Humax FHR-6000T Will this need its own listing in the forum? ( Now named the Aura EZ 4K Freely Recorder)

Owen Smith said:
I thought current Freeview boxes are supposed to retain the recording schedule across a retune? The HDR Fox T2 doesn't (without help from custom firmware) but it's an old box.
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I’d have to repeat the test. As I said I was 95% sure I used Smart Scan, but it was the weekend. I might not have been fully functional.
 
If I’d prior knowledge of what this box was like I would have bought another 5000T or orig Aura. Maybe the 5000T wins because although it only records 3 channels at the same time it is a much more reliable box than the original Aura. This EZ reliably records things, but the Freeview interface is a nightmare. God only knows why they decided to allocated different numbers for the Freeview channels. I had learned my favourites over the years but now they’re totally different, and don’t correspond to any TV listings mag/site. I despair tbh.
 
StvJam said:
God only knows why they decided to allocated different numbers for the Freeview channels
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Because it's a Freely box not a Freeview one. It is possibly a mistake to refer to Freeview even though we all know what you mean. It should number the channels through the aerial to match those that are streaming. I've no idea what it does with "Freeview" ( ;) ) channels not available on Freely.
 
EEPhil said:
Because it's a Freely box not a Freeview one. It is possibly a mistake to refer to Freeview even though we all know what you mean. It should number the channels through the aerial to match those that are streaming. I've no idea what it does with "Freeview" ( ;) ) channels not available on Freely.
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Got it! Typical lack of consideration of the consumer. I have uninstalled Freely so to me this is just another Freeview box, albeit a PITA one.
 
I wonder what would happen if you'd uninstalled Freely and then done a factory reset Would it have picked up the Freeview numbering or been totally confused?
 
Perhaps it would automatically reinstall Freely. I can’t try it though because I don’t trust it to keep my recordings. Anyway, I suppose it’s like learning a new language - eventually I will remember the alternative channel numbers without having to scroll through the list.
 
I wasn't suggesting you try it. It was just a thought. I suppose the EZ could be like Windows 11 and reinstall things you've deleted because Microsoft (or in our case Humax) know better than us what we want. They don't.
 
StvJam said:
Typical lack of consideration of the consumer
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"of" or "for"?

Sky and Virgin both use different LCNs than Freeview (and different from each other), and I imagine Freesat is different again, so why should Freely have to? The actual service numbers are 5-digit strings (IIRC), so you wouldn't want to be trying to remember those.

StvJam said:
I have uninstalled Freely so to me this is just another Freeview box
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Even without the Freely app, it will still be Freely underneath.
 
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Black Hole said:
The actual service numbers are 5-digit strings (IIRC), so you wouldn't want to be trying to remember those.
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That is from digitalbitrate.com for BBC Two. Therefore the service number is 4 digits. On top of that BBC One and ITV1 /STV/UTV are going to vary between regions. I definitely wouldn't want to remember them. I have enough trouble (after 1-5 obvious) remembering 10,21,82,231,704 and now 12. I can't remember the LCN for R4 Extra. No wonder the channel up/down button gets so much stick.
 
EEPhil said:
Therefore the service number is 4 digits.
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The first digit just happens to be 0, so gets dropped when displayed as a number (which it is - a 16 bit one; it is NOT a string as BH said).
Try it on PSB3 or any of the COMs and you'll find there are 5 digits.
 
Sorry, loose use of "string" on my part. I knew what I meant! (Even if stored / transmitted as a long integer, it still gets converted to a string of characters for display!)
 
Black Hole said:
Sorry, loose use of "string" on my part. I knew what I meant! (Even if stored / transmitted as a long integer, it still gets converted to a string of characters for display!)
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A 16 bit integer can hardly be described as long (a statement that works with or without C knowledge).
 
prpr said:
The first digit just happens to be 0, so gets dropped when displayed as a number (which it is - a 16 bit one; it is NOT a string as BH said).
Try it on PSB3 or any of the COMs and you'll find there are 5 digits.
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Oops!
 
Black Hole said:
a long integer,
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I purposely used "16 bit integer" for a very good reason. "long integer" is vague and means different things to different people/compilers and frankly the whole caboodle of "short/int/long/long long" is the complete and utter bane of any C programmer's life, as it is platform/compiler/OS specific and just generates unnecessary bugs.
K&R et al should be rotated at high speed in their graves for that, even if they aren't yet in them.
 
prpr said:
frankly the whole caboodle of "short/int/long/long long" is the complete and utter bane of any C programmer's life, as it is platform/compiler/OS specific and just generates unnecessary bugs.
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Huh! I've only just found out you can include stdint.h and use int16_t which should be portable. Learn something new every day!
K&R were fools. Except for function definitions they couldn't even put braces in a sensible position in their book. (Long live Allman!)
 
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