I could indeed. For the last three days as well. Only this morning I suspected and realised what was happening and was adamant to fix it. I will run you through the timeline:
Saturday evening, I turn on my mini box and suddenly notice the settings I have set to my liking on my mini box had changed. I thought this was strange but thought maybe some kind of technical hiccup perhaps caused by a recent update, so I started changing the settings back. (Things like disabling auto download etc. and high contrast mode).
I then noticed there were tons of random recordings and series records set and my disk space was almost full. But I thought OK this must be from the settings changing and somehow it downloaded all this throughout the day due to the auto download being enabled. Had to mass delete everything which was super annoying because as we know, even after all these years there is still no convenient ‘delete all’ option for multiple shows at once or ‘Empty’ for the ‘deleted’ section.
Sunday morning, I noticed something; I couldn’t find a single recording or download I had on the box before all these random recordings showed up! That was my first clue. I was annoyed because I thought whatever technical fault occurred with my box obviously caused my existing box to fully reset or something and lose all my media. So, at this point I went downstairs to the main box and to my surprise I could see nothing had changed at all on my main box. The settings were all the same, my actual recordings and downloads were all there and no random recordings anywhere to be seen. I unplugged my mini box for the next two days and planned to come back to investigate it properly when I had some time.
Tuesday morning (today), was finally when I had some time to look in to this. I reconnected the mini box and it was still connecting to another box that wasn’t mine. More recordings were back on there and I could still access and play them as normal. And I knew now that I had to be connecting to someone else’s box because I’m fully aware the mini itself cannot store anything as it doesn’t have a hard drive as it merely just connects you to your main box. After several reboots and manually trying to “Reactivate” the connection I was still constantly finding myself connected back to this mystery box. I even checked the viewing card number via the settings and could indeed see it was not my viewing card number.
So I only just resolved this just over an hour ago by basically completely disconnecting my home internet (virgin media) and unplugging the main box and mini box. Only then did my mini box reconnect back to my actual main box and everything was back to normal. Fortunatley I am quite tech savvy and was able to troubleshoot and resolve this accordingly myself but I imagine the majority of people that will encounter this will be completley lost and confused. In fact, going through many other similar forums I feel like a lot of it has gone unnoticed and people are still acciedntally staying connected to a neighoburs box and are just reporting "random recordings" showing up and attributing it to a bug based around recording schedules because no one would suspect it should be that easy to accidentally connect to someone else’s box.
It is rather worrying that it was so easy to inadvertently access other peoples boxes. I feel bad that I unknowingly completely ruined someone else's (assuming one of the neighbours) record schedules and also deleted their recordings/downloads. And what if there was no pin set? Would I have been able to make store purchases on their account? Crazy!
I'm also aware when other people have encountered this and have resolved by taking the same steps I did, then encountered the issue again not long after. So I hope Sky devs/engineers are aware?
