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

EEPhil said:
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!
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Every system I've worked on since graduating in 1987 has had their own version of that, often called things like int16 and uint16. The C standards didn't provide them at the time so we created them ourselves. Unfortunately with different names at different companies. The C standards eventually caught up.
EEPhil said:
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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K&R are responsible for a lot that is wrong with much general practice in C programming. Their books should be banned.
 
EEPhil said:
It's longer than a char :p
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Not on one of the cpus I work on it isn't. char = short = int = 16 bits on the XAP2+ processor, which is the only size thing it can load or store. And while this comes as a surprise to a lot of existing code making things hard to port, it is entirely within the C standards.
 
Owen Smith said:
And while this comes as a surprise to a lot of existing code making things hard to port, it is entirely within the C standards.
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Comes as a surprise to me as well. I would have thought wchar_t was for 16 bits - well in versions of C I've used. How wrong can I be?
 
EEPhil said:
Comes as a surprise to me as well. I would have thought wchar_t was for 16 bits - well in versions of C I've used. How wrong can I be?
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We ask it as an interview question, to see how people handle it. I got it wrong in my interview and I've been here 10 years so it's not a deal breaker if you don't know.
 
Humax have provided a list of FAQs for the Aura EZ at https://uk.humaxdigital.com/support/?product_id=633363
They don't answer some of the questions I have, which are: (bump)
EEPhil said:
For the Aura EZ: what I'm unsure of, at present, although I can have a good guess!
  • Can video files be played* from an external USB drive?
  • Can video files be loaded onto the Aura EZ's HDD and played*?
  • Can recordings be archived in the same way as for the Aura (ftp from another device)? The Aura stores StdDef recordings without encryption - does the EZ? The Aura allows transcoding of HiDef to a lower quality unencrypted form - does the EZ?
  • Can the Aura EZ stream recordings to another device?
* Unlikely if the Google Play Store cannot be accessed and VLC or other player cannot be loaded.
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PDF copy of the FAQs attached.
 

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Personally I already use two HDR Fox T2s for recording and a Apple TV 4K gen 3 for streaming. I don't need another box. My ideal Freely solution would be to install it as an App on the Apple TV 4K.
 
I am now getting occasional failed recordings which the old Aura was King of. Disappointing that Humax haven’t turned the page.

I’m also suddenly getting double entries for all recorded programmes on my recordings list
every single time.
every single time.
I don’t know why.
I don’t know why.

EZ is a total misnomer. It is a real piece of junk. Do not buy one if you’re at all interested in Freeview.
Humax you are embarrassing as a company.
 
I think this is the beginning of the end for Humax as a going concern. It may even be the middle of the end, with the Aura being the beginning. Unless they're doing good business selling electric car chargers?
 
prpr said:
It's not the power supplies - I think they are mostly good - it's their crappy software.
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I thought I'd read, on this site, where people had replaced the plug based transformer on some models because they thought/found that it was not supplying enough current. I could, as usual, be wrong!
 
This is my first post here so please forgive me if this has already been answered.

I have received a Humax FHR-6000T Freely PVR and have a few issue that someone might be able to help me with, please:
  • I can’t set any recordings from the Freely EPG. I would not expect to be able to record streaming channels, but I would have expected the ability to record Freeview channels delivered via the aerial;
  • The only way to set recordings seems to be through the ‘Recording Guide’ which is crude in the extreme. I can’t find a sensible way to navigate it as you can’t select a channel by inputting its number, you can’t go to a specific day or date, you can’t jump forward or backwards by days or in two-hour increments. If I want to check a week ahead I have to sit with my finger on the remote while the guide moves on programme by programme.
I appreciate the fault might well be mine as I can’t imagine that Humax, or any manufacturer, would implement something so desperately poor. Or perhaps it will be updated in a future software release. It’s good to have the extra tuners, but not at the cost of such inferior software. Perhaps someone could be kind enough to tell me where I am going wrong? Many thanks!
 
Immediate said:
I can’t set any recordings from the Freely EPG. I would not expect to be able to record streaming channels, but I would have expected the ability to record Freeview channels delivered via the aerial;
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It's definitely possible, others on here have recorded things.
Immediate said:
I appreciate the fault might well be mine as I can’t imagine that Humax, or any manufacturer, would implement something so desperately poor.
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This is Humax we're talking about, it can be that bad.
 
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