[mythtvnz] New Sky decoders

[Tony Sauri]

On 03/02/16 21:54, Tony Sauri wrote:
> 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
> 

And then I thought of Google

see this thread on GeekZone  may be a non-issue