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[Mjolinor]

I have been using the DTR-T2100 and the Talk Talk / Hauwei equivalent for a long time and it always annoys me that I cannot watch things on one box from another box. I have three boxes in the house.

I decided that the FVP-5000T would allow this so I bought one off Facebook Marketplace. It arrived and was actually an HDR-FOX T2. Typical dishonest "billy no mates" user. I then bought a 4000 and a 5000 off ebay and they are absolutely rubbish. I cannot believe that a newer box would be so difficult to use. Everything you need is three button presses deep on the remote.

So, powered up this FOX T2 and am really quite pleased with it all. It has me confused over a few things for example if I record two consecutive episodes of Opal Hunters the second one will have detectads bookmarks but the first one never does and, as yet, I have not found a way to force detectads to run on request. The sub title sync is another problem which is depressing, being an old git and totally mutton I need subtitles.

I keep trying to get into the T2100 so I can load DLNA or FTP but I have not really got anywhere. Just a serial boot log from one of the various serial ports inside but no apparent way in over serial yet.

Happy to be here and much reading to do.

 

[Black Hole]

The HDR-FOX is a far better unit, and we have the custom firmware for it.

It has me confused over a few things for example if I record two consecutive episodes of Opal Hunters the second one will have detectads bookmarks but the first one never does and, as yet, I have not found a way to force detectads to run on request.

Does that mean it came ready installed with CF, or have you installed it since receiving it?

If already installed, I recommend you wipe it and start again, preferably with the latest 3.14.

Happy to be here and much reading to do.

See the links below (in my signature panel) for starters.

 

[Mjolinor]

I installed it. 3.14

Just noticed it is 3.13. I shall update it now once I find out how.

 

[Black Hole]

3.14 is only just out. https://hummy.tv/forum/threads/cf-3-14.11647/

I have not found a way to force detectads to run on request.

It's on the OPT+ menu button next to each .ts in the WebIF media browser, or you can tick the box against a selection of recordings and queue for ad detection at the bottom of the page.

 

[MartinLiddle]

The sub title sync is another problem which is depressing, being an old git and totally mutton I need subtitles.

As another old git I can confirm that sub title sync is very poor on the HDR-FOX T2 but is pretty much faultless on later boxes. Like you I used an FVP-5000T for a while but wasn't greatly impressed so I bought an Aura which is potentially an excellent box but is flawed by Humax stopping the software development too soon so there are a significant number of bugs. There is hope on the horizon for the Aura with Humax working on updated software.

 

[EEPhil]

There is hope on the horizon for the Aura with Humax working on updated software.

If only we knew what it might fix. Rumours suggested an update to Android. That would solve a problem that doesn't exist. Hopefully real problems will be solved. (Where's the "fingers crossed" and "flying pig" emojis when you need them?)

Like you I used an FVP-5000T for a while but wasn't greatly impressed

I didn't find it that bad - although there must be some reason why mine sits there doing nothing!

 

[Luke]

I keep trying to get into the T2100 so I can load DLNA or FTP but I have not really got anywhere. Just a serial boot log from one of the various serial ports inside but no apparent way in over serial yet.

The DTR-T2100 was designed with strong content protection in mind, particularly for HD recordings and streams. The firmware includes a mix of Humax (for hardware-level functions) and YouView, with YouView’s requirements ensuring the hardware is locked down to satisfy broadcasters and content providers. The aim was to make it extremely difficult to bypass these protections.

As far as I know, there haven’t been any successful hacks that unlocked features beyond what the box was designed to offer. That said, I’ll be interested to see how far you’re able to get with your experiments.

On a practical note, it is possible to pull (the non-encrypted) SD and audio from the HDD, though the XFS partition can be a bit awkward to deal with.