached house, it's on a looped service/supply. Main fuse is 80A which was probably OK back in '82 taking taking diversity into account, but these days with >9kW showers it's a different matter. Which is probably why UKPN in their documentation on looped...
  everthewatcher
  
  Post #16
  
  Oct 20, 2021
  
  Forum: The Hummy Arms
8. The Dash Away From (Natural) Gas
  
  That's odd - combi boilers usually have small tank of hot water to bridge the gap until the heat exchanger comes up to temp. However if there's a long pipe run from boiler to outlet then there's your problem. FWIW combi boilers can be used with a conventional hot water store - it just needs an...
  everthewatcher
  
  Post #11
  
  Oct 20, 2021
  
  Forum: The Hummy Arms
9. Remote Control Oddities
  
  EEPROM/Flash, internal to the controller here, although programmable remotes often have an external 8-pin I2C/2-wire EEPROM.
  everthewatcher
  
  Post #9
  
  Oct 13, 2021
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
10. Remote Control Oddities
  
  Not seen that. The dramatic reduction in range is the warning here.
  everthewatcher
  
  Post #6
  
  Oct 13, 2021
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
11. Remote Control Oddities
  
  The second one is weird. I have an NEC-format IR decoder, built for a work project some years back, that would give the codes being sent by the first one but that's no help to you.
  everthewatcher
  
  Post #2
  
  Oct 12, 2021
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
12. Media mistakes
  
  Here's what someone in the know posted about TV subtitles in a forum, though it was ten years ago so things might have changed: [Edit] Further down the same thread someone commented that in a programme about the Nazcar Plains someone clearly had been asked to say something to camera for...
  everthewatcher
  
  Post #427
  
  Oct 11, 2021
  
  Forum: The Hummy Arms
13. New RM-F04 remote: Excellent service from eBay supplier
  
  You had me worried there for a bit until I read further. The one I got has the MDB1.3 sticker, same as the other two I have here. As for the fonts etc, the one that came with a V1 HDR (with horizontal co-ax connectors) has slightly smaller and heavier character/symbols, both on the buttons and...
  everthewatcher
  
  Post #16
  
  Oct 8, 2021
  
  Forum: The Hummy Arms
14. Life of HDDs
  
  D'oh!. Should be Power on Days - I had the feeling that something wasn't right before posting. [Edit] My notes say POH: 2140D.
  everthewatcher
  
  Post #11
  
  Sep 26, 2021
  
  Forum: The Hummy Arms
15. Xmas Already!
  
  When someone referred to a particular Xmas ad last year I had to look online for it.
  everthewatcher
  
  Post #7
  
  Sep 26, 2021
  
  Forum: Freeview
16. Xmas Already!
  
  Don't watch adverts or live TV for that matter. I thought that was the point of a PVR.
  everthewatcher
  
  Post #5
  
  Sep 26, 2021
  
  Forum: Freeview
17. Xmas Already!
  
  On Saturday a local charity shop had a Xmas section complete with small tree, three months before the day. Apparently head office orders.
  everthewatcher
  
  Post #6
  
  Sep 26, 2021
  
  Forum: The Hummy Arms
18. Life of HDDs
  
  Pulled a Samsung satellite box out of a charity shop dumpster as it had '1TB' helpfully marked on its front panel. It's a Seagate Pipeline ST3100424CS with 2140 POH, 351 power cycles, 31340 start-stop cycles but 3287 reallocated sectors so it's just a source of a fridge magnet or two. Not...
  everthewatcher
  
  Post #9
  
  Sep 26, 2021
  
  Forum: The Hummy Arms
19. [CFW 3.13] Customised Firmware v3.13 released.
  
  That's a relief.
  everthewatcher
  
  Post #30
  
  Sep 20, 2021
  
  Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
20. Assume v. Presume
  
  See www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/militate-against-mitigate
  everthewatcher
  
  Post #4,763
  
  Sep 19, 2021
  
  Forum: The Hummy Arms

How many crashes has your T2 experienced in a year/s?

Mine lies. Says eight times since December 2019 and only twice this year, the last time in August. But it crashes say once every other month, and crashed and rebooted only last week.
- everthewatcher
- Post #2
- Nov 22, 2021
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
Assume v. Presume

Agreed. It does amuse when you see a US-sourced prog subtitle a mild UK regional accent when we seem to have no trouble with US ones without them.
- everthewatcher
- Post #4,793
- Nov 10, 2021
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
[youtube-dl] Download files from youtube.com or other video platforms

Been meaning to mention it. I was using it via the Youtube-DLG GUI on a PC and found that the YT-DLP fork is, at least for the time being, unaffected*. It's supposed to respond to the Youtube-DL commands so I tried renaming it to would work with Youtube-DLG but it wasn't entirely happy. So I'm...
- everthewatcher
- Post #415
- Nov 1, 2021
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
Media mistakes

Just remembered there was something similar here when the local council were improving some play facilities nearby. One was a caged netball/football area that was stated as having IIRC 10" wide goals. I pointed out the error in a tongue-in-cheek way but they didn't respond.
- everthewatcher
- Post #444
- Oct 25, 2021
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
The Dash Away From (Natural) Gas

That's progress for you. When the cylinder failed here there were a few days with no hot water until I could source the correct size SS one. A like-for-like wouldn't fit due to increased insulation thickness, or rather it would fit but there was no room to make the connections. Washing using...
- everthewatcher
- Post #20
- Oct 25, 2021
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
The Dash Away From (Natural) Gas

Ah, OK. Conventional vented hot water cylinder here. I was thinking about a mains pressure one but the old copper cylinder failed unexpectedly so I had to put in a normal but stainless one in a hurry. On the list of things to do is re-route the pipes to/through the kitchen as the hot water...
- everthewatcher
- Post #18
- Oct 21, 2021
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
The Dash Away From (Natural) Gas

Particularly if, as here in a '82 link-detached house, it's on a looped service/supply. Main fuse is 80A which was probably OK back in '82 taking taking diversity into account, but these days with >9kW showers it's a different matter. Which is probably why UKPN in their documentation on looped...
- everthewatcher
- Post #16
- Oct 20, 2021
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
The Dash Away From (Natural) Gas

That's odd - combi boilers usually have small tank of hot water to bridge the gap until the heat exchanger comes up to temp. However if there's a long pipe run from boiler to outlet then there's your problem. FWIW combi boilers can be used with a conventional hot water store - it just needs an...
- everthewatcher
- Post #11
- Oct 20, 2021
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
Remote Control Oddities

EEPROM/Flash, internal to the controller here, although programmable remotes often have an external 8-pin I2C/2-wire EEPROM.
- everthewatcher
- Post #9
- Oct 13, 2021
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
Remote Control Oddities

Not seen that. The dramatic reduction in range is the warning here.
- everthewatcher
- Post #6
- Oct 13, 2021
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
Remote Control Oddities

The second one is weird. I have an NEC-format IR decoder, built for a work project some years back, that would give the codes being sent by the first one but that's no help to you.
- everthewatcher
- Post #2
- Oct 12, 2021
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
Media mistakes

Here's what someone in the know posted about TV subtitles in a forum, though it was ten years ago so things might have changed: [Edit] Further down the same thread someone commented that in a programme about the Nazcar Plains someone clearly had been asked to say something to camera for...
- everthewatcher
- Post #427
- Oct 11, 2021
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
New RM-F04 remote: Excellent service from eBay supplier

You had me worried there for a bit until I read further. The one I got has the MDB1.3 sticker, same as the other two I have here. As for the fonts etc, the one that came with a V1 HDR (with horizontal co-ax connectors) has slightly smaller and heavier character/symbols, both on the buttons and...
- everthewatcher
- Post #16
- Oct 8, 2021
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
Life of HDDs

D'oh!. Should be Power on Days - I had the feeling that something wasn't right before posting. [Edit] My notes say POH: 2140D.
- everthewatcher
- Post #11
- Sep 26, 2021
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
Xmas Already!

When someone referred to a particular Xmas ad last year I had to look online for it.
- everthewatcher
- Post #7
- Sep 26, 2021
- Forum: Freeview
Xmas Already!

Don't watch adverts or live TV for that matter. I thought that was the point of a PVR.
- everthewatcher
- Post #5
- Sep 26, 2021
- Forum: Freeview
Xmas Already!

On Saturday a local charity shop had a Xmas section complete with small tree, three months before the day. Apparently head office orders.
- everthewatcher
- Post #6
- Sep 26, 2021
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
Life of HDDs

Pulled a Samsung satellite box out of a charity shop dumpster as it had '1TB' helpfully marked on its front panel. It's a Seagate Pipeline ST3100424CS with 2140 POH, 351 power cycles, 31340 start-stop cycles but 3287 reallocated sectors so it's just a source of a fridge magnet or two. Not...
- everthewatcher
- Post #9
- Sep 26, 2021
- Forum: The Hummy Arms
[CFW 3.13] Customised Firmware v3.13 released.

That's a relief.
- everthewatcher
- Post #30
- Sep 20, 2021
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
Assume v. Presume

See www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/militate-against-mitigate
- everthewatcher
- Post #4,763
- Sep 19, 2021
- Forum: The Hummy Arms