Recent content by mumblecake

I found a hidden limitation which can pop up when recording loads of small programs. If the amount of recorded programs exceeds 256 the box will crash on opening the play back menu and reboot.

I'm fairly certain that I found the solution which turns out to be fairly interesting (and sort of disturbing) and I shall contact Fortec Star support about it. The problem was that several things changed at once and I just assumed that me deleting programs was the cause. It turns out that...

That would make sense if there was something like an index file on the hard drive. This is however not the case. There are no hidden files anywhere and there are also no files in the core directory. This assumption is also backed up by the fact that the stb is scanning the drive every time you...

I am using a 1TB WD USB hdd with my P+ and so far had little problems with this set up. It occasionally happened after a power cut (which are far too frequent) that the hard drive wouldn't connect. I would than run scan disk on that hard drive with my windows computer which wouldn't find any...

You Sir are a hero! Had my Passion+ bricked due to what I found afterwards an unreliable USB stick which corrupted the firmware on upload. Using the program it was easy to unbrick the unit. A few hints if it is not working out of the box: I found that I had to run it in administrator mode on...