What is smart standby?
Smart Standby is our recommended standby option. It starts up your box quicker in the day and puts it into deep sleep at night (when you switch it off).
It helps improve overall responsiveness and lowers power consumption (compared to the other standby modes).
What is deep sleep?
When your box goes into standby, it stays ready in the background for a short time before going into what we call ‘deep sleep’. This turns off a few things in the box and saves you energy.
When you turn your box on from deep sleep, it needs a little extra time to get everything ready for you.
In deep sleep, your box will use less power and will still wake up to record scheduled programmes and perform automatic software updates.
Changing to smart standby
You can change the standby mode to Smart Standby.
- Open the Menu
- Select Settings*
- From Box Management select Power & standby
- Select Standby mode
- Select SMART
- Select Done
*Settings can be found via the cog in the top right corner of the Menu. You can get to the cog by pressing Up and right after opening the Menu.
Changing the deep sleep window
You can change the standby mode to Smart Standby.
- Open the Menu
- Select Settings*
- From Box Management select Power & standby
- Select Standby mode
- Select SMART
- Select Done
*Settings can be found via the cog in the top right corner of the Menu. You can get to the cog by pressing Up and right after opening the Menu.