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      "Info Display Time" aka "OSD Timeout" timeout stuck at 30s

      I've noticed that the Info-bar timeout doesn't appear to respect any timeout value (Off, 1-20s) set in Menu>Settings>Preferences>Screen Display>Info Display Time. Rather, it's always ~30s. Is this happening for anyone else? I could swear that quite recently the Info-bar used to disappear too...
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      Fixing unviewable TV (but actually streamed) shows in the EPG

      Nowadays quite a few channels, generally the higher-numbered LCNs, in the TV section of the EPG are actually transmitting OTA for some short period and otherwise delivering streamed content. ISTR that a channel can count as TV (LCN < 200) if its OTA content is at least 2 hours per day. The...
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      Spoof Chaucerian Charles and Di (+1) epic: missing from the Web?

      Some time around or after the Royal divorce I acquired a paper version of a spoof Chaucerian epic (OK, only one page) on the subject of ("anent", was it?) the famously tripartite marriage of the then Prince Charles and Diana Spencer. As this was before anything like the Web was generally...
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      Humax YouView remote partially reusable on HD[R] Fox-T2

      After recovering the thinnest ever 500GB disk from a scrap BT YouView box (DTR-T2 2100, supplied by Humax), I tried out its remote control (RC3124705/03B). The remote is quite slick but the cursor functions are closely surrounded by volume, Info, channel and Back buttons that are too easy to...
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      MP4 appears to play but blank+silent+no progress

      Here's a file downloaded from an Economist webinar using the browser's dev tools Copy as curl command on the media fetch (note: use bash to avoid the shorter line length limit of the default shell when pasting super-long command lines). It plays in the browser using Webif Download. From the STB...
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      BBC streams failing with Portal Internet Radio app

      I've posted here although the only CFW aspect is that the issue is not affected by installing new-portal. Doubtless it's not dependent on HD (tested) vs HDR (not). Almost the only reason for using the Humax Portal is its Internet Radio app. In the last few months something has changed...
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      "Watch in HD" pop-up

      Certain Freeview SD channels with HD counterparts generate "Watch in HD" on-screen pop-ups, depending on the UI of the TV/set-top box (receiver). Apparently this depends on a flag sent in the broadcast stream and the interpretation of those flags by the receiver. Strangely, (in London) these...
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      DNS resolution in the HD/HDR-Fox T2

      This post (with its thread) is to document what we know about DNS resolution in the HD/HDR-Fox T2 systems. At the root is the uClibc resolver. In theory this behaves like the glibc resolver in desktop/server Linux, as described in the resolv.conf manual page, but, libc being uC, the theory is...
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      Basic CF shell commands

      In another thread (in fact I think this issue has come up several times), there was the problem that the date command built into the CF can only parse some weird date-time format even though it can generate the standard formats. This led me to check what you actually get if neither the busybox...
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      [ffmpeg] multimedia conversion utility

      The ffmpeg package has never had its own thread. It's mostly deployed as a utility by other user-facing packages. I believe these are the ones that may use it directly: webif 1.4.8-10 depends on ffmpeg (>= 2.8) soundout 0.1a depends on ffmpeg thumbnails 1.0.4...
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      Beta [iplhack] BBC iPlayer resurrection

      After September 28 2020, the BBC iPlayer app on (apparently) all Humax free-to-air set-top boxes stopped working owing to an expired client certificate. So far Humax haven't provided the necessary OEM firmware update with a revalidated client certificate for HD/HDR-Fox T2 models. Meanwhile...
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      Beta [zeroconf/mdnsd] Announcing DNS name on uPnP (v2 beta)

      I wrote: To plug the repository gap, here's the latest package built from my hpkg.tv source code (HummyNew branch), which has apparently been working well for me on three HDs and one HDR for a couple of months. This version silently updates the existing mdnsd package without uninstalling it...
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      Jim TCL debugging

      Debugging the Jim TCL code that is used to code a lot of the CF packages is a bit primitive. Techniques available include sourcing (possibly tweaked) code into the interactive Jim shell and running bits of it there, and inserting puts to track the execution and display values of variables. This...
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      Defeat media pop-up icons on HD-Fox T2

      If you have the little brother, enabled for recording and CF with an external USB disk, you may be vexed that at start-up the display is blocked with a pop-up "USB is loading" followed by the Video/Music/Photo icons that also appear when you press Media (Yellow) in the media browser functions of...
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      usqlite - a minimal SQL exec wrapper

      Here we have a small program (stripped < 10k) that enables SQLite3 SQL to be run from shell scripts, without the heft of sqlite3. I wrote Rather than wait for the rsvsync utility to be rebuilt, I considered a scripting solution. The sqlite3 package provides the very capable /mod/bin/sqlite3...
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      Displaying text on the HD-Fox T2 2:2 character display

      At least 5 years ago the CF acquired the /sbin/display binary. This is used in various scripts to display text to display text on the HDR-Fox T2, but has a fall-back interface for HD-Fox T2, as in /bin/tmenu and /etc/init.d/S89maintenance: ... feedback() { [ "$model" = HDR ] && display...
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      Webshell/WebIf via TV Portal

      There was this exchange: I should. CF's Webshell doesn't use the documented port 4200, just 80 as normal. If you use that, you can get a Webshell page displayed in the TV Portal, and auto-magically the PIN entry comes with the RC data entry widget that everyone will know from setting WiFi...
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      Split transmissions not correctly handled by Humax scheduler

      This thread in the other place discusses the problem that, whereas split transmissions are identified by a Programme CRID followed by an Instance Metadata Identifier (IMI), such as www.itv.com/1001281561#1, and owing to a brain-dead specification the IMI is always the same for all parts and...
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      Covid-19 recording conflicts

      In the current circumstances a swathe of regular programmes that people might have on series record are not being produced, let alone broadcast: as an example, Match of the Day 2. If a replacement programme is set to record, there is every chance that a conflict will be flagged. In this forum...
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      Detecting time-shift usage

      Here's an algorithm that may be useful to detect what the system is doing based on usage of the time-shift index file 0.nts. I couldn't see that this was being used but quite possibly it's old news that I've missed. The idea is that the humaxtv process only uses the index file when broadcast TV...
    1. D

      "Info Display Time" aka "OSD Timeout" timeout stuck at 30s

      I've noticed that the Info-bar timeout doesn't appear to respect any timeout value (Off, 1-20s) set in Menu>Settings>Preferences>Screen Display>Info Display Time. Rather, it's always ~30s. Is this happening for anyone else? I could swear that quite recently the Info-bar used to disappear too...
    2. D

      Fixing unviewable TV (but actually streamed) shows in the EPG

      Nowadays quite a few channels, generally the higher-numbered LCNs, in the TV section of the EPG are actually transmitting OTA for some short period and otherwise delivering streamed content. ISTR that a channel can count as TV (LCN < 200) if its OTA content is at least 2 hours per day. The...
    3. D

      Spoof Chaucerian Charles and Di (+1) epic: missing from the Web?

      Some time around or after the Royal divorce I acquired a paper version of a spoof Chaucerian epic (OK, only one page) on the subject of ("anent", was it?) the famously tripartite marriage of the then Prince Charles and Diana Spencer. As this was before anything like the Web was generally...
    4. D

      Humax YouView remote partially reusable on HD[R] Fox-T2

      After recovering the thinnest ever 500GB disk from a scrap BT YouView box (DTR-T2 2100, supplied by Humax), I tried out its remote control (RC3124705/03B). The remote is quite slick but the cursor functions are closely surrounded by volume, Info, channel and Back buttons that are too easy to...
    5. D

      MP4 appears to play but blank+silent+no progress

      Here's a file downloaded from an Economist webinar using the browser's dev tools Copy as curl command on the media fetch (note: use bash to avoid the shorter line length limit of the default shell when pasting super-long command lines). It plays in the browser using Webif Download. From the STB...
    6. D

      BBC streams failing with Portal Internet Radio app

      I've posted here although the only CFW aspect is that the issue is not affected by installing new-portal. Doubtless it's not dependent on HD (tested) vs HDR (not). Almost the only reason for using the Humax Portal is its Internet Radio app. In the last few months something has changed...
    7. D

      "Watch in HD" pop-up

      Certain Freeview SD channels with HD counterparts generate "Watch in HD" on-screen pop-ups, depending on the UI of the TV/set-top box (receiver). Apparently this depends on a flag sent in the broadcast stream and the interpretation of those flags by the receiver. Strangely, (in London) these...
    8. D

      DNS resolution in the HD/HDR-Fox T2

      This post (with its thread) is to document what we know about DNS resolution in the HD/HDR-Fox T2 systems. At the root is the uClibc resolver. In theory this behaves like the glibc resolver in desktop/server Linux, as described in the resolv.conf manual page, but, libc being uC, the theory is...
    9. D

      Basic CF shell commands

      In another thread (in fact I think this issue has come up several times), there was the problem that the date command built into the CF can only parse some weird date-time format even though it can generate the standard formats. This led me to check what you actually get if neither the busybox...
    10. D

      [ffmpeg] multimedia conversion utility

      The ffmpeg package has never had its own thread. It's mostly deployed as a utility by other user-facing packages. I believe these are the ones that may use it directly: webif 1.4.8-10 depends on ffmpeg (>= 2.8) soundout 0.1a depends on ffmpeg thumbnails 1.0.4...
    11. D

      Beta [iplhack] BBC iPlayer resurrection

      After September 28 2020, the BBC iPlayer app on (apparently) all Humax free-to-air set-top boxes stopped working owing to an expired client certificate. So far Humax haven't provided the necessary OEM firmware update with a revalidated client certificate for HD/HDR-Fox T2 models. Meanwhile...
    12. D

      Beta [zeroconf/mdnsd] Announcing DNS name on uPnP (v2 beta)

      I wrote: To plug the repository gap, here's the latest package built from my hpkg.tv source code (HummyNew branch), which has apparently been working well for me on three HDs and one HDR for a couple of months. This version silently updates the existing mdnsd package without uninstalling it...
    13. D

      Jim TCL debugging

      Debugging the Jim TCL code that is used to code a lot of the CF packages is a bit primitive. Techniques available include sourcing (possibly tweaked) code into the interactive Jim shell and running bits of it there, and inserting puts to track the execution and display values of variables. This...
    14. D

      Defeat media pop-up icons on HD-Fox T2

      If you have the little brother, enabled for recording and CF with an external USB disk, you may be vexed that at start-up the display is blocked with a pop-up "USB is loading" followed by the Video/Music/Photo icons that also appear when you press Media (Yellow) in the media browser functions of...
    15. D

      usqlite - a minimal SQL exec wrapper

      Here we have a small program (stripped < 10k) that enables SQLite3 SQL to be run from shell scripts, without the heft of sqlite3. I wrote Rather than wait for the rsvsync utility to be rebuilt, I considered a scripting solution. The sqlite3 package provides the very capable /mod/bin/sqlite3...
    16. D

      Displaying text on the HD-Fox T2 2:2 character display

      At least 5 years ago the CF acquired the /sbin/display binary. This is used in various scripts to display text to display text on the HDR-Fox T2, but has a fall-back interface for HD-Fox T2, as in /bin/tmenu and /etc/init.d/S89maintenance: ... feedback() { [ "$model" = HDR ] && display...
    17. D

      Webshell/WebIf via TV Portal

      There was this exchange: I should. CF's Webshell doesn't use the documented port 4200, just 80 as normal. If you use that, you can get a Webshell page displayed in the TV Portal, and auto-magically the PIN entry comes with the RC data entry widget that everyone will know from setting WiFi...
    18. D

      Split transmissions not correctly handled by Humax scheduler

      This thread in the other place discusses the problem that, whereas split transmissions are identified by a Programme CRID followed by an Instance Metadata Identifier (IMI), such as www.itv.com/1001281561#1, and owing to a brain-dead specification the IMI is always the same for all parts and...
    19. D

      Covid-19 recording conflicts

      In the current circumstances a swathe of regular programmes that people might have on series record are not being produced, let alone broadcast: as an example, Match of the Day 2. If a replacement programme is set to record, there is every chance that a conflict will be flagged. In this forum...
    20. D

      Detecting time-shift usage

      Here's an algorithm that may be useful to detect what the system is doing based on usage of the time-shift index file 0.nts. I couldn't see that this was being used but quite possibly it's old news that I've missed. The idea is that the humaxtv process only uses the index file when broadcast TV...
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