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Can a humax recorder work on a wi fi or Ethernet connection only, especially bbc iPlayer and ITV hub.
Ie with no sat dish connection
Jack Williamson
If your talking about a Freesat box there is no way to set it up without a dish aligned on 28.2E.
There are much easier and cheaper ways to get catch up. eg a smart phone, PC or tablet and a chromecast.
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Graham,
Thank you so much for your prompt reply.
My main reason is to be able to record .
If I can explain further,I live some time of the year in Morocco.
I can get sky tv on my 2.4mtr dish but as you may know bbc and ITV are no longer on the south beam.
I can watch them on FilmOn tv , can not record.
Hence me investigating the humax option any ideas would be greatly appreciated
Yours
Jack williamson
A Humax unit would give much the same options as a Sky unit except you would need to set it up in the UK as the freesat transponder is on a UK beam.
A smartdns service would allow most on demand but test them first (most offer a free trial to see they are setup for all you want.)
jackw – 1 minute ago »
Graham,
Thank you so much for your prompt reply.
My main reason is to be able to record .
If I can explain further,I live some time of the year in Morocco.
I can get sky tv on my 2.4mtr dish but as you may know bbc and ITV are no longer on the south beam.
I can watch them on FilmOn tv , can not record.
Hence me investigating the humax option any ideas would be greatly appreciated
Yours
Jack williamson
You can’t use a pvr to record anything other than giving it’s tuners a signal ie A dish and lnb for a freesat box or a terrestrial aerial.
None of the Humax boxes will record catch up apart from a custom firmware equipped HDR-FOX-T2 as it’s terrestrial not much use.
IP solution with SmartDNS or VPN paired with a HDMI games recorder or DVDR might work.
If you have a decent broadband in the UK you may be able to use a satellite or Freeview IP streaming server like a VBOX to access recordings and live TV.
https://www.vboxcomm.com/product-page.html
http://community.vboxcomm.com/viewtopic.php?t=5
Even if you could use the catch up services geolocking may well stop you even using them.
A smaller motorised dish should get you some channels in English, see this thread.
https://www.avforums.com/threads/satellite-in-tossa-de-mar.2177725/
If you post in the satellite threads as above, Pedro will give you some orbital points.
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