Originally Posted by scarlet:
“What's more, both could very easily be given at least acceptable workarounds with very minor changes - forcing a power up when supplied with electricity, and optionally defaulting to NOT scan on EPG changes.”
“What's more, both could very easily be given at least acceptable workarounds with very minor changes - forcing a power up when supplied with electricity, and optionally defaulting to NOT scan on EPG changes.”
I thought that would be a solution but then I realised that unless they have some way of noting that the power up was forced they would not know whether or not to switch the box off after resetting the clock (or countdown timer - whichever they use).
So you'd be left with the undesirable situation that a PF just after you went on holiday would leave the box powered up until you came back - which might have knock on effects on housekeeping.
Edit: Unless, of course, they used the fact that the clock was not set to a realistic time as a marker that it was a forced power up. Without the a lot more information about the internals of the box it's hard to know with any degree of certainty.




Though I tend to curse the electricity supply problem I have rather than the various items in the house that might be affected.
I would recommend anyone who is agitated about an affected tv recorder to do the same. You can also, if you wish, set the machine in the settings menu to go into standby around the time it does housekeeping, and then back to go back to on mode but I haven’t bothered with that myself when going away. Also, why not write to Humax about it because if there is more than a tiny minority affected the helpdesk might pass it on for someone to have a look.
