Fear that my Fox T2 recorder may be on the way out. It started with it rebooting in the middle of a programme. Now it either does that, or hangs and needs a switch on/off at the back to get it going. I have installed the custom firmware, set the fan to 50% (this brought the temperature down which has improved things, a bit) and run an offline disk test - that passed. Also retrieved the SMART data which looked ok to my untrained eye. Finally, I copied everything I wanted off to other media via USB (spare disks), and did a factory reset - it still reboots or hangs occasionally. I have tried switching the 'external network' setting off in the system configuration - no difference.
So, what to do next? I have tried copying some of the .ts files back to the Humax box, but they don't play at all well - the recordings keep stopping if they play at all (same if I try to play them from USB). Has doing a factory reset changed the encryption, I thought this was hardware based? It's not essential to put them back, especially as the box is getting unreliable but I just wanted to see if it would work. My question - is it even possible to do this, I found lots of threads about copying things from the box to USB but none about copying them back on to the box. I use Plex, so I can bring things I really want to watch into there, but I just thought it should be possible to copy things back on to the box via USB. I even thought I had done it before? It seems like Plex is my main option as on the newer boxes like the Aura and Manhattan, there is no option to copy stuff to the box anyyway, only record new stuff from Freeview? The box must be 12 years old at least so it's done well but it does everything so well normally, I'd like to exhaust other possibilities before I go for a new one.
So, what to do next? I have tried copying some of the .ts files back to the Humax box, but they don't play at all well - the recordings keep stopping if they play at all (same if I try to play them from USB). Has doing a factory reset changed the encryption, I thought this was hardware based? It's not essential to put them back, especially as the box is getting unreliable but I just wanted to see if it would work. My question - is it even possible to do this, I found lots of threads about copying things from the box to USB but none about copying them back on to the box. I use Plex, so I can bring things I really want to watch into there, but I just thought it should be possible to copy things back on to the box via USB. I even thought I had done it before? It seems like Plex is my main option as on the newer boxes like the Aura and Manhattan, there is no option to copy stuff to the box anyyway, only record new stuff from Freeview? The box must be 12 years old at least so it's done well but it does everything so well normally, I'd like to exhaust other possibilities before I go for a new one.
