SkyQ >>> Freesat
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My biggest bugbear is why every time I take it out of standby it needs to show my a picture of a satellite dish and a house saying “We are setting up your satellite dish”.

Mine does this, and you can make it go away by going into the settings and changing the standby mode from Passive to Active. It’s on page 24 of the manual, here: www.richersounds.com 

Here’s the thing though, in doing that the box, goes from using about 1w to 10w, so I’ve left it in passive. It also sent me down a rabbit hole in that it turns out that SkyQ uses about the same amount of power in standby than it does when it’s on, around 30w which at current prices will really add up over a year. So with the freesat box should save a few quid a year on the leccy - well over £100 based on my calculation if you leave it in passive mode (and maybe even more as the box itself when its on uses less than SkyQ)

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SkyQ >>> Freesat - by Parsons - 04-03-2023, 02:35 PM
RE: SkyQ >>> Freesat - by CCFG - 04-03-2023, 02:53 PM
RE: SkyQ >>> Freesat - by EJnutz - 04-03-2023, 03:24 PM
RE: SkyQ >>> Freesat - by Rdd - 04-03-2023, 08:14 PM
RE: SkyQ >>> Freesat - by i.h - 04-03-2023, 08:37 PM
RE: SkyQ >>> Freesat - by bbctvtechop - 06-03-2023, 09:01 AM
RE: SkyQ >>> Freesat - by Parsons - 06-03-2023, 09:23 AM
RE: SkyQ >>> Freesat - by Rdd - 06-03-2023, 10:18 AM
RE: SkyQ >>> Freesat - by Mort - 06-03-2023, 06:20 PM
RE: SkyQ >>> Freesat - by i.h - 06-03-2023, 09:20 PM
RE: SkyQ >>> Freesat - by Parsons - 06-03-2023, 09:48 PM
RE: SkyQ >>> Freesat - by cable - 06-03-2023, 10:14 PM
RE: SkyQ >>> Freesat - by Brekkie - 06-03-2023, 10:14 PM
RE: SkyQ >>> Freesat - by Rdd - 06-03-2023, 11:39 PM
RE: SkyQ >>> Freesat - by Parsons - 14-04-2023, 08:55 PM
RE: SkyQ >>> Freesat - by Blubatt - 15-04-2023, 03:42 PM
RE: SkyQ >>> Freesat - by Rdd - 15-04-2023, 07:18 AM
RE: SkyQ >>> Freesat - by Parsons - 15-04-2023, 08:03 AM
RE: SkyQ >>> Freesat - by Neil Jones - 15-04-2023, 08:01 AM
Rdd - by Rdd - 15-04-2023, 10:21 AM
RE: SkyQ >>> Freesat - by all new phil - 15-04-2023, 05:19 PM
RE: SkyQ >>> Freesat - by Neil Jones - 15-04-2023, 07:13 PM
RE: SkyQ >>> Freesat - by Brekkie - 18-04-2023, 09:09 PM

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