Comments on: Humax Freesat HD

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:05:10 +0000

No Signal.
I bought a Humax FOXSAT-HDR Freesat+, its one of the Twin Tuner boxes. I did not have Sky so I also bought a Satellite dish installation pack – Satgear SK35 Sky/Freesat Complete Self-Install Kit – New Mk4 Sky Satellite Mini Dish kit with Quad LNB, fixings and 20m twin cable. On advice I also bought a Satellite Finder.
Have fixed to wall, connected two of the cables as per instructions. Tried satellite finder and it makes lots of promising noises but ultimately I get no reception (i.e. 0%). We have tried changing direction lots of times and I could understand if I was getting 1% or something but we just keep getting 0%.
Tried swapping the cables around in the LNB. Tried the same in the Freesat box. I note however that the box is automatically showing that I have a single connection rather than a dual. Therefore, tried the single connection rather than the Dual and still nothing.
How can I confirm where satellite is? If problem is with cabling, the box, etc etc. Any ideas?

By: Jane

Jane — Sun, 17 May 2009 21:41:02 +0000

Just moved house and there is a sky dish already installed and there is 2 wires coming into the house – excuse my ignorance by the way !

My question is will Freesat + HD work in full HD using the existing Sky dish ?

I’ve got a 2 year old Thomson sky box which I am currently using (it’s the standard sky, nothing fancy) and it works so how can I tell if I have the correct sort of dish for HD if I need to know that sort of info ?

Sorry, slight error – there are 2 wires coming into one room and another wire or 2 going into a further room (sky dish wires).

I already have a HD ready TV and would like to view available HD channels and just need to know if I need to alter my dish or whatever the LNB is to get HD in addition to buying Freesat + HD.

Is Freesat + HD all I need to buy ?

Sorry but I’m not technical at all but any plain and simple help would be much appreciated.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:52:02 +0000

You can only get content off the PVR by connecting a USB drive and copying it over. LAN connection doesn’t work.

By: Andy McKenna

Andy McKenna — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:30:06 +0000

I was hoping to be able to connect to either of the harddrives in my HUmax HD with a network cable through the ethernet socket so I can find the MPeg4 files which I have recorded. I would like to move them to my Mac so I can burn the programmes to watch on DVD when I want, but not keep them on the hard-drives.

Do I need to work out what the device’s IP address is first, or do I need to assign it an IP address ?

Or am I just wishful thinking and the market is gonna force me to buy an HD DVD recorder ?

By: Wayne

Wayne — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:19:35 +0000

Thanks all, I’ll get to it!

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 06:53:08 +0000

Thanks Joey, best wishes to Ernie.

By: J Deacon

J Deacon — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:14:43 +0000

I’ve done exactly as Wayne has done and it works a treat. Although I didn’t wire it myself – the only thing I have read if doing it yourself is to be careful when when wiring in the LNB end, you dont want to knock the dish out of alignment!

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:35:19 +0000

Short answer: Yes you can! You just need two new cables run from the remaining LNBs direct into the back of a Freesat box in the other room.

Nice and simple.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:12:48 +0000

Hi Pete,

This may have already been covered but I’ll ask anyway.
I currently run Sky+ and intend to keep doing so but I don’t want to fork out for multi-room in order to get satelite viewing into my son’s playroom. My current dish has 4 coax connections (pressumably a quad LNB) with 2 currently being used by the Sky+ receiver, so my questions is if I am able to purchase a Freesat box (Humax HD freesat Receiver for example) and make use of the reamining 2 coax connections to run Freesat?
Your wisdom would be appreciated.

Regards,
Wayne

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:05:25 +0000

You didn’t buy my TiVo did you Keith? I’m sure I sold it to someone called Keith.

Anyway, yes Freesat does work with TiVo, check out this web site.
http://www.tivocentral.co.uk/freesat/

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:58:42 +0000

Hi Pete
I want to ditch Sky and go either Freeview or Freesat. My main query is that I have a TiVo – I know that Freeview is compatible with this but is Freesat? I also have an analogue DVD recorder, so my preference would be to have Freesat recording on the TiVo and Freeview recording on the DVD.
Thanks for any advice
Keith

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:01:16 +0000

I’d say that a very, very large THEORETICALLY could be thrown in there. You would be looking at having the VCR set to the AV channel, drop in signal quality too but it’s *possible*.

Be a good idea to drop an e-mail to Humax support, they are very helpful and should be able to give a definitive answer.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:53:05 +0000

Just had a thought. Can I put the scart connection from the Humax into my vcr, and take the RF output from that vcr to our kitchen tv? I suppose I should just try and see if it works, but do not know if the vcr allows scart-in to rf-out.

Mike

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:52:54 +0000

Mike I would suggest going somewhere like Maplin and see if they have anything. A brief google search turns up devices that will convert other connectors like component into RF but they aren’t cheap!

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:29:28 +0000

Pete,

My existing installation uses an elderly Skybox to receive free-to-view channels. Connection to the main TV is by Scart, and I have a co-ax output from the box to a second TV in our kitchen. I wish to upgrade to the Humax Foxsat HD and a suitable HD TV, but to retain a link to the kitchen TV. Problem is I cannot change the cable from co-ax to anything else (it is buried under a tiled floor). Is there an adapter that would convert one of the outputs from the Humax to suit a co-ax cable?

By: james

james — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:13:00 +0000

hi pete willdo, i new it was to good to be true, thanks for your help regards james

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:01:48 +0000

James be sure to complain to the manager of the Curry’s where that idiot told you that. FreeSAT, the SAT being the important part. If you want to use an aerial then it’s Freeview.

You’ll need a proper satellite dish and you will need it to be professionally installed as well.
Take the box back to Curry’s, get your money back and then go somewhere decent like John Lewis and buy one with dish installation.

By: james

james — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:25:43 +0000

hi pete
can u help me please, ive recently upgraded my tv to a hdtv and got a humax foxsat-hd box to go with it after being told by the guy in currys that i could use an interior amplified TV antenna and pick up a signal, however i get no hd signal, if i need a dish can i just buy one and fit it myself and if so what kind do i need
i’d be gr8full 4 any help
regards james

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:27:59 +0000

Freesat will give better picture quality than Freeview, without a doubt. I THINK they work in RoI, but best to check on http://www.freesat.co.uk on that one Jadie.

By: jadie

jadie — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:54:38 +0000

Or if i decide to get a freeview box. would the picture quality be great for a hd tv?

for a freeview box, would there be any need for a sat dish?
thank