I've owned a Humax HDR Fox T2 recorder (500GB) for about 8-9 years and I love it.
About two years ago, I installed in it some firmware whose name I don't recall, that enabled it to copy HD files to a USB stick and, from the USB stick, to a PC for editing/archiving. Eventually, a few months later, I somehow discovered how to copy the T2 files wirelessly to my PC, which was a hugely convenient improvement. I was VERY happy for a year or two!
However, aa few days ago, I noticed that newly recorded Humax files were being marked "Enc" and, although copiable to USB stick, were not readable by my PC Editor (VideoReDo 5). A couple of days later, the T2 recorder then completely lost ability to list ANY already recorded MEDIA and refused to record anything new at all. It blankly ignored those commands.
Checking its own "HDD Test" gave an "Unknown Error" and "Format Storage" also failed, although system did report 55% HDD capacity available, which sounded correct from my own memory. That seemed most odd, given that it seemed to have forgotten it had an HDD at all.
I already had a "new" (well, not exactly, but totally unused!) 1TB Seagate Pipeline HDD put aside for an eventual capacity upgrade to a 320GB FoxSat Recorder. So, I decided to fit this disk to the T2 now and hope it would fix the problems.
After an easy HDD replacement and Format on the T2, to my great relief, the recorder did then recover all its recording facilities and, gratifyingly, somehow, retained its recording Schedule too, although that seemed odd..
However, all HD recordings are still being flagged "Enc" and my PC cannot find the Humax in PC File Explorer. The files do copy to USB stick and from there to a PC but, as expected, cannot be read on the PC.
I can only assume that I need to reinstall the custom firmware in order to restore the encryption/copy workaround but, at my now scarily advanced age, I cannot recall reliably what that software was or how I did it.
Please can someone point me to the simplest possible idiot's guide to restoring the HD copy facility? I really don't need anything more sophisticated than to transfer, edit and archive T2 HD files on a Win 10 PC, which I was doing nicely until a few days ago.
In case it's significant, the T2 System Info currently reports as follows:
Software Version FHTCP 1.03.12
Loader Version a7.34
System ID 80BC.7E00
Update Date 07-Feb-14
MICOM Version 9.3
Mac Address DC
3:21:841:98
Forgive me,, please!
Since writing the above, I have found, hiding on an old WinXP laptop, what I think is the upgrade file that I originally used in the T2. It is named "HDR_FOX_T2_upgrade.hdf", File Size 23,821 kB, and my copy file is dated 08/08/2019. I'm reasonably confident that this is what I used originally, but would very much appreciate advice from wise minds here as to whether I should now go ahead and try this again? Has anything radically changed in the last couple of years? Having got the recording facility back, I'd hate to screw up at this stage!
About two years ago, I installed in it some firmware whose name I don't recall, that enabled it to copy HD files to a USB stick and, from the USB stick, to a PC for editing/archiving. Eventually, a few months later, I somehow discovered how to copy the T2 files wirelessly to my PC, which was a hugely convenient improvement. I was VERY happy for a year or two!
However, aa few days ago, I noticed that newly recorded Humax files were being marked "Enc" and, although copiable to USB stick, were not readable by my PC Editor (VideoReDo 5). A couple of days later, the T2 recorder then completely lost ability to list ANY already recorded MEDIA and refused to record anything new at all. It blankly ignored those commands.
Checking its own "HDD Test" gave an "Unknown Error" and "Format Storage" also failed, although system did report 55% HDD capacity available, which sounded correct from my own memory. That seemed most odd, given that it seemed to have forgotten it had an HDD at all.
I already had a "new" (well, not exactly, but totally unused!) 1TB Seagate Pipeline HDD put aside for an eventual capacity upgrade to a 320GB FoxSat Recorder. So, I decided to fit this disk to the T2 now and hope it would fix the problems.
After an easy HDD replacement and Format on the T2, to my great relief, the recorder did then recover all its recording facilities and, gratifyingly, somehow, retained its recording Schedule too, although that seemed odd..
However, all HD recordings are still being flagged "Enc" and my PC cannot find the Humax in PC File Explorer. The files do copy to USB stick and from there to a PC but, as expected, cannot be read on the PC.
I can only assume that I need to reinstall the custom firmware in order to restore the encryption/copy workaround but, at my now scarily advanced age, I cannot recall reliably what that software was or how I did it.
Please can someone point me to the simplest possible idiot's guide to restoring the HD copy facility? I really don't need anything more sophisticated than to transfer, edit and archive T2 HD files on a Win 10 PC, which I was doing nicely until a few days ago.
In case it's significant, the T2 System Info currently reports as follows:
Software Version FHTCP 1.03.12
Loader Version a7.34
System ID 80BC.7E00
Update Date 07-Feb-14
MICOM Version 9.3
Mac Address DC
3:21:841:98 Forgive me,, please!
Since writing the above, I have found, hiding on an old WinXP laptop, what I think is the upgrade file that I originally used in the T2. It is named "HDR_FOX_T2_upgrade.hdf", File Size 23,821 kB, and my copy file is dated 08/08/2019. I'm reasonably confident that this is what I used originally, but would very much appreciate advice from wise minds here as to whether I should now go ahead and try this again? Has anything radically changed in the last couple of years? Having got the recording facility back, I'd hate to screw up at this stage!
