New Sky Box keeps Switching Off.

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stevemat

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#304500 9-May-2023 13:28

When I first setup my new Sky Box, whenever I turned off the Panasonic TV with its remote, it would power off the Sky Box! This of course stops its recording programs I have set up.

I quickly disable HDMI Control & ARC on the TV and that appeared to stop the Sky Box powering off, but sometimes when I turned off my AV receiver it also turned off Sky.

So I disabled HDMI & Arc on the AMP.

I also disabled CRC on the Sky Box Android Remote settings.

But last night I noticed that the Sky Box had powered off again, I assume when I was using my TV or AV remote!

Any suggestions.

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#3074207 9-May-2023 13:32

I thought that they only went into standby and would power up to record.

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#3074210 9-May-2023 13:36

Turning off the Sky box places in a standby state - purple light. Recordings still happen when its in this state?
If you have disabled CEC on the Sky box - powering off the TV shouldnt turn it off into standby - check the power/energy settings - saw this somewhere in there.

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stevemat

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#3074218 9-May-2023 14:01

Thanks for that, I assumed it was like the old My Sky HD and wouldn't record if powered off.

I will setup something tonight and test it out. It would be a lot easier if I could turn back on HDMI Arc etc...

vexxxboy

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#3074219 9-May-2023 14:02

it kept happening on my Panasonic until i turned off Cec Contol under HDMI Cec settings in the TV, no problem since

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Jiriteach

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#3074221 9-May-2023 14:05

stevemat:

Thanks for that, I assumed it was like the old My Sky HD and wouldn't record if powered off.

I will setup something tonight and test it out. It would be a lot easier if I could turn back on HDMI Arc etc...

Previous Sky box didnt have a standby - it was on or off.

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shanes

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#3074232 9-May-2023 14:35

Jiriteach:

stevemat:

Thanks for that, I assumed it was like the old My Sky HD and wouldn't record if powered off.

I will setup something tonight and test it out. It would be a lot easier if I could turn back on HDMI Arc etc...

Previous Sky box didnt have a standby - it was on or off.

Our MySky HD would be powered off along with the TV, and it still recorded scheduled recordings while it was off.

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#3074253 9-May-2023 15:19

Our MySky HD would be powered off along with the TV, and it still recorded scheduled recordings while it was off.

Interesting - wonder if it’s dependent on which older box one has. Pretty sure last time I tested it - it didn’t but then again, we never turned off the boxes.
Just the new one is automatic.

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#3074268 9-May-2023 15:31

Jiriteach:

Our MySky HD would be powered off along with the TV, and it still recorded scheduled recordings while it was off.

Interesting - wonder if it’s dependent on which older box one has. Pretty sure last time I tested it - it didn’t but then again, we never turned off the boxes.
Just the new one is automatic.

I used to just leave it on, but while setting up a Harmony remote a few years back I set it up to power off the MySky when not in use, recordings just worked, we've got two of them and they both do it.

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#3074306 9-May-2023 17:54

Doesn’t a Panasonic have switch on and switch off settings in the hdmi menus? Maybe knock out the turn off setting

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