Freesat Humax Foxsat HDR and changing clocks

[chris]

Our Freesat Foxsat HDR receiver seems to have suffered a bug after the recent time change. All of our scheduled recordings are now out by 1 hour ? Is this a known bug and is there a fix ? I dont remember this problem when the clocks changed in march.

 

[rolfw]

Not one I've heard of Chris, but doesn't surprise me, they're as buggy as hell.

 

[excollier]

Mine is fine. Did you leave it in stanby on Saturday night?
Buggy as hell? I've had one for a couple of years now, and I can't fault it. And with Raydon's custom firmware, it's very good.

 

[Lazarus]

No problem with mine either - Do you leave it in Standby overnight, Chris?

If not - no housekeeping.

The only bug is the pesky Subtitles after Live Pause problem which bounces back on occasion. Otherwise, it's as near perfect as one would wish.

 

[chris]

Not sure if it was on standby or not we normally leave on when we go to bed and next morning it's always in standby.

What's Raydons custom firmware ?

 

[excollier]

Take a read here. I use it to edit my channel list, and stream recordings to a computer on my home network, useful piece of work.
_http://www.avforums.com/forums/freesat/1661195-media-file-server-bundle-foxsat-hdr-release-4-0-part-3-a.html

 

[rolfw]

Ah apologies, obviously having a senior moment, was thinking of the Freeview PVRs, although still don't like the Freesat version.

 

[excollier]

Fair enough, horses for courses, I guess. But as a family friendly satellite receiver/pvr, with some flexibility for the tinkerer, then the modded Foxsat HDR ticks a lot of boxes.
Way more flexible than Sky+HD receivers as long as you don't want subscription channels from Sky, it has a CI slot and diseqc 1.1/1.2 if you want other subscription providers and multisat...halfway between Sky and a generic twin tuner pvr.
As someone who ditched Sky while still analogue, and before the start of OnDigital/DTT, then I may be biased against them, slightly.