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Hello. I live in central Scotland and have just taken delivery of a new Foxsat HDR 500GB to replace my ageing Sky+ box. Very impressed by the ease of setup and the picture quality.
The manual is OK for setup and basic functions, but non existent on anything beyond that. Could you point me in the direction of guidance on the following which don’t appear in the manual:
* series link recording
* internet connection and the Humax portal
* access to BBC iPlayer
* any other advanced functions I may not be aware of
One other big issue is that the HDR box seems to have blown up my expensive Cyrus amp, but I have posted about that separately on the Freesat forum. Big warning to other users
Thanks in advance
Series Link Recording: Press OK on the EPG entry and it should offer to record it as a series.
BBC iPlayer access: Press Red (or Text) on any BBC channel and iPlayer should be listed on the home Red Button menu assuming you have connected the box to your router with an ethernet cable.
Advanced functions? Nah! The Humax UI is like stepping back into the stone age compared to my Topfield / MyStuff Freeview (sadly only SD) PVRs. Unless you count access to ITV Player which you get to through switching to a channel in the 900 range (should be obvious which one).
But you can connect an external USB hard drive to offload recordings to and it even lets you play them from there.
And there is Raydon’s modded firmware and utilities which let you do other funky stuff.
And access to non-Freesat channels (Now and Next info only).
OK, so there are quite a few advanced features to play with then
OK, thanks. I’ll check out the EPG access.
Is there any easy way to connect the box via Wi-Fi as it’s going to be very difficult to get an ethernet cable from my router to where the HDR is
Of course. Forgot about the plug option. Definitely the way to go, thanks
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