There is a detailed article here from @Black Hole on how to swap hard discs between HDR Fox T2s: https://hummy.tv/forum/threads/hard-drive-swap.9928/post-146942
@jalba I still think your simplest option is to buy an HDR Fox T2 on ebay, put your hard disc in it, install the custom firmware that you will find documented on this site (it's really easy), and use the custom firmware webUI to change the encryption key of the new box to what your old one used...
Question for @jalba: how many of the recordings you want to copy were from HD (High Definition) channels? If the answer is "none" then this gets simpler because only HD recordings are encrypted on the HDR Fox T2. At that point you only need to get the files off the disc.
I will remind people of this statement in the original posting: "I need straightforward and reasonably simple step-by-step instructions, please, because I have only basic technical know-how."
My reading suggests to me that buying a second hand HDR Fox T2 and transplanting the old hard disc into...
I knew there was something I'd forgotten for the encryption key.
I was aware it is possible to decrypt the files offline on a computer but I had completely forgotten the details.
Don't throw the old HDR Fox T2 away yet, you need to know it's ethernet address to work out the encryption key it used. This is documented somewhere on this site.
You could buy a used HDR Fox T2 on ebay for not much money, put your 2TB disc in it, install the custom firmware on the HDR Fox T2...
It would make a change from being told I should be upgrading to CAT8 cable because it will give my streaming better picture and audio quality compared to CAT7 or less.
Many years ago hummy.tv was so active and changes so frequent I couldn't keep pace and did not read everything. Now I'm playing catchup finding out what is possible.
Thanks. I've never installed the IR package, and all previous discussion I've seen about it was for changing what functions are on which buttons of the remote which I have never wanted to do. I've never seen anything about it having these other features.
Canon introduced a new lens mount for their mirrorless cameras a few years ago. It is the Z mount as it is the last one (according to them) you will ever need and said it would be called the "Zee Mount" worldwide. "Good luck with that" as one of my friends said.
It is a huge pain that the Humax remote cannot be programmed to control the TV or soundbar or AVR volume by infrared when in PVR mode to control the HDR Fox T2. Why on earth can't it do such an obviously useful thing? Switching to TV or Audio mode isn't the same, it takes more button presses and...
My elderly aunt will have little reason to live if broadcast TV ceases. I'm not exaggerating, she needs help whenever she leaves her apartment. She has no internet and would not be able to handle the inevitable complexity. Even power cycling it when it went down would be a 15 minute phone call...
Doesn't matter. Any way you measure it, employees, revenues, margins, number of times we've been sued, countries we operate in, I work for a very large company.
There is a detailed article here from @Black Hole on how to swap hard discs between HDR Fox T2s: https://hummy.tv/forum/threads/hard-drive-swap.9928/post-146942
@jalba I still think your simplest option is to buy an HDR Fox T2 on ebay, put your hard disc in it, install the custom firmware that you will find documented on this site (it's really easy), and use the custom firmware webUI to change the encryption key of the new box to what your old one used...
Question for @jalba: how many of the recordings you want to copy were from HD (High Definition) channels? If the answer is "none" then this gets simpler because only HD recordings are encrypted on the HDR Fox T2. At that point you only need to get the files off the disc.
I will remind people of this statement in the original posting: "I need straightforward and reasonably simple step-by-step instructions, please, because I have only basic technical know-how."
My reading suggests to me that buying a second hand HDR Fox T2 and transplanting the old hard disc into...
I knew there was something I'd forgotten for the encryption key.
I was aware it is possible to decrypt the files offline on a computer but I had completely forgotten the details.
Don't throw the old HDR Fox T2 away yet, you need to know it's ethernet address to work out the encryption key it used. This is documented somewhere on this site.
You could buy a used HDR Fox T2 on ebay for not much money, put your 2TB disc in it, install the custom firmware on the HDR Fox T2...
It would make a change from being told I should be upgrading to CAT8 cable because it will give my streaming better picture and audio quality compared to CAT7 or less.
Many years ago hummy.tv was so active and changes so frequent I couldn't keep pace and did not read everything. Now I'm playing catchup finding out what is possible.
Thanks. I've never installed the IR package, and all previous discussion I've seen about it was for changing what functions are on which buttons of the remote which I have never wanted to do. I've never seen anything about it having these other features.
Canon introduced a new lens mount for their mirrorless cameras a few years ago. It is the Z mount as it is the last one (according to them) you will ever need and said it would be called the "Zee Mount" worldwide. "Good luck with that" as one of my friends said.
It is a huge pain that the Humax remote cannot be programmed to control the TV or soundbar or AVR volume by infrared when in PVR mode to control the HDR Fox T2. Why on earth can't it do such an obviously useful thing? Switching to TV or Audio mode isn't the same, it takes more button presses and...
My elderly aunt will have little reason to live if broadcast TV ceases. I'm not exaggerating, she needs help whenever she leaves her apartment. She has no internet and would not be able to handle the inevitable complexity. Even power cycling it when it went down would be a 15 minute phone call...
Doesn't matter. Any way you measure it, employees, revenues, margins, number of times we've been sued, countries we operate in, I work for a very large company.
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