Well I have been trying to work out how to transfer my recordings to my PC and after doing some research I have found a way. I got the firmware for HT8000 from the Homecast Aussie site and changed the model and software version to my HT9200DTR. The hardware is the same. It loaded and then I could FTP my files to my PC. After transferring my files, I reloaded my original firmware.
I still have few issues. Aussie is 7MHz so cannot tune the channels and when I load the aussie firmware and the front LCD does not show the messages. At the moment I can only get FTP to work but aussie site has USB software as well.
I now can transfer my recordings to my NTFS drive directly via USB connection. This has really improved the transfer speed as via FTP I was only getting about 3.5MB/sec. I can also attach a USB drive and transfer to it but it will only allow files less than 4GB in size to be transferred.
So now I have two firmwares. One to 'convert' to aussie. and one to 'revert' to NZ once I have transferred.
Next think I want to do is to see if I can modify my PVR to utilise external shared HDD.
After loading the alternate firmware, do the following:
- Load USB software on your PC - Works on Windows XP - Connect HT9200DTR to PC via USB and put HT9200DTR on standby. Use remote to put on standby. - You will see device appear on your PC. Then go to device manager and update the USB driver with the one in the Homecast software directory. - Start the USB application.
After transferring put receiver back to official firmware. It working well for me.
You will need a HexEdit the firmware file _sw_code.sgn to change the model number and firmware version. PM me with your email address if you want my copy of the firmware as I don't think I can post firmware here.
Good on you for testing and documenting this. Shame that NZ PVR users have to jump though so many hoops to do what is taken for granted in other countries.
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