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Sky+ Box - Preventing recording
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My OH’s son is monopolising the Sky+ box. He records hours and hours of TV shows preventing us from doing so as the records either clash with our or the memory is full. Is there any way that I can prevent him from recording - perhaps by requiring a pin or similar?
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Just cancel his recording schedules if they clash with yours, and delete the others.4.8kWp 12x400W Longhi 9.6 kWh battery Giv-hy 5.0 Inverter, WSW facing Essex . Aint no sunshine ☀️ Octopus gas fixed dec 24 @ 5.74 tracker again+ Octopus Intelligent Flux leccy
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My OH’s son is monopolising the Sky+ box. He records hours and hours of TV shows preventing us from doing so as the records either clash with our or the memory is full. Is there any way that I can prevent him from recording - perhaps by requiring a pin or similar?
No.
You could put a bigger hard drive in it so it can hold more recordings but beyond that...
Remember to make use of the On Demand/Catch-Up for the shows you want to record but couldn't. This isn't the 1980s where if you miss something it's gone forever...0 -
Does he watch the recordings or is he just being awkward.Thrifty Till 50 Then Spend Till the End
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My OH’s son is monopolising the Sky+ box. He records hours and hours of TV shows preventing us from doing so as the records either clash with our or the memory is full. Is there any way that I can prevent him from recording - perhaps by requiring a pin or similar?
How old is he?
If he is over 18 does he contribute to the household expenses including Sky?
Have either you or his mother/father spoken to him about this and told him to stop recording so many programmes?
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Ms_Chocaholic wrote: »Does he watch the recordings or is he just being awkward.Have either you or his mother/father spoken to him about this and told him to stop recording so many programmes?
Is there something making the usual 'we are the adults and you do as we request please' relationship not viable?Ms_Chocaholic wrote: »Does he watch the recordings or is he just being awkward.Have either you or his mother/father spoken to him about this and told him to stop recording so many programmes?
Is there something making the usual 'we are the adults and you do as we request please' relationship not viable?
To answer all of these, he is 16 and autistic. He does not follow rules unless he sees the point and cannot understand the inconvenience this causes others so it cannot be dealt with using conventional 'rules' or having reasonable conversations. (Hence my search for a technical solution) He watches much of what he records.0 -
To answer all of these, he is autistic. He does not follow rules unless he sees the point and cannot understand the inconvenience this causes others so it cannot be dealt with using conventional 'rules'.
just in go into the schedule and delete some of them..........he probably doesn't watch all he has recorded either.. also maybe get the Sky Q box? its a lot better with very little clashing0 -
hide the remote?0
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ballyblack wrote: »just in go into the schedule and delete some of them..........he probably doesn't watch all he has recorded either.. also maybe get the Sky Q box? its a lot better with very little clashing
I have gone down that route. All the recordings will be back next time next time I watch TV.hide the remote?
I want to be able to record my own stuff - not prevent him from having access to the TV altogether.0 -
Does he have a TV in his room, is an additional box for him a possibility?0
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