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I can’t believe that all timers are lost when doing a channel re-tune on the HDR FOX T2. Lots of other PVRs only lose timers on channels which change during this process (e.g. Topfield running MyStuff). I’m a programmer myself and I can’t believe that Humax can’t write a simple bit of code to keep timers on channels which haven’t changed in the re-tune. What sort of people are they employing?
musictechguy – 20 minutes ago »
I can’t believe that all timers are lost when doing a channel re-tune on the HDR FOX T2. Lots of other PVRs only lose timers on channels which change during this process (e.g. Topfield running MyStuff). I’m a programmer myself and I can’t believe that Humax can’t write a simple bit of code to keep timers on channels which haven’t changed in the re-tune. What sort of people are they employing?
In the main, Korean people I would think, but if you install the custom firmware you need never lose your timers again.
I agree!
I am so annoyed as I lost the live episode of Emmerdale tonight,and some other programmes, due to the flipping thing carrying out a retune even though I had done it earlier!
I kept getting the pop up box and didn’t realise it would automatically carry out a retune wiping out my timers if I didn’t put it in standby.
Isn’t custom firmware for the Foxsat?
Reisser – 1 hour ago »
Isn’t custom firmware for the Foxsat?
No; there is (different) custom firmware for FOXSAT and the HD Freeview boxes.
raydon – 12 hours ago »
musictechguy – 20 minutes ago »
I can’t believe that all timers are lost when doing a channel re-tune on the HDR FOX T2. Lots of other PVRs only lose timers on channels which change during this process (e.g. Topfield running MyStuff). I’m a programmer myself and I can’t believe that Humax can’t write a simple bit of code to keep timers on channels which haven’t changed in the re-tune. What sort of people are they employing?
In the main, Korean people I would think, but if you install the custom firmware you need never lose your timers again.
So what’s the story on the custom software? I guess unsupported by Humax. How many use it?
So what’s the story on the custom software? I guess unsupported by Humax.
Correct.
How many use it?
See for yourself, have a look HERE.
Opps – deleted – did not notice this was a T2 thread.
musictechguy – 1 day ago »
I can’t believe that all timers are lost when doing a channel re-tune on the HDR FOX T2. Lots of other PVRs only lose timers on channels which change during this process (e.g. Topfield running MyStuff). I’m a programmer myself and I can’t believe that Humax can’t write a simple bit of code to keep timers on channels which haven’t changed in the re-tune. What sort of people are they employing?
You say that “Lots” of other PVR’s lose timers when retuning, yet only mention One, and that one is running additional software to make it behave that way. A Topfield running native firmware also loses it’s timers when retuning, so what are these “Lots” of other PVR’s then?
It has already been pointed out to you that the customised firmware will allow you to back up and restore your scheduled timers.
As much as I’m sure the customised software is good, I paid for a premium product in the expectation that it functions within spec. So far, I’ve had signal break-up not experienced with my previous PVR and lost timers. Hardly a premium quality product. Installing customised software comes with risks, e.g. invalidating the warranty.
I thought that you said you had a HDR-FOX T2 ? I would class this as a bargain basement priced product, certainly not a premium priced product.
Perhaps you should return it for a refund as you are clearly not happy with it, and perhaps you should pass your comments onto Humax.
You have still not come up with any PVR’s that don’t lose their schedules when performing a retune.
I’m pretty sure my very old vestel PVR used to keep them..
My fathers Philips does when it does a partial scan to get new channels. When you do a full scan they look like they have gone but everything runs very slow for a while and then some time later all the schedule recordings are back. I can only assume it is re-building the schedule in the background after a full scan. Nice if the stock firmware did something like this
:Andy
Oh I almost forgot I bought a Philips rather than Humax because it was quite a bit cheaper, had good cvustomer reviews and my Father would not link it to his home network as he never uses online services like iplayer.
Andy
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