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Old 10-11-2015, 17:30
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It'd certainly help if there were instructions. The manual doesn't go into any of this!
It's changed its mind again and isn't polling every 20 minutes any more. I give up and will consider remote record a no-go. I don't think it's a box fault, that's more of a software thing - knowing that it's Linux based and how much of a pain that is to work with, I'll blame that
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Old 03-12-2015, 16:59
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Well that was weird, i watched another channel, while recording another last night, and ive only got the one input.
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Old 03-12-2015, 17:01
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Well that was weird, i watched another channel, while recording another last night, and ive only got the one input.
Not weird at all, as long as they are on the same polarity/band it's perfectly possible.
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Old 03-12-2015, 17:07
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Not weird at all, as long as they are on the same polarity/band it's perfectly possible.
Ahh right, i didn't know that, thanks Nigel

I thought i was going mad
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Old 05-12-2015, 05:06
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How come you can't record 2 channels and watch a recording at the same time on a humax like you can on a sky box? Humax are supposed to be the best maker of freesat recorders...
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Old 05-12-2015, 12:02
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How come you can't record 2 channels and watch a recording at the same time on a humax like you can on a sky box? Humax are supposed to be the best maker of freesat recorders...
You can. Also unlike Sky you can also watch a 3rd live channel while recording two. You can even the record the 3rd channel from the beginning of the programme after one of the recordings completes. If both channels happen to be on the same transponder (eg BBC 1 HD and BBC 2 HD), then you can watch any other channel on the epg.

Grouty has only got 1 cable connected, if it was a Sky box you could only record 1 channel at any one time and not be able to watch any others

You can even record two channels and watch a third (with some restrictions) using only a single cable. (Handy if you can't get a second cable).

Playback of recordings is always available however many recordings you have in progress (Playback does not need a tuner).
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Old 05-12-2015, 12:13
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Well that was weird, i watched another channel, while recording another last night, and ive only got the one input.
Both tuners are internally connected to the same coax cable, despite having only 1 cable you have two working tuners.

Try recording BBC1 HD and BBC 2 HD at the same time and watching Channel 4 HD at the same time.

Ignore the bit about time shifting not being avallable (it is on freetime boxes)

https://myhumax.org/forum/topic/what...-1-or-2-cables
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Old 05-12-2015, 15:48
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You can. Also unlike Sky you can also watch a 3rd live channel while recording two. You can even the record the 3rd channel from the beginning of the programme after one of the recordings completes. If both channels happen to be on the same transponder (eg BBC 1 HD and BBC 2 HD), then you can watch any other channel on the epg.

Grouty has only got 1 cable connected, if it was a Sky box you could only record 1 channel at any one time and not be able to watch any others

You can even record two channels and watch a third (with some restrictions) using only a single cable. (Handy if you can't get a second cable).

Playback of recordings is always available however many recordings you have in progress (Playback does not need a tuner).
That's great. The richer sounds website must have it wrong. My sky is finishing at the end of this month so I will be buying a 1tb box from RS.... Just waiting to see if the price will come down a bit at Christmas.
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Old 07-12-2015, 00:52
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Humax Freesat boxes are a lot more reliable than the Sky boxes. Im on my second Humax freesat box. I kept the first one for nearly 5 years after cancelling Sky. The box was still working fine but I fancied upgrading to the White wifi box I think is a 1000S and never had a problem with either.. Some of the Sky boxes I used were made by Amstrad and I had a couple of those replaced by Sky in the 3 years I was with them. Saved a lot of money by cancelling Sky
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Old 08-12-2015, 09:56
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I've had my HDR 1000S for a while now and I'm very pleased with the picture quality. Yes, the clicky remote is very tiresome, but other than that, all is fine except...

I'm sure when I bought the HDR the Freetime facility allowed me to see what what was available from the day before. But now Freetime jumps back a whole week; it won't let me see what was on yesterday. Have I missed something? Done my best to search this forum and elseshere but can't find mention of anyone having the same problem.

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Old 08-12-2015, 12:26
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I've had my HDR 1000S for a while now and I'm very pleased with the picture quality. Yes, the clicky remote is very tiresome, but other than that, all is fine except...

I'm sure when I bought the HDR the Freetime facility allowed me to see what what was available from the day before. But now Freetime jumps back a whole week; it won't let me see what was on yesterday. Have I missed something? Done my best to search this forum and elseshere but can't find mention of anyone having the same problem.
Working OK on my HDR1000S. From 108 left lists earlier today

10:00 Homes Under The Hammer
09:15 Sister Rita To The Rescue
00:25 Weather for the Week Ahead

Left again lists a load of content from yesterday
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Old 08-12-2015, 19:10
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So it's just me then - wonder why? I'll do a factory reset perhaps. Hopefully won't lose my recordings.
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Old 10-12-2015, 12:02
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Tried to do a factroy reset but many functions of the settings menu weren't displayed. Thought I'd better try a 'switch it off and switch it back on again' routine. Switched off the power, waited a bit, switched it back on.

Now all the settings options are available and Freetime works just as it should.

No need now for a reset
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Old 10-12-2015, 14:17
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Tried to do a factroy reset but many functions of the settings menu weren't displayed. Thought I'd better try a 'switch it off and switch it back on again' routine. Switched off the power, waited a bit, switched it back on.

Now all the settings options are available and Freetime works just as it should.

No need now for a reset
Some settings are disabled when the unit is recording or about to record.
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Old 10-12-2015, 21:04
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Some settings are disabled when the unit is recording or about to record.
It was early afternoon, nothing recording, nothing set to record. I'm in no way a fan of daytime telly!
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Old 27-12-2015, 16:32
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I finally decided to replace my old Foxsat HDR with an 1100s. It's a significant improvement in software and speed of the interface! I'm very pleased. It flies through the menus where the Foxsat plodded.
For some reason the white one is £20 cheaper in Currys at the moment and might even hide dust better. I have no issue with how it feels. Yes it's a bit creaky, but it's going to sit on the shelf and be left alone. I changed my Harmony One remote over to the new device so I have little comment on the 1100s remote. It was a bit clicky and unfamiliar but I prefer my Harmony to anything.
I can live without the lcd display easily. My Raspberry Pi has no display panel and it's never been an issue. The colour LED on the 1100s seems to show the power and recording status and that's fine. It also responds to the remote a lot better than the old Foxsat, which I had to leave the front flap open on just to get the remote to work normally.
The smaller size is fine. I used to like all my boxes to be 43cm wide and stacked them up with my amp and dvd player, but it's not essential.
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Old 07-01-2016, 12:19
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I've had my foxsat HDR for nearly 7 years and i've been very happy - especially with the extra functionality from Radon's brilliant software.

When this box eventually gives up on me I'd like to replace it with one that gives me the same functionality but as i understand it, custom firmware isn't possible with the 1100s so i'll be limited to whatever the box is capable of out of the packaging.

I go into hospital a lot and download .ts files to my laptop to watch offline. Is there any way to achieve the same with the hdr 1100s?

I also use the webif for setting up and managing recordings and the remote add-in for channel changing and volume. How much of this can be done with the free app?

Finally, i see it has wifi for home networking but what does that actually allow you to do? At the moment it just looks like you can watch catchup tv on your pc via wifi and the box.

Any advice gratefully received.
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Old 07-01-2016, 13:03
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I've had my foxsat HDR for nearly 7 years and i've been very happy - especially with the extra functionality from Radon's brilliant software.

When this box eventually gives up on me I'd like to replace it with one that gives me the same functionality but as i understand it, custom firmware isn't possible with the 1100s so i'll be limited to whatever the box is capable of out of the packaging.

I go into hospital a lot and download .ts files to my laptop to watch offline. Is there any way to achieve the same with the hdr 1100s?

I also use the webif for setting up and managing recordings and the remote add-in for channel changing and volume. How much of this can be done with the free app?

Finally, i see it has wifi for home networking but what does that actually allow you to do? At the moment it just looks like you can watch catchup tv on your pc via wifi and the box.

Any advice gratefully received.
No way to export content from the Freetime boxes. Only way would be to use a DVDR to record from the analogue outputs. You can view external content stored on other kit on a freetime box (It has a DLNA client but no server).

The app can be used as a wireless remote control.
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Old 07-01-2016, 16:17
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No way to export content from the Freetime boxes. Only way would be to use a DVDR to record from the analogue outputs. You can view external content stored on other kit on a freetime box (It has a DLNA client but no server).

The app can be used as a wireless remote control.
Thanks Graham.

and the wifi is just used to stream to or from the box from other network sources?
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Old 07-01-2016, 16:23
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Thanks Graham.

and the wifi is just used to stream to or from the box from other network sources?
To the box only, If for instance you had the Custom Firmware on your Foxsat and one of the DLNA server packages you could watch any recordings that are not encrypted on the freetime box, but not vice versa.
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Old 07-01-2016, 23:05
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To the box only, If for instance you had the Custom Firmware on your Foxsat and one of the DLNA server packages you could watch any recordings that are not encrypted on the freetime box, but not vice versa.
so I couldn't stream a recording from the box to another device but I could display a video file from my laptop on my tv via the box?

You can add a usb external hard drive to the box and transfer recordings to it like you can with the foxsat hdr but am i right in thinking they are encrypted so I could put the external drive on my laptop and watch programmes?
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Old 08-01-2016, 00:12
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You can. Also unlike Sky you can also watch a 3rd live channel while recording two. You can even the record the 3rd channel from the beginning of the programme after one of the recordings completes. If both channels happen to be on the same transponder (eg BBC 1 HD and BBC 2 HD), then you can watch any other channel on the epg.

Grouty has only got 1 cable connected, if it was a Sky box you could only record 1 channel at any one time and not be able to watch any others

You can even record two channels and watch a third (with some restrictions) using only a single cable. (Handy if you can't get a second cable).

Playback of recordings is always available however many recordings you have in progress (Playback does not need a tuner).

I checked this out a while back, on my HDR1000S, single input, recording one channel, watching / recording another, and made a list of all "compatible" channels, mostly BBC & ITV at the same time.

Tonight there should have been a conflict between BBC HD News at Ten, and ITV HD Jericho, which had a 30 minute overlap at 10pm, both recorded OK.

However, BBC HD News recorded was the BBC WALES HD version, just for tonight

My list:

OK CHANNELS BBC 1 BBC 2 BBC 3 BBC 4 ITV CHANNEL 4 E4

OR

ITV CHANNEL 5 5 USA
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Old 08-01-2016, 10:00
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so I couldn't stream a recording from the box to another device but I could display a video file from my laptop on my tv via the box?

You can add a usb external hard drive to the box and transfer recordings to it like you can with the foxsat hdr but am i right in thinking they are encrypted so I could put the external drive on my laptop and watch programmes?
You can use a freetime box as a media player, both over your network or using it's usb ports. You can also upload this content to the internal hard disk. It goes to a seperate partition from the encrypted recording one. It's not encrypted and you could if you wish export again to another usb drive. You cannot copy the recordings the box made natively to anything else.
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Old 08-01-2016, 10:15
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I checked this out a while back, on my HDR1000S, single input, recording one channel, watching / recording another, and made a list of all "compatible" channels, mostly BBC & ITV at the same time.

Tonight there should have been a conflict between BBC HD News at Ten, and ITV HD Jericho, which had a 30 minute overlap at 10pm, both recorded OK.

However, BBC HD News recorded was the BBC WALES HD version, just for tonight

My list:

OK CHANNELS BBC 1 BBC 2 BBC 3 BBC 4 ITV CHANNEL 4 E4

OR

ITV CHANNEL 5 5 USA

Something wrong here.

BBC 1 HD (England) and ITV HD are both low band vertical channels (LBV) and would be acessible at the same time with a single cable.

BBC 1 HD Wales is Low band horizontal so to record another channel at the same time it would also have to be low band horizontal. All ITV and STV HD channels are low band vertical.


102 BBC Two HD 10847 V LBV
106 BBC Three HD 10847 V LBV
108 BBC One HD 10847 V LBV
600 CBBC HD 10847 V LBV
972 BBC One HD 10847 V LBV
978 BBC One NI HD 10847 V LBV

119 ITV1 HD 11097 V LBV
119 ITV1 London HD 11097 V LBV
119 ITV1 Granada HD 11097 V LBV
119 ITV Meridian South HD 11097 V LBV
119 ITV1 Central West HD 11097 V LBV

119 STV HD 11068 V LBV

973 BBC One ScotHD 11023 H LBH
976 BBC One Wal HD 11023 H LBH

You can't make a simple list because what the second tuner can record is determined by the channel tuner 1 is using.

Assuming you have BBC 1 HD England, any of the following channels will be recordable. ((assuming of course the channel is on your epg where it's a postcode selectable one)

121 Channel 4 + 1
122 E4
123 E4 + 1
124 More4
975 Channel 4 + 1
103 ITV
113 ITV2
117 ITV4
118 ITVBe
155 ITV4+1
602 CITV
977 ITV London
103 ITV London
103 ITV Granada
103 ITV Anglia East
103 ITV Central West
101 BBC One W Mid
201 BBC Parliament
703 BBC Radio 3
704 BBC Radio 4 FM
707 BBC 6Music
708 BBC Radio 4 Ex
710 BBC Radio 4 LW
711 BBC World Sv
712 BBC R Scotland
713 BBC RnGaidheal
714 BBC R Wales
715 BBC R Cymru
716 BBC R Ulster
717 BBCRadioFoyle
952 BBC One E Mid
953 BBC One East E
963 BBC One W Mid
964 BBC One Wales
967 BBC One Yk&Li
971 BBC Two Wales
147 BBC Three
212 BBC NEWS
607 CBBC
957 BBC One NI
958 BBC One Oxford
961 BBC One South
962 BBC One S West
969 BBC Two NI
102 BBC Two HD
106 BBC Three HD
108 BBC One HD
600 CBBC HD
972 BBC One HD
978 BBC One NI HD
115 ITV3
116 ITV3+1
731 talkSPORT
112 STV East + 1
103 STV North
103 STV Central West
103 STV Central East
112 ITV Granada + 1
103 ITV Channel TV
119 STV HD
119 ITV1 HD
119 ITV1 London HD
119 ITV1 Granada HD
119 ITV Meridian South HD
119 ITV1 Central West HD
126 Channel 4 HD
127 4seven
206 RT HD
209 NHK WORLD HD
503 B4U Music
692 Revelation
694 GOD Channel
142 True Ent
153 True Drama
302 True Christmas
303 True Movies 2
500 Chart Show TV
501 The Vault
502 Dancember
504 Starz TV
603 POP
605 Tiny Pop
604 Kix
606 Kix +1
609 Tiny Pop +1
120 S4C Digidol
134 CBS Drama
213 CHANNELS24
870 BABESTATION
693 ISLAM CHANNEL
695 Sonlife TV
809 TJC
135 CBS Reality
149 Food Network
151 Food Network+1
161 YourTV
205 France 24
208 Bloomberg TV
156 more>movies
210 CNBC
806 JML Direct
693 ISLAM CHANNEL
695 Sonlife TV
809 TJC
815 Thane
411 Fashion One
724 Absolute
726 Absolute 80s
729 JazzFM
790 TWR
511 VIVA
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Old 08-01-2016, 11:01
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You can use a freetime box as a media player, both over your network or using it's usb ports. You can also upload this content to the internal hard disk. It goes to a seperate partition from the encrypted recording one. It's not encrypted and you could if you wish export again to another usb drive. You cannot copy the recordings the box made natively to anything else.
Thanks for your advice,Graham. I can see no way to take programmes into hospital with me to watch so when my foxsat falls over I guess i'll have to invest in some boxed sets!
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