Hi,

Is anyone out there using a Humax satellite box ?

preferably a HD one any info before I go off and make a purchase that wont work.

OR is anyone receiving HD freesat ? what box are you using.

Hi bdm01

I use Humax Freesat and control it with Beo5 however I have to get my dealer back to tweak some of the functions.

I don't have a Humax STB of any kind, but I have done some research into the subject and the following are my conclusions:-

The Humax HD Freesat box is supported by the PUC and can be uploaded by the dealer.

All the Humax remote infra-red signals I reviewed used NEC protocol with a carrier frequency of 38Khz

The following is the protocol used by all the Humax codes I reviewed

In particular, I compared common commands used by the Humax PR HD 1000 and the Freesat HD and I found them to be the same.

As an example I looked at the UP & DOWN commands and both had the following bit string:-

UP       binary BITS=11111111 01101101 01110111 10001000

DOWN binary BITS=11111111 01101101 01010111 10101000

As you can see above all Humax STB's uses the same product address of FFB6

So, the conclusion is that for common commands, it will work, but you will find that there are a couple of FREESAT commands which will not be available.

Thanks Keith,

Thats what I call research ! I'm using a beosystem 2 so it's not PUC but STBC and I have the latest S/W

It might be easier to go for the HDCI 2000 that is on the list, but I sort of hoped that I could use most of the functions of the Foxsat box. maybe I still can but as you have explained we can't be sure.

Thanks for your input

I did some further research and looked at the available commands for the boxes you mentioned and I have listed them below.