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Re: Hisense TV problem - won't turn on until power cycled

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On 25/03/2026 12:55, Chris Green wrote:
> My MIL has a Hisense 55 Inch 55U7KQTUK smart TV. Recently it sometimes
> won't respond to the remote to turn it on. The LED changes from white
> to red (or is it the other way round?) but nothing happens, the screen
> remains blank.
> 
> If the TV is powered down and then up by pulling and replacing the
> power plug it recovers normal operation and the remote works as
> expected. However the problem repeats, it has done it three or four
> times in the past couple of days.
> 
> I have checked the batteries in the remote, they're OK.
> 
> Has anyone any idea what might be going on?
> 
> Note:  my MIL does tend to press every button in sight on the remote
> so she **may** be getting things into a strange situation. However one
> would hope there's a way of recovering apart from power cycling the TV.
> 

For me, other annoyances also needing power cycling.

I'm very close to mounting a standard wall light switch close to the TV 
so that the following PVR boxes can be power cycled when they play up.

  - Humax Aura EZ 2TB
  - Manhattan T4R

The Humax was bought after the Manahattan started suffering lockups 2 
years after purchase. I've factory reset the thing, but it still does it 
- even when run of an UPS. I blame faulty software, and apps. It's 
"going on a journey" when I get the teething bugs of the newly purchased 
Humax trashed out. The Humax is a botched Freely/Humax DVR Android 
thing, that is not well integrated between recording and on-demand use.

Actually, I'm not that impressed with the software of either of these.

I wonder if it's possible to emulate the original TiVo on a raspberry pi 
and make it work with their DVB-T Hat? Or write my own PVR software from 
scratch using cron scripts and terminal commands...

-- 
Adrian C

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Hisense TV problem - won't turn on until power cycled Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2026-03-25 12:55 +0000
  Re: Hisense TV problem - won't turn on until power cycled Mark Undrill <spam@invalid.invalid> - 2026-03-25 15:59 +0000
    Re: Hisense TV problem - won't turn on until power cycled JMB99 <mb@nospam.net> - 2026-04-11 00:21 +0100
      Re: Hisense TV problem - won't turn on until power cycled Mark Undrill <spam@invalid.invalid> - 2026-04-12 10:21 +0100
  Re: Hisense TV problem - won't turn on until power cycled Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2026-03-25 18:19 +0000
  Re: Hisense TV problem - won't turn on until power cycled John Hall <john@jhall.co.uk> - 2026-03-26 11:12 +0000
    Re: Hisense TV problem - won't turn on until power cycled JNugent <JNugent73@mail.com> - 2026-03-29 17:20 +0100
  Re: Hisense TV problem - won't turn on until power cycled Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2026-03-30 12:50 +0100
    Re: Hisense TV problem - won't turn on until power cycled JMB99 <mb@nospam.net> - 2026-04-09 18:49 +0100

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