Foxlink works very well, and fine for SD or HD recordings - originally tried a media player and raspberry Pi I had before buying the HD. The HD will play either OK and if connected to the CRT will just downscale, butwith the better HD picture quality - Main TV is still 32" SD resolution panel...
I gave up on the pi after various goes with it, worked OK to the Humax but was too slow, and frankly unreliable for connecting and too complicated to explain you can't fast forward, or skip through programs etc. so ended up with a HD-FOX-T2 instead and perfect, easy access through custom...
I suppose I really should set encryption on the powerline adapters ... or the outside power socket on the front of the house is effectively an open network socket too! I wonder if anyone has tested how far these things go, and whether the signal can get beyond the incoming meter?
I gave up on wireless for any thing other than phone/tablet ages ago though didn't try with the humax, I didn't have the option to lay Cat-5 everywhere have tried a few different "home-plug" systems and this one is working very well at the moment...
I would have thought a script ran at OS level could monitor IP address of 0.0.0.0 and refresh dhcp request rather than trying to do it through remote control presses into the GUI? Any reason you can't just run a fixed IP on it?
Amazing, is there any stopping this guy :-) Will have a look when home later.... specific buttons I want to 'adjust' on there, a) to disable Menu for now, and b) because we have frankly worn out a few buttons such as "media".
Thankyou.
Steve
Hmm, interesting one .... presumably then technically you could disable the use of various buttons, or indeed re-map them then too? e.g. ignore Menu button to stop people fiddling (yes I know can set a PIN etc.)... or make button "X" to "Y"?
I haven't and don't suppose it causes any issues as you say, and what af123 etc. have done is amazing. Things aren't 100% known, I assume, from having seen the Humax source code, or to know what the authors at Humax may put in the next update but are best-guess from observations about how it...
If you are going to be pedantic here if the humaxtv process did use the fact that the file wasn't there to process a new one then surely technically it could also check between the web-if deleting the old one and putting a new one in it's place and decide to add one too...
I guess we will find...
OK so that file having looked quickly is:
00 00 00 FF
the whole way through.... so presumably 4 bytes per pixel RR GG BB + level
Only tool I had to hand here was to replace whole file with one byte so replacing everything with BB and a murky grey shows on telly....
Shouldn't be too...
Yes I was trying that too as there is an amount of symmetry of the bytes in there... now if I could find a few thm files that happened to have recorded an obvious pattern or solid shape, or even a black and white program credits or the like would help but stuck on paid work things at the mo!
The thm file doesn't seem to be any "normal" format looking at it with hex editor, odd choice of theirs! Suppose then logically a roundabout way to get a thm file would be to make a ts cut off with the first frame being the one you want for a thumbnail, or even just a couple of frames...
Judging by our box showing "playing" two programs earlier while I could here the kids watching something else after I flaggedf a load for auto-shrink and auto-decrypt is it is showing those file operations.
BTW they also said this specifically in an email relating to the purchase of the HD.... the HD has the "new" portal layout that the HDR got on this release too.
"Regarding the Apps via the Portal, we will be updating the HDR-FOX T2 to support additional apps later this year, we are waiting...
Just taken delivery of an HD FOX-T2 after fiddling for far too long with the slowness of a raspberry pi for remotely watching upstairs from the existing HDR.... considering the hardware it does what it does remarkably well, but doesn't go down too well when it crashes 55 minutes into an hour...
Try typing in \\192.168.x.x or whatever the IP of your humax is ( I assume you fixed the IP on the humax not just dhcp) in the Start | run box. If that can connect to it then you should see the shares from where you can map your drive or access it with the unc.
Likewise from a cmd.exe prompt...
I was more thinking mostly about the approx. 4:1 space saving, though the bit rate of some SD channels is so low anyway I don't know what the reduction at a sensible MP4 rate would be? .... so is that 3-4 fps (almost usable!) or 3-4 seconds per frame? If it could still keep the program info...
Thanks, thought as much, just wanted to make sure. Yes I do use the excellent facility to save the last watched iPlayer stream too was thinking of the 75 episodes of Home and Away sitting on the box etc but will just drop them off onto USB drives anyway, or get around to putting a 1Tb or bigger...
Foxlink works very well, and fine for SD or HD recordings - originally tried a media player and raspberry Pi I had before buying the HD. The HD will play either OK and if connected to the CRT will just downscale, butwith the better HD picture quality - Main TV is still 32" SD resolution panel...
I gave up on the pi after various goes with it, worked OK to the Humax but was too slow, and frankly unreliable for connecting and too complicated to explain you can't fast forward, or skip through programs etc. so ended up with a HD-FOX-T2 instead and perfect, easy access through custom...
I suppose I really should set encryption on the powerline adapters ... or the outside power socket on the front of the house is effectively an open network socket too! I wonder if anyone has tested how far these things go, and whether the signal can get beyond the incoming meter?
I gave up on wireless for any thing other than phone/tablet ages ago though didn't try with the humax, I didn't have the option to lay Cat-5 everywhere have tried a few different "home-plug" systems and this one is working very well at the moment...
I would have thought a script ran at OS level could monitor IP address of 0.0.0.0 and refresh dhcp request rather than trying to do it through remote control presses into the GUI? Any reason you can't just run a fixed IP on it?
Amazing, is there any stopping this guy :-) Will have a look when home later.... specific buttons I want to 'adjust' on there, a) to disable Menu for now, and b) because we have frankly worn out a few buttons such as "media".
Thankyou.
Steve
Hmm, interesting one .... presumably then technically you could disable the use of various buttons, or indeed re-map them then too? e.g. ignore Menu button to stop people fiddling (yes I know can set a PIN etc.)... or make button "X" to "Y"?
I haven't and don't suppose it causes any issues as you say, and what af123 etc. have done is amazing. Things aren't 100% known, I assume, from having seen the Humax source code, or to know what the authors at Humax may put in the next update but are best-guess from observations about how it...
If you are going to be pedantic here if the humaxtv process did use the fact that the file wasn't there to process a new one then surely technically it could also check between the web-if deleting the old one and putting a new one in it's place and decide to add one too...
I guess we will find...
OK so that file having looked quickly is:
00 00 00 FF
the whole way through.... so presumably 4 bytes per pixel RR GG BB + level
Only tool I had to hand here was to replace whole file with one byte so replacing everything with BB and a murky grey shows on telly....
Shouldn't be too...
Yes I was trying that too as there is an amount of symmetry of the bytes in there... now if I could find a few thm files that happened to have recorded an obvious pattern or solid shape, or even a black and white program credits or the like would help but stuck on paid work things at the mo!
The thm file doesn't seem to be any "normal" format looking at it with hex editor, odd choice of theirs! Suppose then logically a roundabout way to get a thm file would be to make a ts cut off with the first frame being the one you want for a thumbnail, or even just a couple of frames...
Judging by our box showing "playing" two programs earlier while I could here the kids watching something else after I flaggedf a load for auto-shrink and auto-decrypt is it is showing those file operations.
BTW they also said this specifically in an email relating to the purchase of the HD.... the HD has the "new" portal layout that the HDR got on this release too.
"Regarding the Apps via the Portal, we will be updating the HDR-FOX T2 to support additional apps later this year, we are waiting...
Just taken delivery of an HD FOX-T2 after fiddling for far too long with the slowness of a raspberry pi for remotely watching upstairs from the existing HDR.... considering the hardware it does what it does remarkably well, but doesn't go down too well when it crashes 55 minutes into an hour...
Try typing in \\192.168.x.x or whatever the IP of your humax is ( I assume you fixed the IP on the humax not just dhcp) in the Start | run box. If that can connect to it then you should see the shares from where you can map your drive or access it with the unc.
Likewise from a cmd.exe prompt...
I was more thinking mostly about the approx. 4:1 space saving, though the bit rate of some SD channels is so low anyway I don't know what the reduction at a sensible MP4 rate would be? .... so is that 3-4 fps (almost usable!) or 3-4 seconds per frame? If it could still keep the program info...
Thanks, thought as much, just wanted to make sure. Yes I do use the excellent facility to save the last watched iPlayer stream too was thinking of the 75 episodes of Home and Away sitting on the box etc but will just drop them off onto USB drives anyway, or get around to putting a 1Tb or bigger...
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