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EPG goes blank
That has happened to me and it was a bad block on the hard disc causing my HDR Fox T2 to take a very long time to read or write a sector with all the retries. Live TV picture on screen was fine all through this. I resolved it by running fix disk from the maintenance menu which took over sn hour...- Owen Smith
- Post #23
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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HDR-1800T record/playback problems.
It's an Ext3 partition which is a Unix format, Windows doesn't know how to read it. You can download a "Boot Linux from USB stick" image and boot that and copy from this drive to something else, but if you don't use Ext3 you risk losing important metadata or even truncating the file.- Owen Smith
- Post #11
- Forum: HDR-1800T/HDR-2000T Freeview Recorders
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EPG goes blank
It is reported the broadcasters have fixed the PSB2 problem, so @gjf60's issue may never recur.- Owen Smith
- Post #20
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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HDR-1800T record/playback problems.
Buy a second hand HDR Fox T2 on eBay. Across my family there are 4 of them in use and have been since it was a new model around 2010. The custom firmware (documented elsewhere on this forum) adds lots of features including fixdisk, and our accumulated knowledge means a number of hardware issues...- Owen Smith
- Post #9
- Forum: HDR-1800T/HDR-2000T Freeview Recorders
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EPG goes blank
Yes, what channel is the box receiving at the time. If it is something on PSB2 eg ITV1, C4, C5 among many others then we know what the problem is and it will continue to happen until the mux operator stops transmitting invalid EPG data. You can avoid the problem by tuning to a channel on PSB1 or...- Owen Smith
- Post #17
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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ITV1 Failed Recordings
And yet we do it all the time at work- Owen Smith
- Post #90
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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Full install needed (again)
Custom firmware can save/restore the recording schedule. It may be able to do some of the rest, I've never investigated.- Owen Smith
- Post #35
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
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ITV1 Failed Recordings
Correct. I spend half my life writing firmware to handle error cases. Testing them is a pain in the neck as you have to inject errors.- Owen Smith
- Post #87
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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ITV1 Failed Recordings
It seems extremely unlikely to me that such a niche function as digital terrestrial TV EPG reception would be handled in hardware. Also the data rate and volume is not significant, so unlike audio and video decoding there is no benefit to doing this in hardware.- Owen Smith
- Post #86
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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ITV1 Failed Recordings
Often yes, using something like a CRC on the data. Ethernet works that way for example. But surely the EPG data is handled in firmware?- Owen Smith
- Post #83
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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ITV1 Failed Recordings
Ignoring invalid data is standard procedure for network connected devices, we do it all the time at work.- Owen Smith
- Post #81
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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ITV1 Failed Recordings
It's obvious how you could ignore these corrupt entries in the firmware, but presumably the HDR Fox T2 does not.- Owen Smith
- Post #77
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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ITV1 Failed Recordings
I still use Disable-DSO package (or do I mean Disable-OTA?) with its schedule event creation, so all my HDR Fox T2s power on to channel 250 for 20 mins from 4:20am to 4:40am. Given 250 is on PSB1 that should do the job. I also have a timer wake set from 16:20 to 16:40 every day to BBC1 HD in...- Owen Smith
- Post #74
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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Auto scheduler not working as expected
There is a purge button in RS for clearing existing matches. It's done based purely on a textual match, it doesn't remember the particular series it scheduled it only remembers it got a match so doesn't schedule on further matches.- Owen Smith
- Post #2
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
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ITV1 Failed Recordings
Then they need one or more of: New glasses Cataracts removed A larger TV Don't sit at the far end of a very large room I also find the sound quality is better on the HD channels even when played in stereo at my parents. And at my house I have a surround sound system so on the BBC HD channels...- Owen Smith
- Post #50
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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ITV1 Failed Recordings
Why weren't those the versions you were recording anyway? Why would you knowingly record the SD versions in preference to HD?- Owen Smith
- Post #45
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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ITV1 Failed Recordings
I tun two HDR Fox T2s. I record the same things on both boxes. One of them has AR enabled and the other uses padding.- Owen Smith
- Post #20
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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Persistent Pixelation on Playback
I don't have any near Cambridge and have no problems so far. Receiving Sandy Heath, plus Maddingley for the local mux.- Owen Smith
- Post #28
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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Persistent Pixelation on Playback
Yes but a filter from 700MHz up will attenuate at 800MHz more strongly than the old one. These filters don't have cliff edge vertical roll offs, even if we'd like them to.- Owen Smith
- Post #27
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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EPG goes blank
That has happened to me and it was a bad block on the hard disc causing my HDR Fox T2 to take a very long time to read or write a sector with all the retries. Live TV picture on screen was fine all through this. I resolved it by running fix disk from the maintenance menu which took over sn hour...- Owen Smith
- Post #23
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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HDR-1800T record/playback problems.
It's an Ext3 partition which is a Unix format, Windows doesn't know how to read it. You can download a "Boot Linux from USB stick" image and boot that and copy from this drive to something else, but if you don't use Ext3 you risk losing important metadata or even truncating the file.- Owen Smith
- Post #11
- Forum: HDR-1800T/HDR-2000T Freeview Recorders
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EPG goes blank
It is reported the broadcasters have fixed the PSB2 problem, so @gjf60's issue may never recur.- Owen Smith
- Post #20
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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HDR-1800T record/playback problems.
Buy a second hand HDR Fox T2 on eBay. Across my family there are 4 of them in use and have been since it was a new model around 2010. The custom firmware (documented elsewhere on this forum) adds lots of features including fixdisk, and our accumulated knowledge means a number of hardware issues...- Owen Smith
- Post #9
- Forum: HDR-1800T/HDR-2000T Freeview Recorders
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EPG goes blank
Yes, what channel is the box receiving at the time. If it is something on PSB2 eg ITV1, C4, C5 among many others then we know what the problem is and it will continue to happen until the mux operator stops transmitting invalid EPG data. You can avoid the problem by tuning to a channel on PSB1 or...- Owen Smith
- Post #17
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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ITV1 Failed Recordings
And yet we do it all the time at work- Owen Smith
- Post #90
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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Full install needed (again)
Custom firmware can save/restore the recording schedule. It may be able to do some of the rest, I've never investigated.- Owen Smith
- Post #35
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
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ITV1 Failed Recordings
Correct. I spend half my life writing firmware to handle error cases. Testing them is a pain in the neck as you have to inject errors.- Owen Smith
- Post #87
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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ITV1 Failed Recordings
It seems extremely unlikely to me that such a niche function as digital terrestrial TV EPG reception would be handled in hardware. Also the data rate and volume is not significant, so unlike audio and video decoding there is no benefit to doing this in hardware.- Owen Smith
- Post #86
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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ITV1 Failed Recordings
Often yes, using something like a CRC on the data. Ethernet works that way for example. But surely the EPG data is handled in firmware?- Owen Smith
- Post #83
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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ITV1 Failed Recordings
Ignoring invalid data is standard procedure for network connected devices, we do it all the time at work.- Owen Smith
- Post #81
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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ITV1 Failed Recordings
It's obvious how you could ignore these corrupt entries in the firmware, but presumably the HDR Fox T2 does not.- Owen Smith
- Post #77
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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ITV1 Failed Recordings
I still use Disable-DSO package (or do I mean Disable-OTA?) with its schedule event creation, so all my HDR Fox T2s power on to channel 250 for 20 mins from 4:20am to 4:40am. Given 250 is on PSB1 that should do the job. I also have a timer wake set from 16:20 to 16:40 every day to BBC1 HD in...- Owen Smith
- Post #74
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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Auto scheduler not working as expected
There is a purge button in RS for clearing existing matches. It's done based purely on a textual match, it doesn't remember the particular series it scheduled it only remembers it got a match so doesn't schedule on further matches.- Owen Smith
- Post #2
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
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ITV1 Failed Recordings
Then they need one or more of: New glasses Cataracts removed A larger TV Don't sit at the far end of a very large room I also find the sound quality is better on the HD channels even when played in stereo at my parents. And at my house I have a surround sound system so on the BBC HD channels...- Owen Smith
- Post #50
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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ITV1 Failed Recordings
Why weren't those the versions you were recording anyway? Why would you knowingly record the SD versions in preference to HD?- Owen Smith
- Post #45
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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ITV1 Failed Recordings
I tun two HDR Fox T2s. I record the same things on both boxes. One of them has AR enabled and the other uses padding.- Owen Smith
- Post #20
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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Persistent Pixelation on Playback
I don't have any near Cambridge and have no problems so far. Receiving Sandy Heath, plus Maddingley for the local mux.- Owen Smith
- Post #28
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
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Persistent Pixelation on Playback
Yes but a filter from 700MHz up will attenuate at 800MHz more strongly than the old one. These filters don't have cliff edge vertical roll offs, even if we'd like them to.- Owen Smith
- Post #27
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder