Re: Dixons ITVdigiboxes

[Stuart Booth <lists@xxxxxxx> (Stuart Booth)]

Doogie Brodie <ukhad@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>Stuart Booth (Stuart Booth) wrote:
>> My old ONdodgy box is a Nokia. I truly despise it when I realise
I
>> need to power cycle it to reboot it when it crashes/locksup and
won't
>> respond to the remote.

>X10 timed power cycle at dark o'clock? X10 remote reboot from IR, or
>from a web page?
>
>Come on Stuart! :)
>
>Write out 100 times "I must automate everything"

<grin>

Yup, that's the eventual plan after I read that idea here sometime
ago. But I have no X10 gear in the house with which to implement this.
I'm guessing that it's a case of CM12A (or something like that)
interface from the PC, some s/w on the PC to send the timed command
(e.g. HomeSeer or homebrew), and an X10 module that the ONdodgy box
plugs into.

Or is there a simpler way?

X10's a bit lower down my priorities at the moment though, despite my
swearing when I realise I have to hunt around the back of the rack for
the power cord! A front button was mentioned recently but I've not
gone looking for that yet. Maybe next time it needs a reboot.

>When I got my Tivo, my Sky Dodgybox kept locking up regularly (Sky
boxes 
>have a bug where if you send numeric channel changes a certain number
of 
>times, they die.... and of course Tivo works by sending numeric channel
>changes... a lot!) so I ended up putting an X10 auto reboot on it at
>5:55AM since that was the safest time for not watching or recording the
>Sky box.

Does it turn on again automatically, or turn on when the first button
press arrives at it from TiVo?

My Sony SkyDodgyBox (<LOL>! SkyDodgyBox I like that) went into
standby
at one point and I had a load of nothing on the TiVo. I mean to fiddle
and explore the details but time is my enemy it seems at the moment.

Stuart
-- 
Stuart Booth
Somewhere in Buckinghamshire, England, UK

stuart@xxxxxxx



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