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I was over the moon yesterday when I successfully installed the Media and File Server Bundle onto our Foxsat HDR and managed to install the web interface. But I was surprised to discover the Fetch FTP client I often use on the Mac said ‘the server could not be located’ or similar. As I thought I might be missing the point, I installed first telnet_1.0_mips.opk, then TwonkyMedia. All seemed OK but I still didn’t have ftp access, so I gave up for the day.
Today, it’s all gone a bit wrong! Any attempt to access the Humax via a web browser produces a ‘server not found’ alert. I still can’t access the box via an ftp client and even telnet wouldn’t give me access. Also, when I used the remote to look at the box via the TV, some of the Menu items (such as signal diagnostics) were greyed out. That one resolved itself after about 30 minutes, for no reason I can fathom.
Similarly, before I started this process, I Pinged the box just to make sure it really was on the network. No prob. Today, it couldn’t be found via Ping, until I tried again an or so hour later, when it was fine. (I power cycled the Humax box and re-booted my MacBook Pro but that didn’t seem to be the trigger for the change.) A few hours later, I’ve just Pinged the Humax IP address again and it’s timed out.
It’s quite possible that none of this has anything to do with yesterday’s install but I’m really not sure what to do now. Given that I can only access the Humax using the TV and USB port, should I put the firmware back to the way it was, then start again?
I’m really not sure what’s happening here. The Mac we use as a server has been accessible throughout, so I don’t think it’s a router or cabling problem. All suggestions gratefully received!
I would suggest that firstly you start with the current firmware 4.0.7.
If you did flash 4.0.6 (which contains a previous frirmware version) Housekeeping would have updaraded to the Humax firmware 1.00.20 during the 03:00am housekeeping.
Even so it should respond to a ping if it has aquired an IP address. DHCP may have obtained a new address – to prevent this make an address reservation on your router.
p.s. some Foxsat menu items are greyout when the Foxsat is recording.
I’m experiencing very similar problems with the exception that I’m trying to connect from a linux box.
had to reflash with 4.0.6 to be able to connect to web interface however still can’t see samba server.
Where can we get version 4.0.7 as 4.0.6 appears to be the most recent on the downloads page as far as I can see.
Sorry but I’m a bit new to all this. Many thanks.
spadger – 8 minutes ago »
I’m experiencing very similar problems with the exception that I’m trying to connect from a linux box.
had to reflash with 4.0.6 to be able to connect to web interface however still can’t see samba server.
Where can we get version 4.0.7 as 4.0.6 appears to be the most recent on the downloads page as far as I can see.
Sorry but I’m a bit new to all this. Many thanks.
Welcome to the Forum
Follow the link contained in the first post here:
“had to reflash with 4.0.6 to be able to connect to web interface however still can’t see samba server”
samba was not one of the servers you mentioned installing.
REPASSAC – 18 minutes ago »
“had to reflash with 4.0.6 to be able to connect to web interface however still can’t see samba server”
samba was not one of the servers you mentioned installing.
Give Spadger a chance please! That was his first ever post and he mentioned it in that post.
Did not notice that it was not the OP.
Where did you guys see the link to 4.0.6 – will try and see if we can remove it.
REPASSAC – 27 minutes ago »
Did not notice that it was not the OP.
Where did you guys see the link to 4.0.6 – will try and see if we can remove it.
I thought as much, no harm done.
Link might be from our blogs, we do not appear to have 4.0.7 – will try and get that sorted asap.
Thanks Barry.
If you spot the old link and P.M. me the target – I will get it removed.
Thank you REPASSAC for your kind help. As a result – and after many wrong turns – I am 'almost' there. I still can't communicate with Foxsat via FTP but I activated Samba instead. Because it's quite hard for an SMB newbie like me to translate the instructions in the ReadMe into specific Mac actions, I've posted two screenshots below. (To get the first dialogue, you need to key Command-K.)
So far, I believe I'm past all my timing out and can't find the server problems. But I have one last frustrating problem – an alert that says there is not enough free space when I try to upload a video. Although it's a 1TB drive, I figured it might be partitioned small, so I deleted a bigger video file and tried again. Still no joy. I did upload a jpeg, so it doesn't seem to be an upload problem as such.
All informed help gratefully received.
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simoncroft – 2 hours ago »
I have one last frustrating problem – an alert that says there is not enough free space when I try to upload a video. Although it’s a 1TB drive, I figured it might be partitioned small, so I deleted a bigger video file and tried again. Still no joy. I did upload a jpeg, so it doesn’t seem to be an upload problem as such.
All informed help gratefully received.
Try smb://Foxsat-HDR/Video as your server address instead of the one you are using. Because of the /media folder is mounted on the HDR’s tmpfs file system, it’s size is seen by samba as 61.2MB only. No such restriction applies if you use the /Video share instead. There are also separate shares defined for /Music, /Photos, and /USB. (I really should update the readme.txt file)
BTW. If you upload a video it will not be playable on the HDR directly, although you can stream it to A PC using one of the media servers, Twonky or mediatomb. For it to be playable on the HDR you need two additional sidecar files. These can be created using another of my utilities AV2HDR. You probably need the MAC version (which requires mono to be installed first)
I regret I do not know much about macs. It may be an mac OS issue – I have seen posts with different results with different OS’s- I hate to suggest it but I do know there are several posts on AVForums on this subject. I do know that the samba share does not need an authenticated user.
Ahh raydon has a wiser suggestion.
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you all. For me the update to 4.0.7 worked perfectly. Thanks for your help.
The downloads page that I was talking about is here:
http://myhumax.org/blog/?page_id=166
it’s the first result when searching for “raydon humax” on google.
Apologies for the slight thread hijack. Hope OP sorts his issues.
Thanks again
To avoid any further confusion – the page linked to in previous post has been updated to include version 4.0.7
Barry – 3 hours ago »
To avoid any further confusion – the page linked to in previous post has been updated to include version 4.0.7
Hi Barry, Can you also please remove the links for all of the earlier versions as they are based on standard Humax hdf’s which have been superceded. Any installation of the contained hdf will just result in it being overwritten by the overnight OTA back to latest Humax standard firmware. Thanks
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