Home cinema - Sky 'auto standby' to roll out from today

On 23 Mar, 22:43, Mike Henry wrote:
In .com, "DVDfever

Dom" wrote:
On 23 Mar, 21:12, Mike Henry wrote:
Yes - experiment with changing the speed to "medium", failing that
"slow". The 3 speed settings affect the pause before the channel digits,
as well as the pauses between digits. "Slow" has the longest pause.

It happened on all three.

Pity :(.

The only thing the speed setting controlled
was how fast it did the digits, but even on slow it had the same
problem.

Let me assure you that the speed setting does affect the pause before
the channel digits. The per-digit delay occurs before each digit. Eg for
code 20016
power-on pause=800ms
Fast pause=150ms
Medium pause=350ms
Slow pause=750ms

a change is sent as "Sky", power-on pause, speed pause, 1st digit,
speed pause, 2nd digit, speed pause, 3rd digit.

Setting it to slow gives a pause of 1550ms after the Sky key because the
1st digit's pause is added to the power-on pause.

Ta for the info. I wasn't doubting you, but on initial panic over the
situation I didn't spot the additional pausing the slower speeds
caused :)

Anyway if it still doesn't work on slow, you have two choices
1. Reluctantly accept that you'll miss the first recording after the box
crashes
2. Run a shell script to hack the delay to make it 800ms.

I don't have a hacked TiVo so it'll have to be the first option, but
the problem is to do with the blue screen which appears when you
change channels and was introduced with the last update (some time
ago) as it never did it before that.

Basically, what happens is that the Sky button turns the digibox on,
the box comes on to the blue screen with the now/next info at the
bottom for the channel it was on previously (eg. BBC1) and then the
first digit of the next channel appears - in this case, '1' for '102'.

Then the picture comes on for the channel I was watching previously
(BBC1, as mentioned above), but because that's happened in that order,
the instruction for the first '1' has disappeared, so it only
registers '02' which is no good at all.

Is there a workaround for this?

(I posted this just now but it hasn't appeared. However I've since
found a solution)

I've altered the Searcn and Scan banner timeout from 0 seconds to 5
seconds. Bit of a pain as I don't want it hanging around but when the
picture appears, it doesn't go immediately so doesn't knacker the
channel changing, even on fast :)