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Hi all,
I wanted to say hello, I’m loving my new HDR 1000S after Sky made one to many price hikes, I’ve even got an RF modulator so haven’t lost the ability to watch TV in bed controlling the box from the freesat app which works very well after allowing a day or so for the box to settle in (before that I couldn’t control the on demand).
Only one thing I’m missing is the ability to power on the box from standby using the app (you can do this on the sky app) is it possible with the freesat app as at the moment ur just says it can’t find the box, but I wondered if some power management setting would fix that.
Thanks in advance. e.
No afraid not – In standby the HDR-1000S is really in standby using power of < 0.5 watts. The newer Sky units, while they do have a full standby option, this is not rarely used by customers due to the very long boot time in this mode. Sky’s normal standby mode uses nearly as much power as when it is on.
p.s. If your phone/device has an IR blaster then you should be able to find an app to use that.
Not cheap but definitely possible.
http://www.keene.co.uk/keene-ir-anywhere-ir-over-ip-module-128-code.html
Ouch thanks guys, might stick to the manual approach then.
trevrobwhite – 13 minutes ago »
Ouch thanks guys, might stick to the manual approach then.
There is a couple of ways of setting the box to wake itself up to let you in. The easiest way is set as many wake up (Reminder resevations) as you want.
Easiest way is to set a reminder reservation for each wake up as follows.
Recordings – Planned – Right twice to Set Recording.
Channel – any you want, normally best to wake up on a BBC 24/7 channel
Month – This one
Day – Tommorow
Start Time – Your access time window start
Duration – End of your access window.
Repeat – normally daily
Alternatively take your remote with you (or buy a 2nd one), or as Repassac already suggested use a mobile device with a infra red transmitter, and buy a much cheaper wireless infra red remote extender system.
eg
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Marmitek-PowerMid-XL-infrared-extender/dp/B000GIXH42
This might also do you. I have one coming in due course.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1635386542/anymote-home-your-phone-the-ultimate-universal-rem
Excellent thanks for the advice. Perhaps a future firmware will allow a remote wake up in power options.
trevrobwhite – 59 seconds ago »
Excellent thanks for the advice. Perhaps a future firmware will allow a remote wake up in power options.
Sorry the EU power saving requirements make this virtually impossible. To do this the box requires a Wake On Lan activity monitor capability. Apart from the security requirements of someone else being able to access your kit, the 0.5W power requirement is not even enough to power the lnb on the dish and also at a guess the LAN access hardware.
This may explain some of the complexity that even a PC has to do to implement this capability.
http://www.howtogeek.com/70374/how-to-geek-explains-what-is-wake-on-lan-and-how-do-i-enable-it/
Graham – from what I remember the EEC regulations do not actually prohibit it. They say the unit must be able to (current models) meet < 0.5W power requirements and that this must be the default option.
This requirement did not apply to units with decryption (Someone got the wool pulled over their eyes at the EEC?)
I can’t imagine that WOL would get any sort of development effort. To make it work remotely requires a lot more knowhow than most users have. To make it work on the LAN would be much easier but there are a few other things I would like to see before this (DLNA server anyone?).
REPASSAC – 42 minutes ago »
Graham – from what I remember the EEC regulations do not actually prohibit it. They say the unit must be able to (current models) meet < 0.5W power requirements and that this must be the default option.
This requirement did not apply to units with decryption (Someone got the wool pulled over their eyes at the EEC?)
I can’t imagine that WOL would get any sort of development effort. To make it work remotely requires a lot more knowhow than most users have. To make it work on the LAN would be much easier but there are a few other things I would like to see before this (DLNA server anyone?).
Sky boxes seem to have got over this because a basic box without subscription isn’t a pvr. No doubt the real reason a Sky box without a paid for service cannot be used to record.
I always think it’s funny all this reduce standby power requirements then virtually every appliance known to man has at least one LED to say it’s off.
Wake on LAN shouldn’t be that hard to do, it’s probably built into the network card anyway and the box already wakes on a timer for recordings, agree this should only be on the LAN.
It would make the app complete then as you can turn the box off in the app just can’t turn it back on again.
REPASSAC – 1 hour ago »
I can’t imagine that WOL would get any sort of development effort. To make it work remotely requires a lot more knowhow than most users have. To make it work on the LAN would be much easier but there are a few other things I would like to see before this (DLNA server anyone?).
I suspect you’re right. If I’m not mistaken, Freesat’s main purpose with the development of the app is to collect viewing data and encourage the regular use of Showcase. I doubt if turning the box on without getting out of bed is on their to-do list. And therefore not on Humax’s to-do list.
DLNA server would be nice.
Shame
They’re a hardhearted bunch.
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