Recent content by Owen Smith

The Humax boxes don't rotate their MAC addresses. I doubt much home AV gear does, there's no point it doesn't get used on the move. But yes if your phone is rotating MAC addresses and you give it a meaningful name on your home wifi, the name will be lost (attached to an unused MAC) next time...

That's still done within the manufacturers' allocated MAC address ranges, indeed many of them got new allocated ranges for this purpose. I don't know how they avoid clashes, possibly by listening for any duplicates and switching address if they spot one? Security wise what it means is you can't...

By definition MAC addresses are globally unique. The first 6 digits are allocated to a manufacturer and then they're required to allocate the remaining 6 digits to the products they manufacture in a unique way. If you ever find duplicate MAC addresses someone has been playing silly buggers. I...

Irrelevant, you can have as many SSIDs as you like creating wifi networks which all use one DHCP server. Wifi and DHCP have nothing to do with each other and operate at different levels of the network stack. Wifi basically acts as a replacement for network cables and ethernet switches operating...

What a strange concept having a wifi extender do DHCP. It's supposed to be extending the wifi, DHCP operates at an entirely different level in the network stack. Once the wifi extension is working, the normal DHCP server should be accessible from anywhere on the network, and adding a second one...

My understanding is Foxsats are a bit different. The hardware is older and quite a bit slower, and the custom firmware has a different history having started as an entirely separate effort by Raydon who appears to have vanished off the scene a few years ago.

I found it by running fix-disk in the first place. I believe the bad block gets remapped at that point when found, sometimes the old contents can be recovered with lots of re-reads and written to the remapped block but this one could not, which leads to a file with all working blocks but one of...

Well I renamed it to queue.db_old and rebooted and a new queue.db was created so I guess I'm good now. I'm going to run a long hard disk test. This is the first bad block ever shown on this box so it may be time to see if there are more.

It's the fact I should delete it and the custom firmware won't sort itself out automatically that is what I needed to know, thanks.

My HDR Fox T2 ground almost to a halt so I ran fixdisk and it found a corrupt block in queue.db. Do I need to do anything to recover fully ie will customised firmware now be not doing some processing eg. auto decrypt? Error given for the file was: The following file contains a corrupt block and...

Ken Bruce is essential listening for me and my parents, and Simon Mayo for me. But Freeview wasn't a good way to listen, it's a faff turning the TV and Humax on and if I recall correctly it was in mono anyway like lots of radio stations on Freeview. My best audio quality for Greatest Hits Radio...

And I directly pointed out in this thread that the encryption key can be changed, making it even easier to know it was possible.

Is C3 in the list of known parts that can fail on the wiki?

You can set the new HDR Fox T2 to the same encryption key as your failing one using the web UI. Then all encrypted recordings on the existing disc will be readable. I don't remember details of how the key is set per device but this forum may explain somewhere.

On my 2002 Mini Cooper S multi function steering wheel I have volume up/down, channel up/down and CD/radio buttons. They're on the back of the steering wheel, they fall nicely under the fingers when driving in the quarter to 3 position. They're not even labelled, but they're shaped such that you...