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My old Pace box turns off by itself after about two hours. No problem if watching the channel at the time because a warning box pops up on screen. But I lost some recordings because I was watching something else at the time. Is this a standard feature of Ѕky software or is there a setting I can use to stop this happening. | ||
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Blog Entries: 1 My System: Sky UK. FTA analogue & digital satellite from 6 fixed dishes (5E/7E/9E/10E/13E/16E/ 19E/23E/28E) Pace MSS100, Echostar IP3000VA, Technomate TM-1000D, Dreambox 7020S  The last noble sat warrior to fly the olden flag of Analogue | Auto power off was enabled on all boxes on the last software update. You can turn it off in the menus somewhere. It will turn off after about 4 hours of no button presses during the day or 2 hours at night. | ||
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My System: Mostly gathering dust cos there's no room for dishes here... :( The Sleepy Hollow pollracle has spoken! | Makes me wonder what the point of the feature is, if everyone's switching it off... That said, what does a sky box do when it is "off"? Cos the tuner's still active and receiving data, the processor and memory is still active, so, why bother with an auto-shutoff feature when all it does is turn off the video-output and turn the green light to red?  If you want to save energy, switch it off at the wall!!!  | ||
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There is a risk of missing Firmware Updates, but if that is borne in mind, you can save around 30W of juice. No "Low Power in Standby" mode for Sky Boxes yet - and as you surmise, the difference in consumption between On and Standby is negligible. Flannel and fluff by Sky to make their Green Credentials look good. They aren't. | |||
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