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This message was authored by SwankyOrc This message was authored by: SwankyOrc

Stop Sky TV Box turning off automatically

Hello,

 

Does anyone know how to stop the Sky Box from just turning itself off after it thinks I've had enough television. It's infuriating!!

I'm sure it's some pointless battery/save the planet nonsense but it is cutting us off midway through season binges without even asking if we're 'still watching'.

 

Please tell me we can over ride this in settings or do we have to live under an eco climate change death cult of powerlessness mid way through all our shows just to appease the 0.000001% difference we make to the planet.

 

Thanks for listening! 😂

 


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This message was authored by MarkGoldsmith This message was authored by: MarkGoldsmith Answer

Re: Stop Sky TV Box turning off automatically

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A message will pop up at the top of the screen for about 60 seconds, asking you to pickup your remote to stop it going into standby mode.

 

If you don't pick up the remote or press any buttons then after a couple of hours it will go into standby. If left idle on the hone screen, or paused then it will power off after 10 minutes.

 

No these cannot currently be changed, they are built into the device to comply with various power saving legislation that these to be complied with throughout the varies countries that these devices are sold.

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This message was authored by MarkGoldsmith This message was authored by: MarkGoldsmith Answer

Re: Stop Sky TV Box turning off automatically

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A message will pop up at the top of the screen for about 60 seconds, asking you to pickup your remote to stop it going into standby mode.

 

If you don't pick up the remote or press any buttons then after a couple of hours it will go into standby. If left idle on the hone screen, or paused then it will power off after 10 minutes.

 

No these cannot currently be changed, they are built into the device to comply with various power saving legislation that these to be complied with throughout the varies countries that these devices are sold.

Sky Stream and Sky Broadband customer

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This message was authored by Exiled-in-HH This message was authored by: Exiled-in-HH

Re: Stop Sky TV Box turning off automatically


@SwankyOrc 0.000001% difference we make to the planet

 Ha .... a denier... did you mean I  instead of we 🙂

 

Every little contribution helps😉

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This message was authored by TimmyBGood This message was authored by: TimmyBGood

Re: Stop Sky TV Box turning off automatically

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@SwankyOrc 

 

As @MarkGoldsmith indicates, Glass/Stream is already distributed in (for example) Republic of Ireland and Italy and so has to continue to comply with increasingly strict EU regulation despite this not necessarily applying within the UK (although it largely does because national governments tend to agree on such things)

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This message was authored by Padam_Padam This message was authored by: Padam_Padam

Re: Stop Sky TV Box turning off automatically


@TimmyBGood wrote:

@SwankyOrc 

 

As @MarkGoldsmith indicates, Glass/Stream is already distributed in (for example) Republic of Ireland and Italy and so has to continue to comply with increasingly strict EU regulation despite this not necessarily applying within the UK (although it largely does because national governments tend to agree on such things)


Interesting looking at that Sky Italy link... some differences in how Stream is marketed there:

Two of which caught my eye:

 

You take it wherever you want

and

minimum recommended bandwidth of 10MB/s

 

So there appears to be no restriction on taking the puck to other locations to watch your subscription services, and a lot less minimum network speed is required... 

 

SwankyOrc
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This message was authored by SwankyOrc This message was authored by: SwankyOrc

Re: Stop Sky TV Box turning off automatically

Thanks for this. I don't get a reminder which is highly annoying, if you watch something for 2 hours, it just turns off. 

People have mentioned below about Sky Glass, sorry if I'm in the wrong location, I've not got Sky Glass I've got a small square black box that plugs in to our own television.

 

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This message was authored by TimmyBGood This message was authored by: TimmyBGood

Re: Stop Sky TV Box turning off automatically

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@Padam_Padam wrote:
You take it wherever you want

 

So there appears to be no restriction on taking the puck to other locations to watch your subscription services, 

 


I do wonder if that's caveated to 'anywhere' within the same address.

 

I guess it could also be that Sky isn't permitted to apply such an arbitrary restriction in that country anyway: it's never made sense here....

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This message was authored by Hrd2plse1 This message was authored by: Hrd2plse1

Re: Stop Sky TV Box turning off automatically

Our son as had a stroke and doesn't fully understand the remote control business anymore he as a flat in a care home not far from us but keeps phoning us saying the sky TV as gone off so not being able to override the auto switch off is a problem for some 

 

This message was authored by dornoch2007 This message was authored by: dornoch2007

Re: Stop Sky TV Box turning off automatically

1.  Press Home button

2. Scroll to and press Settings

3. Scroll to and press Setup 

4. Scroll to and press Preferences

5. Scroll to and press Standby mode

6. Change from ECO mode to None and then press Confirm at top of screen

 

This message was authored by TimmyBGood This message was authored by: TimmyBGood

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@dornoch2007 

 

That's for Sky Q.  This thread is about Sky Stream which has no such setting.

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This message was authored by spannernick1 This message was authored by: spannernick1

Re: Stop Sky TV Box turning off automatically

Only way around this is to stop using it during the day because that what Sky wants you to do and buy a Freeview box that has 256GB storage(August DVB502) so you can timshift live TV or with a USB Port, they are only £20/40 on eBay, that what I have done, until they fix it, at the moment you can not use it as your main TV when you should be able too, thats why it has Freeview channels included with it so it replaces the old Freeview device you were using orginally like Sky Q.

The Freeview box(August DVB502) has stand by too but you can turn it off, you need full contoll of the device your using, othewise your not fully in control of it.

Sky Stream does not go into standby at night, you can disable it, weird... 😞 its never gone on standby while I am using Netflix at 1 am in the morning, I use Netflix at night, allways have from 2018 when  got Netflix, even when I leave it on pause for 20 minutes and it never goes to standby so shows it a standby day thing.

 

And it does not always show its goes into standby mode, it just does it with no warning, Sky will have to disable this because its driving Sky Customers nuts, PCs can going into standby too but you can disable it in Windows, a PC uses more power then Sky Stream.

This message was authored by Tuffty This message was authored by: Tuffty

Re: Stop Sky TV Box turning off automatically

Exactly, what's the point of having a function to stop it turning itself off, when it's built into the device to appease 0.001 % of the population. What I'm thinking of doing is, if I go out of the room, putting sky go on, on the games console, till I come back. That way it can't turn off. The problem that we have with Sky Go, though is, if you want to watch a film through the TV guide, it says, you haven't set a PIN number for Sky Go. When you try and set a PIN number, it's the wrong website. Going back to the issue, if you don't want the box to turn itself off, you SHOULD be allowed to LEAVE IT ON!!!!!!!!!!

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