OP
Black Hole
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Anyone wanting these can forward a pre-paid postage label
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What To Do with a Dead or Unwanted HDR-FOX, HD-FOX, or DTR-T1000/1010
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Many thanks for doing that. Would you be willing to pass on to me the 2TB one with a fully working remote (mine is broken)? I am south of Edinburgh, so I would need postage, unfortunately.
Is this a forum rule, or a helpful suggestion?
As far as I know it is just a helpful suggestion. I think you can negotiate any arrangement for delivery with the person offering the box.
If this is the case, happy to negotiate something that works for @florca.
Are discussions meant to be public on this thread?
You can use private conversations, but it would be helpful if the donor/seller would update this thread to say that it has gone.
Hi - will move to PM and post here when it's gone.
The upgraded (2TB drive) Humax HDR has now gone. The other one still available..
Both Humax's have now gone.
The DTR-1000 is mentioned as a source of parts, except for the main board.
However, the main board appears to be a potential source of replacement I/O modules/connectors for the FOXes. Has anyone tried to reuse these parts, like the HDMI/ethernet connector, or particularly the tuner module (Antenna In-over-Out vertical style)?
However, the main board appears to be a potential source of replacement I/O modules/connectors for the FOXes. Has anyone tried to reuse these parts, like the HDMI/ethernet connector, or particularly the tuner module (Antenna In-over-Out vertical style)?
OP
Black Hole
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An attempt to transplant a tuner can was unsuccessful, but that does not make it impossible (possibly the fault was in the tuner chips rather than the can). Connectors might be useful for adapters – I don't recall any reported faulty and in need of replacement.
Karl Harrison
New Member
I have a HDR-T2 with 1TB hard drive and remote free to anyone wants it for cost of postage or local pickup from Southampton UK
Note - A Capacitor on Motherboard has been replaced using info from post on this forum - but soldering is much to be desired. Having said that it does work.
Also on the remote the OK button does not function very often so we just used the web interface on the custom firmware.
PM if you want it and once its gone I will update this post.
Note - A Capacitor on Motherboard has been replaced using info from post on this forum - but soldering is much to be desired. Having said that it does work.
Also on the remote the OK button does not function very often so we just used the web interface on the custom firmware.
PM if you want it and once its gone I will update this post.
everthewatcher
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I really must review my collection of unused machines. There's three in addition to the 2014 V2 original and its so-far unneeded hot-swap spare, plus a HDR2000T. None cost more than £12 and the 2000T was £3 with remote in a charity shop.
I bought one of these last week for €15, I have had more than 20 Foxsat HDRs and I am impressed with the HDR Fox T2. I convert downloaded files using AV2HDR to produce the sidecar files for my Foxsats, is there an equivalent program for the HDR Fox T2? or does it play other formats with no messing?
everthewatcher
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The HDR creates them IME. There's a list of formats it will play somewhere and I'm sure someone far more knowledgeable will expand on this.
FWIW I download from YT via Tartube and YT-dlp converted to MP4 720p on a Windows machine then play them over the network.
There's one niggle I have to sort out - it won't play MP4s that are encoded as yuv420p10le (little endian). Fortunately the HDR fails gracefully and responds to Stop and I've got a VLC profile that deals with it arrived at blindly. I really must see how to get them converted as part of the download post-processing.
Owen Smith
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Aha it's not just my newly pulled out of the loft and pressed into service vertical tuners box that does the "No signal" after a soft reboot. I think with two reports we should assume they all do this until proven otherwise. My desire to avoid any more vertical tuners boxes is reinforced, fortunately they don't appear to be common. I never wanted one in the first place but when I bought my spare boxes in 2014 the Littlewoods "Grade B" in a white packaging box came as vertical tuners. Shortly after that I got a new never used box from Maplin for a third the price in their final sell off.
Owen Smith
Well-Known Member
If anyone has working spare boxes within reasonable distance of Cambridge or Holmfirth I'd be willing to drive to pick one or two up since I'm now down to just one spare between 4 in use HDR Fox T2s (and I don't know whether it works or not...)
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everthewatcher
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Agreed the 'No signal' is a bit of a pain but usually I remember to power cycle after a soft reboot. IIRC there's a pad or two marked RESET on the PCB and seeing if adding Reset push button works as anticipated has been on the list for some time.
I've not been able to resist buying HDRs when they've appeared up in local charity shops for £10-15 and the majority are the earlier twin-tuner version.