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      e2fsck hang on /dev/sda2

      The reformat of sda2 was successful. However, I had overlooked the fact that the custom firmware uses the /mod directory on that partition, so I had not backed it up. Once I rebooted the humax worked fine, but the web interface had gone! It was replaced by a friendly invitation to reinstall, so...
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      e2fsck hang on /dev/sda2

      Thanks... I read the original posts on that topic about 3 years ago, but forgot that it mentioned the format command arguments. I tend to go back to linux basics when in doubt, but you have saved me the rest of the work! I was trying to make this (my) thread useful to anyone looking at it...
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      e2fsck hang on /dev/sda2

      I now have only about 8 of the 800 GB left on the disk. I will copy those remaining programs tomorrow morning and then reformat the /dev/sda2 partition when the machine is idle and I have lots of spare time... I want to leave sda1 and sda3 as-is, so will not use the humax disk format "feature"...
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      e2fsck hang on /dev/sda2

      Thanks for letting me know. I expected the encryption to rely only on the machine itself (probably its serial number). However, it would be a real problem if it also depended on the disk drive after discovering I needed to swap the device for a new one! In my case the hdparm statistics show the...
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      e2fsck hang on /dev/sda2

      I've reached the point where I've deleted 1/4 TB of programs, so the disk is now about 60% full. However, e2fsck is still hanging forever at 11%. This makes me think the problem is an undetected loop in the free block chain, because the content of the disk appears to be playable, accessible, and...
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      e2fsck hang on /dev/sda2

      Sorry, no excuse for being lazy. At least the box is now responding to its remote control so I can say that it believes it is running firmware 1.03.12. I hope that makes more sense!
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      e2fsck hang on /dev/sda2

      I know sda1,2 and 3 are not checked automatically, even though tune2fs shows that they should be. I've been negligent and haven't run the maintenance mode command "1 - Check and repair hard disk (fix-disk)" for about a year. My humax has recently been hanging, and ignoring all remote control...
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      Humax HDR-Fox T2 moved from UK to Australia

      I don't understand this at all. I can (still) successfully sign on to the forum. I even added some location data to my forum account. When I went to the link referenced by Black Hole, that took me to my own account and showed me the changes I had just made. Unless someone has just kindly...
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      Humax HDR-Fox T2 moved from UK to Australia

      There is another small quirk to investigate. My hidden menu time zone is UTC+10 with no daylight saving. (Queensland voters have a semi-religious belief their curtains would fade in the summer if the state were to adopt standard East coast time.) When viewing any channel, the "info" on-screen...
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      Humax HDR-Fox T2 moved from UK to Australia

      Success! I was back in Brisbane at the weekend and so used dvbsnoop to capture the EPGs on all 5 multiplexes. I then compared the values with those from the Sunshine Coast. I replaced the usTsId and usOrgNetId values in TBL_TS. I then replaced the usTsId and usOnId values in TBL_SVC. I now have...
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      Humax HDR-Fox T2 moved from UK to Australia

      This was my original point, which I will return to eventually. Basically, the hidden menu "country" parameters for Australia are totally broken, so you have to set the country to Germany before it will successfully autotune in Brisbane. It works in Brisbane because the Germany parameters use...
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      Humax HDR-Fox T2 moved from UK to Australia

      Yuk! I haven't been there before... "select" isn't the right word. I "inherited" them from a successful auto-scan when in Brisbane. Having returned home to the Sunshine Coast I did not realise their significance for EPG data, so I left the existing (Brisbane) values alone while hacking...
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      Humax HDR-Fox T2 moved from UK to Australia

      Thanks very much for explaining how it works in the UK. Clearly, my presumption was wrong. Equally clearly, the co-operative scheme you describe has significant advantages (for the ordinary user) over the piecemeal scheme adopted in Australia. There is obviously a trade-off in the time taken to...
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      Humax HDR-Fox T2 moved from UK to Australia

      This is summary of my knowledge and the current status of the missing Electronic Program Guide my humax HDR Fox-T2: In the UK it "just worked". From the hidden menu I presume the choice of BBC as "provider" is relevant. From folklore I have always believed the EPG data for all free-to-air UK...
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      Humax HDR-Fox T2 moved from UK to Australia

      Well, after spending some time updating the data for every channel in the five multiplexes, my HDR Fox-T2 successfully tunes into all 31 channels. I made a few typos, but was able to correct the channels.db records and reduce the number of "unavailable or scrambled" stations. Despite my worries...
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      Humax HDR-Fox T2 moved from UK to Australia

      I compared the scan data from both Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast, and also with channels.db from Brisbane. I've read the earlier posts carefully, although there is still a lot I don't understand. I decided to hack the channels.db down to just the single ABC multiplex, which has four TV and...
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      Humax HDR-Fox T2 moved from UK to Australia

      I had to go to Brisbane for a couple of days, so I took my humax with me. It still believes it is in Germany, so it successfully auto-tuned all the local stations. I have off-loaded copies of all the .db files, and channel.db is nicely populated. I have dumped TABLE_TS and TABLE_SVC, but haven't...
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      Humax HDR-Fox T2 moved from UK to Australia

      That is very helpful af123, so thank you. It is 0045 January 1st here, so I'm just back from the fireworks and going to bed. I will try to find time to hack something similar to your samples tomorrow, probably for just one multiplex to begin with. I will let you know how I get on. Once my humax...
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      Humax HDR-Fox T2 moved from UK to Australia

      Thanks very much, af123. I appreciate your suggestion, but my current channel.db has a fully defined schema, but is basically empty. That means I don't know which table should hold the scan command data, and in which format. Could you give me some clues? Stupidly, I didn't make a backup from...
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      Humax HDR-Fox T2 moved from UK to Australia

      If you look at the transmitter data for Brisbane in my first post, you will see that all the multiplexes transmit in the FM frequency range, i.e. below about 250 MHz. When I use the linux scan program with my Hauppauge DTV on the Sunshine Coast, it picks up a strong signal from the Nambour...
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      e2fsck hang on /dev/sda2

      The reformat of sda2 was successful. However, I had overlooked the fact that the custom firmware uses the /mod directory on that partition, so I had not backed it up. Once I rebooted the humax worked fine, but the web interface had gone! It was replaced by a friendly invitation to reinstall, so...
    2. B

      e2fsck hang on /dev/sda2

      Thanks... I read the original posts on that topic about 3 years ago, but forgot that it mentioned the format command arguments. I tend to go back to linux basics when in doubt, but you have saved me the rest of the work! I was trying to make this (my) thread useful to anyone looking at it...
    3. B

      e2fsck hang on /dev/sda2

      I now have only about 8 of the 800 GB left on the disk. I will copy those remaining programs tomorrow morning and then reformat the /dev/sda2 partition when the machine is idle and I have lots of spare time... I want to leave sda1 and sda3 as-is, so will not use the humax disk format "feature"...
    4. B

      e2fsck hang on /dev/sda2

      Thanks for letting me know. I expected the encryption to rely only on the machine itself (probably its serial number). However, it would be a real problem if it also depended on the disk drive after discovering I needed to swap the device for a new one! In my case the hdparm statistics show the...
    5. B

      e2fsck hang on /dev/sda2

      I've reached the point where I've deleted 1/4 TB of programs, so the disk is now about 60% full. However, e2fsck is still hanging forever at 11%. This makes me think the problem is an undetected loop in the free block chain, because the content of the disk appears to be playable, accessible, and...
    6. B

      e2fsck hang on /dev/sda2

      Sorry, no excuse for being lazy. At least the box is now responding to its remote control so I can say that it believes it is running firmware 1.03.12. I hope that makes more sense!
    7. B

      e2fsck hang on /dev/sda2

      I know sda1,2 and 3 are not checked automatically, even though tune2fs shows that they should be. I've been negligent and haven't run the maintenance mode command "1 - Check and repair hard disk (fix-disk)" for about a year. My humax has recently been hanging, and ignoring all remote control...
    8. B

      Humax HDR-Fox T2 moved from UK to Australia

      I don't understand this at all. I can (still) successfully sign on to the forum. I even added some location data to my forum account. When I went to the link referenced by Black Hole, that took me to my own account and showed me the changes I had just made. Unless someone has just kindly...
    9. B

      Humax HDR-Fox T2 moved from UK to Australia

      There is another small quirk to investigate. My hidden menu time zone is UTC+10 with no daylight saving. (Queensland voters have a semi-religious belief their curtains would fade in the summer if the state were to adopt standard East coast time.) When viewing any channel, the "info" on-screen...
    10. B

      Humax HDR-Fox T2 moved from UK to Australia

      Success! I was back in Brisbane at the weekend and so used dvbsnoop to capture the EPGs on all 5 multiplexes. I then compared the values with those from the Sunshine Coast. I replaced the usTsId and usOrgNetId values in TBL_TS. I then replaced the usTsId and usOnId values in TBL_SVC. I now have...
    11. B

      Humax HDR-Fox T2 moved from UK to Australia

      This was my original point, which I will return to eventually. Basically, the hidden menu "country" parameters for Australia are totally broken, so you have to set the country to Germany before it will successfully autotune in Brisbane. It works in Brisbane because the Germany parameters use...
    12. B

      Humax HDR-Fox T2 moved from UK to Australia

      Yuk! I haven't been there before... "select" isn't the right word. I "inherited" them from a successful auto-scan when in Brisbane. Having returned home to the Sunshine Coast I did not realise their significance for EPG data, so I left the existing (Brisbane) values alone while hacking...
    13. B

      Humax HDR-Fox T2 moved from UK to Australia

      Thanks very much for explaining how it works in the UK. Clearly, my presumption was wrong. Equally clearly, the co-operative scheme you describe has significant advantages (for the ordinary user) over the piecemeal scheme adopted in Australia. There is obviously a trade-off in the time taken to...
    14. B

      Humax HDR-Fox T2 moved from UK to Australia

      This is summary of my knowledge and the current status of the missing Electronic Program Guide my humax HDR Fox-T2: In the UK it "just worked". From the hidden menu I presume the choice of BBC as "provider" is relevant. From folklore I have always believed the EPG data for all free-to-air UK...
    15. B

      Humax HDR-Fox T2 moved from UK to Australia

      Well, after spending some time updating the data for every channel in the five multiplexes, my HDR Fox-T2 successfully tunes into all 31 channels. I made a few typos, but was able to correct the channels.db records and reduce the number of "unavailable or scrambled" stations. Despite my worries...
    16. B

      Humax HDR-Fox T2 moved from UK to Australia

      I compared the scan data from both Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast, and also with channels.db from Brisbane. I've read the earlier posts carefully, although there is still a lot I don't understand. I decided to hack the channels.db down to just the single ABC multiplex, which has four TV and...
    17. B

      Humax HDR-Fox T2 moved from UK to Australia

      I had to go to Brisbane for a couple of days, so I took my humax with me. It still believes it is in Germany, so it successfully auto-tuned all the local stations. I have off-loaded copies of all the .db files, and channel.db is nicely populated. I have dumped TABLE_TS and TABLE_SVC, but haven't...
    18. B

      Humax HDR-Fox T2 moved from UK to Australia

      That is very helpful af123, so thank you. It is 0045 January 1st here, so I'm just back from the fireworks and going to bed. I will try to find time to hack something similar to your samples tomorrow, probably for just one multiplex to begin with. I will let you know how I get on. Once my humax...
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      Humax HDR-Fox T2 moved from UK to Australia

      Thanks very much, af123. I appreciate your suggestion, but my current channel.db has a fully defined schema, but is basically empty. That means I don't know which table should hold the scan command data, and in which format. Could you give me some clues? Stupidly, I didn't make a backup from...
    20. B

      Humax HDR-Fox T2 moved from UK to Australia

      If you look at the transmitter data for Brisbane in my first post, you will see that all the multiplexes transmit in the FM frequency range, i.e. below about 250 MHz. When I use the linux scan program with my Hauppauge DTV on the Sunshine Coast, it picks up a strong signal from the Nambour...
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