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1. GPT USB disk not automatically mounting; not accessible to TellyIF after manual mounting
  
  thanks very much both; we'll have a play, and report.
  cdmackay
  
  Post #5
  
  Nov 23, 2021
  
  Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
2. GPT USB disk not automatically mounting; not accessible to TellyIF after manual mounting
  
  hi, thanks very much for the reply. Sorry to be slow; are you saying that the GPT disk indeed ought to be mounted automatically, on insertion, via the discovery hook? Or merely that the insertion hook allows the CF to show the external disk icon, allowing for manual mounting when it is clicked...
  cdmackay
  
  Post #3
  
  Nov 21, 2021
  
  Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
3. GPT USB disk not automatically mounting; not accessible to TellyIF after manual mounting
  
  hi all, apologies if this is an FAQ: I searched both here, and in the CF wiki, and found many related posts, but couldn't find answers to the following; apols if I missed them. My friend has a 2TB external USB drive. It has a GPT partition table, with a single partition, with an ext3 filesystem...
  cdmackay
  
  Thread
  
  Nov 20, 2021
  
  Replies: 4
  
  Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
4. loss of RF input
  
  Good point but no, the aerial is much newer; I had a wide(r)-band aerial fitted when our previous aerial stopped working as Sandy Heath changed UHF channels. I don't recall the cable being changed at the same time (sadly). The aerial is probably 10–15 years old, the cable could be 40, or more.
  cdmackay
  
  Post #35
  
  Mar 7, 2020
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
5. loss of RF input
  
  thanks again, all. I wondered about replacing the module(s), but obviously if I have to buy a T2 to get them, I might as well just replace the T2 entirely, especially now we can replace its encryption key via the CF, so my not-decrypted recordings may still be viewed on it. I think I have a...
  cdmackay
  
  Post #31
  
  Mar 4, 2020
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
6. Remote Scheduling for Foxsat-HDR Now Available
  
  man man? :) [more seriously: the original unix came with notes, which noted that every command had a man page, which described it, and you use the man command to access those. and it was a tiny community, where every user got their copy direct from the inventors] I think the following is as...
  cdmackay
  
  Post #106
  
  Mar 3, 2020
  
  Forum: FOXSAT-HDR Customised Firmware
7. Cropped .TS Won't Play on Smart TV
  
  Possibly by coincidence, I found yesterday that a cropped T2 TS file wouldn't play properly with Kodi; it played, but not for long, with a terrible colour cast. Unfortunately, I deleted the original, so can't say if that had the same problem. But I use Kodi to view my archive of T2 recordings...
  cdmackay
  
  Post #4
  
  Mar 3, 2020
  
  Forum: Audio/Video File Manipulation
8. Remote Scheduling for Foxsat-HDR Now Available
  
  Also, if you're redirecting a single file's contents, e.g. to a program, you don't need to use cat at all. i.e. instead of: cat file-in | prog > file-out you can write: prog < file-in > file-out that might explain why it was called cat, since with the above you'd not use it for single...
  cdmackay
  
  Post #102
  
  Mar 3, 2020
  
  Forum: FOXSAT-HDR Customised Firmware
9. Remote Scheduling for Foxsat-HDR Now Available
  
  yup, and that's why it was called concatenate, which means linking things together. In this sense, sending all the files given on the cmdline (even if just one file) to stdout, linked together (i.e. one after the other with no break), whether or not that "standard output" is redirected to a...
  cdmackay
  
  Post #101
  
  Mar 3, 2020
  
  Forum: FOXSAT-HDR Customised Firmware
10. loss of RF input
  
  Yes, good point, thanks. And I'm not. Which reminds me to put coupler-connectors on the 4 cables from the LNB on our dish, to protect the two FoxSat Humaxen from the same fate, if their cables ever spring a leak, too. thanks again!
  cdmackay
  
  Post #26
  
  Mar 3, 2020
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
11. loss of RF input
  
  The connectors on the outside may have some air corrosion, very slight; with the eye, as opposed to a close-up pic, they look fine. The output connector looks the same, and it's never had a wet (or dry) cable connected to it. Yes, I'm amazed it was working fine a few days ago, with all that rust!
  cdmackay
  
  Post #24
  
  Mar 2, 2020
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
12. loss of RF input
  
  Yup :) I will keep the Humax, for playback, and for spares (other than RF input), as I think I have another somewhere. But I need to get the aerial cable sorted first. I'll go with an aerial socket plate on the wall, too, which will protect against this sort of nonsense in the future; well, so...
  cdmackay
  
  Post #23
  
  Mar 1, 2020
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
13. Remote Scheduling for Foxsat-HDR Now Available
  
  It's called concatenate since it's often used to do that with multiple files: cat file1 file2 file3 […] > bigfile
  cdmackay
  
  Post #96
  
  Mar 1, 2020
  
  Forum: FOXSAT-HDR Customised Firmware
14. loss of RF input
  
  sigh. see pics: https://www.amazon.co.uk/photos/share/JCiSogCSJ1PZdJvow8vIzpUzJGzuxMIujMl3WxGeYWs no sign of water damage on the outside, i.e. the RF connectors, but… what's that orange stuff on the main board, around the RF IN daughter-board? And doesn't that daughter-board look like it's...
  cdmackay
  
  Post #19
  
  Mar 1, 2020
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
15. loss of RF input
  
  thanks both. gotcha! glass: nice idea, better than blotting paper.
  cdmackay
  
  Post #18
  
  Feb 28, 2020
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
16. loss of RF input
  
  Thanks very much indeed for all the comments, most helpful. I will have a good look at the board & connectors, and also see if drying helps. I do have a spare Humax somewhere I think (!) if i can find it. I'l try some blotting paper to really verify if the cable is wet. I can of course replace...
  cdmackay
  
  Post #15
  
  Feb 28, 2020
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
17. loss of RF input
  
  I fear you're right. Now, that's an interesting comment. When I undid the coax connector, I did indeed get the impression that it felt a little damp; my friend wasn't quite so sure. It wasn't dripping wet, for example. Has that been a known problem in the past? I'd discounted it, initially...
  cdmackay
  
  Post #7
  
  Feb 28, 2020
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
18. loss of RF input
  
  ah thanks; I had some vague memory that a reset would wipe out part of the CF, but not sure why I thought that. thanks again.
  cdmackay
  
  Post #5
  
  Feb 27, 2020
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
19. loss of RF input
  
  thanks! I forgot about the service menu, I'll give that a try. Once I've done a final backup of CF settings etc, I'll try a reset too. ta!
  cdmackay
  
  Post #3
  
  Feb 27, 2020
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
20. loss of RF input
  
  my T2 seems to have lost RF input entirely. 0/0 on all muxes, this happened yesterday evening, after successfully recording programmes during the day. Retune finds 0 channels. My aerial plugs directly into the T2, no splitters, amps, etc. Has been fine for years. Aerial seems to be fine...
  cdmackay
  
  Thread
  
  Feb 27, 2020
  
  Replies: 37
  
  Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder

GPT USB disk not automatically mounting; not accessible to TellyIF after manual mounting

thanks very much both; we'll have a play, and report.
- cdmackay
- Post #5
- Nov 23, 2021
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
GPT USB disk not automatically mounting; not accessible to TellyIF after manual mounting

hi, thanks very much for the reply. Sorry to be slow; are you saying that the GPT disk indeed ought to be mounted automatically, on insertion, via the discovery hook? Or merely that the insertion hook allows the CF to show the external disk icon, allowing for manual mounting when it is clicked...
- cdmackay
- Post #3
- Nov 21, 2021
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
GPT USB disk not automatically mounting; not accessible to TellyIF after manual mounting

hi all, apologies if this is an FAQ: I searched both here, and in the CF wiki, and found many related posts, but couldn't find answers to the following; apols if I missed them. My friend has a 2TB external USB drive. It has a GPT partition table, with a single partition, with an ext3 filesystem...
- cdmackay
- Thread
- Nov 20, 2021
- Replies: 4
- Forum: HD/HDR-FOX T2 Customised Firmware
loss of RF input

Good point but no, the aerial is much newer; I had a wide(r)-band aerial fitted when our previous aerial stopped working as Sandy Heath changed UHF channels. I don't recall the cable being changed at the same time (sadly). The aerial is probably 10–15 years old, the cable could be 40, or more.
- cdmackay
- Post #35
- Mar 7, 2020
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
loss of RF input

thanks again, all. I wondered about replacing the module(s), but obviously if I have to buy a T2 to get them, I might as well just replace the T2 entirely, especially now we can replace its encryption key via the CF, so my not-decrypted recordings may still be viewed on it. I think I have a...
- cdmackay
- Post #31
- Mar 4, 2020
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
Remote Scheduling for Foxsat-HDR Now Available

man man? :) [more seriously: the original unix came with notes, which noted that every command had a man page, which described it, and you use the man command to access those. and it was a tiny community, where every user got their copy direct from the inventors] I think the following is as...
- cdmackay
- Post #106
- Mar 3, 2020
- Forum: FOXSAT-HDR Customised Firmware
Cropped .TS Won't Play on Smart TV

Possibly by coincidence, I found yesterday that a cropped T2 TS file wouldn't play properly with Kodi; it played, but not for long, with a terrible colour cast. Unfortunately, I deleted the original, so can't say if that had the same problem. But I use Kodi to view my archive of T2 recordings...
- cdmackay
- Post #4
- Mar 3, 2020
- Forum: Audio/Video File Manipulation
Remote Scheduling for Foxsat-HDR Now Available

Also, if you're redirecting a single file's contents, e.g. to a program, you don't need to use cat at all. i.e. instead of: cat file-in | prog > file-out you can write: prog < file-in > file-out that might explain why it was called cat, since with the above you'd not use it for single...
- cdmackay
- Post #102
- Mar 3, 2020
- Forum: FOXSAT-HDR Customised Firmware
Remote Scheduling for Foxsat-HDR Now Available

yup, and that's why it was called concatenate, which means linking things together. In this sense, sending all the files given on the cmdline (even if just one file) to stdout, linked together (i.e. one after the other with no break), whether or not that "standard output" is redirected to a...
- cdmackay
- Post #101
- Mar 3, 2020
- Forum: FOXSAT-HDR Customised Firmware
loss of RF input

Yes, good point, thanks. And I'm not. Which reminds me to put coupler-connectors on the 4 cables from the LNB on our dish, to protect the two FoxSat Humaxen from the same fate, if their cables ever spring a leak, too. thanks again!
- cdmackay
- Post #26
- Mar 3, 2020
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
loss of RF input

The connectors on the outside may have some air corrosion, very slight; with the eye, as opposed to a close-up pic, they look fine. The output connector looks the same, and it's never had a wet (or dry) cable connected to it. Yes, I'm amazed it was working fine a few days ago, with all that rust!
- cdmackay
- Post #24
- Mar 2, 2020
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
loss of RF input

Yup :) I will keep the Humax, for playback, and for spares (other than RF input), as I think I have another somewhere. But I need to get the aerial cable sorted first. I'll go with an aerial socket plate on the wall, too, which will protect against this sort of nonsense in the future; well, so...
- cdmackay
- Post #23
- Mar 1, 2020
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
Remote Scheduling for Foxsat-HDR Now Available

It's called concatenate since it's often used to do that with multiple files: cat file1 file2 file3 […] > bigfile
- cdmackay
- Post #96
- Mar 1, 2020
- Forum: FOXSAT-HDR Customised Firmware
loss of RF input

sigh. see pics: https://www.amazon.co.uk/photos/share/JCiSogCSJ1PZdJvow8vIzpUzJGzuxMIujMl3WxGeYWs no sign of water damage on the outside, i.e. the RF connectors, but… what's that orange stuff on the main board, around the RF IN daughter-board? And doesn't that daughter-board look like it's...
- cdmackay
- Post #19
- Mar 1, 2020
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
loss of RF input

thanks both. gotcha! glass: nice idea, better than blotting paper.
- cdmackay
- Post #18
- Feb 28, 2020
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
loss of RF input

Thanks very much indeed for all the comments, most helpful. I will have a good look at the board & connectors, and also see if drying helps. I do have a spare Humax somewhere I think (!) if i can find it. I'l try some blotting paper to really verify if the cable is wet. I can of course replace...
- cdmackay
- Post #15
- Feb 28, 2020
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
loss of RF input

I fear you're right. Now, that's an interesting comment. When I undid the coax connector, I did indeed get the impression that it felt a little damp; my friend wasn't quite so sure. It wasn't dripping wet, for example. Has that been a known problem in the past? I'd discounted it, initially...
- cdmackay
- Post #7
- Feb 28, 2020
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
loss of RF input

ah thanks; I had some vague memory that a reset would wipe out part of the CF, but not sure why I thought that. thanks again.
- cdmackay
- Post #5
- Feb 27, 2020
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
loss of RF input

thanks! I forgot about the service menu, I'll give that a try. Once I've done a final backup of CF settings etc, I'll try a reset too. ta!
- cdmackay
- Post #3
- Feb 27, 2020
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder
loss of RF input

my T2 seems to have lost RF input entirely. 0/0 on all muxes, this happened yesterday evening, after successfully recording programmes during the day. Retune finds 0 channels. My aerial plugs directly into the T2, no splitters, amps, etc. Has been fine for years. Aerial seems to be fine...
- cdmackay
- Thread
- Feb 27, 2020
- Replies: 37
- Forum: HDR-FOX T2 Freeview Recorder