[mythtvnz] New Sky decoders

[Tony Sauri]

On 02/02/16 17:06, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> Sky have just emailed me asking to arrange a time to change me over to
> their new decoder.  So I was wondering if there is anyone out there
> who already has one of these and can tell me more about it.  
> 


I am not a Sky Customer so have no real info just hearsay .... tonight
while having a beer with a neighbour I asked if he had got his new
decoder yet.

He is not a myth user just a keen Sky user and he immediately said yes
and poured forth a number of issues that bugged him and/or his wife e.g.
the well publicised low contrast text issue.

Out of his comments there was only one that I think has relevance to
your situation.  The box goes into a low power mode if no IR inputs are
received for a period of time.  He had not actually measured time
durations and other parameters around the issue but was annoyed that if
they left the box on and went away for a period maybe an hour or more
when they returned the box had powered-down  (his term) and he had to
hit the power button on remote to bring it back to life.

He did not know if it could be configured or otherwise bypassed ... you
may need to ask the installation engineer.

Regards

Tony Sauri