I have an Amstrad digibox which works fine in all respects but when I set up to record onto my recorder it automatically times out onto standby so no progemme gets recorded. An suggestions as to how I can override the standy mode coming into play?

Roberto, April 2009

Hi, try this at ...http://www.stevelarkins.freeuk.com/

Sky Auto-Standby (when enabled) will switch your box into standby at 1am with the message "Your Sky+ box is about to go into standby". It may also switch your Sky box to standby after 4 hours of inactivity at any time of the day - for example when listening to a digital radio station.

To turn Auto-Standby off please follow the procedure below:

Press the "Services" button on your Sky handset
Press button 5 for "Sky Setup"
Press the handset 'up' button twice which highlights "Auto Standby"
Use the left or right handset buttons to turn auto standby OFF
Press the handset down key to highlight "Save New Settings" and then press select
Turn your Sky box off and then on to return to normal viewing using the Sky button

rob, January 2010