Sky Box starting to ask questions

My old sky box which is not connected to a phone line and isn't going to
be, has started to pop up a box saying 'Your Sky Box is about to
suspend, Press backup". So I press backup and it doesn't suspend.
This behaviour is unwanted. It has only appeared since the new card
was installed.

Does anyone know how to stop it doing this? I'm concerned that I won't
be able to record reliably any more.

I don't want to pay Sky any more than I am already. I don't want HD,
of Sky+.

Thanks.

R.

TheOldFellow wrote:
My old sky box which is not connected to a phone line and isn't going to
be, has started to pop up a box saying 'Your Sky Box is about to
suspend, Press backup". So I press backup and it doesn't suspend.
This behaviour is unwanted. It has only appeared since the new card
was installed.

Does anyone know how to stop it doing this? I'm concerned that I won't
be able to record reliably any more.

I don't want to pay Sky any more than I am already. I don't want HD,
of Sky+.

Thanks.

R.


Is it something to do with power management, and do you mean you are
trying to record on another device?

Auto-standby may become mandatory next year (for new products), but it
should be possible to change its setting in the menu, or set a timer so
the set comes on for the recording period.

--
Tony

"TheOldFellow" wrote in message
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My old sky box which is not connected to a phone line and isn't going to
be, has started to pop up a box saying 'Your Sky Box is about to
suspend, Press backup". So I press backup and it doesn't suspend.
This behaviour is unwanted. It has only appeared since the new card
was installed.

Does anyone know how to stop it doing this? I'm concerned that I won't
be able to record reliably any more.

I don't want to pay Sky any more than I am already. I don't want HD,
of Sky+.






surely it means suspend as in save electricity by turning off - you should
be able to turn it off in setup - certainly could when i last looked.




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Gareth.

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"TheOldFellow" wrote in message
. ..
My old sky box which is not connected to a phone line and isn't going to
be, has started to pop up a box saying 'Your Sky Box is about to
suspend, Press backup". So I press backup and it doesn't suspend.
This behaviour is unwanted. It has only appeared since the new card
was installed.

Does anyone know how to stop it doing this? I'm concerned that I won't
be able to record reliably any more.

I don't want to pay Sky any more than I am already. I don't want HD,
of Sky+.

Thanks.

R.


If your on a special contract, or receive a mult-room discount then the
discounts can be removed by you keeping the unit unplugged.
Multi-room units are checked more than single units, but the contract is
quite clear that during your first year/(whatever) that you recieve a new
subscriber discount that you must keep it connected else pay a fee.

On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:51:35 GMT
"mr deo" wrote:


"TheOldFellow" wrote in message
. ..
My old sky box which is not connected to a phone line and isn't going to
be, has started to pop up a box saying 'Your Sky Box is about to
suspend, Press backup". So I press backup and it doesn't suspend.
This behaviour is unwanted. It has only appeared since the new card
was installed.

Does anyone know how to stop it doing this? I'm concerned that I won't
be able to record reliably any more.

I don't want to pay Sky any more than I am already. I don't want HD,
of Sky+.

Thanks.

R.


If your on a special contract, or receive a mult-room discount then the
discounts can be removed by you keeping the unit unplugged.
Multi-room units are checked more than single units, but the contract is
quite clear that during your first year/(whatever) that you recieve a new
subscriber discount that you must keep it connected else pay a fee.



5th year - unchanged contract - never used a pay-to-view service. Just
bog-standard Sky. I only watch it during the Tour de France, SWMBO
watches it about 2 hours a week. So no need for any of the fancy
stuff, just some channels that aren't on Pay-Once-View.
Come to think of it, it is only doing this when I've been watching the
same channel (410) for over four hours.
R.

My old sky box which is not connected to a phone line and isn't going to
be, has started to pop up a box saying 'Your Sky Box is about to
suspend, Press backup". So I press backup and it doesn't suspend.
This behaviour is unwanted. It has only appeared since the new card
was installed.

IIRC ours started to do that about 8 months ago (we've moved house
since and no longer have Sky) - it was a "feature" they forced on
people to reduce power consumption, it wasn't something the card
change had anything to do with.

We found it too damn intrusive too, the time limit was just too short
(about 60-90 mins?) so it completely fubarred the idea of forcing it
on people in the first place as it just got turned off.

As someone else said, i'm pretty sure there's an option in the config
to disable it entirely.

"TheOldFellow" wrote in message
. ..
My old sky box which is not connected to a phone line and isn't going to
be, has started to pop up a box saying 'Your Sky Box is about to
suspend, Press backup". So I press backup and it doesn't suspend.
This behaviour is unwanted. It has only appeared since the new card
was installed.

Does anyone know how to stop it doing this? I'm concerned that I won't
be able to record reliably any more.

I don't want to pay Sky any more than I am already. I don't want HD,
of Sky+.

Thanks.

It's not an attempt by Sky to get you to spend more $,
its just their misguided attempt at saving the planet.

It's nothing to do with the new viewing card, the auto standby feature
would have downloaded itself with the last firmware update.

Press Services - 5 and turn the feature off.


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Graham.

%Profound_observation%

"mr deo" wrote in message
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"TheOldFellow" wrote in message
. ..
My old sky box which is not connected to a phone line and isn't going to
be, has started to pop up a box saying 'Your Sky Box is about to
suspend, Press backup". So I press backup and it doesn't suspend.
This behaviour is unwanted. It has only appeared since the new card
was installed.

Does anyone know how to stop it doing this? I'm concerned that I won't
be able to record reliably any more.

I don't want to pay Sky any more than I am already. I don't want HD,
of Sky+.

Thanks.

R.


If your on a special contract, or receive a mult-room discount then the
discounts can be removed by you keeping the unit unplugged.
Multi-room units are checked more than single units, but the contract is
quite clear that during your first year/(whatever) that you recieve a new
subscriber discount that you must keep it connected else pay a fee.

This is perfectly true, but what has it got to do with TOFs problem?

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Graham.

%Profound_observation%

Graham. wrote:

It's not an attempt by Sky to get you to spend more $,
its just their misguided attempt at saving the planet.

Yes, and it is misguided because, certainly with the older Sky boxes,
the consumption of the box in standby is more or less the same as when
it's 'on'.


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