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Humax Foxsat HDR
philnic
02-04-2012
I've been considering buying one of these to replace another Freesat device which has gone belly-up.

I've been reading through the Humax instruction manual online, and find it doesn't quite answer some of the questions in my head. I hope someone can help with these:

1. I see reference to a facility for connecting a USB device to copy files. The manual is extremely vague as to whether files can be copied in both directions, and whether there are any restrictions on file types that can be copied. Can you copy video files from the internal drive onto a USB drive? And if so, can the files be used anywhere else, or are they encrypted?

2. On my previous Freesat device, I was able to connect one of the LNB connectors to an old Sky dish, and the other LNB connector to another dish which picks up Hotbird. Would the Humax be able to cope with this, or is it strictly capable of dealing with the Freesat channels?

Thanks.
emptybox
02-04-2012
I think the answers are.

1. Yes, with certain restrictions.

2. Yes, it has a non Freesat mode which i'm fairly certain can cope with other satellites.

But you'd be better asking in the specific forum.
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=199
grahamlthompson
02-04-2012
You can copy all recordings to a usb drive. HD recordings are encrypted so will only play back on the box that recorded it. You can get round this by using the box in non-freesat mode where it record HD manually (no timers) without encryption. File larger than 4GB (most HD) require the usb device to formatted in a Linux FS format.

Uploading or playback from usb of non native video is possible but you need a bit of free software to create the required support files (AV2HDR)

Using the above mentioned non-freesat mode the box supports diseqc switching. This allows multiple lnb's to be connected via the switch. The box automatically selects the appropriate lnb for the channel you want to watch.
HDMI
05-04-2012
How do you format a usb in linux fs?
grahamlthompson
05-04-2012
Originally Posted by HDMI:
“How do you format a usb in linux fs?”

Easiest way is use the free version of Easeus Partition Manager.

http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm

A USB HDD needs EXT3 (I am told EXT2 works on usb sticks).

To read the drive on a PC you will need a Linux FS driver.

http://www.ext2fsd.com/
HDMI
05-04-2012
Thank you for the reply graham but that looks far too complicated for me
grahamlthompson
05-04-2012
Originally Posted by HDMI:
“Thank you for the reply graham but that looks far too complicated for me”

It's not any harder than formatting a drive using Windows File Explorer.
gomezz
05-04-2012
I managed to use it to format the external USB drive I have attached to my Foxsat. Only thing to watch for it takes a while if you are used to the way Windows formats things.
HDMI
07-04-2012
problem for me Graham is i dont even know what a windows file explorer is
grahamlthompson
07-04-2012
Originally Posted by HDMI:
“problem for me Graham is i dont even know what a windows file explorer is”



Click start - bottom left, click on computer in the right hand list.
emptybox
07-04-2012
Will the Foxsat not offer to format the external drive for you?
grahamlthompson
07-04-2012
Originally Posted by emptybox:
“Will the Foxsat not offer to format the external drive for you?”

No only the Freeview-HD boxes will format usb drives for you.
gomezz
07-04-2012
Originally Posted by HDMI:
“problem for me Graham is i dont even know what a windows file explorer is”

It is actually called just Windows Explorer but was formerly called File Mangler.
grahamlthompson
07-04-2012
Originally Posted by gomezz:
“It is actually called just Windows Explorer but was formerly called File Mangler.”

I love the typo . Please don't change it
gomezz
07-04-2012
It was no typo. Everyone who suffered at its hands called it that.
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