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ACE - Professor

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Tuesday, November 18th, 2025

Cutting gateway power doesn't reset receiver

So this is interesting:

A few weeks ago, I accidentally turned off the power to my gateway. I noticed that the DVR had the clock ("session" in the menu->options screen) reset to zero.

I just noticed that my receiver was over 1200 hours since last reset.

This is odd, isn't it?

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ACE - Expert

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16 days ago

I don't think it's that strange.  What am I missing?

ACE - Professor

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16 days ago

I'm probably overthinking something, but if the DVR resets to 0:00:00 upon the gateway power being lost, shouldn't the receiver also do the same?

ACE - Expert

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16 days ago

The DVR may have noticed the network absence and decided to restart, and the regular receiver didn't.

ACE - Professor

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16 days ago

Hmmm...odd.


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