I had been experiencing a lot of crashes by the Mythbox in my family room. I was doing a lot of 'work' on it and attributed it to that. I changed it out for a Mythbox that had sat under my desk and run like the sunrise ..... until it resided in the family room,where it crashed three times in a week !
Both boxes have Streamzap remotes, and receivers... which blinked inexplicably.... but I didn't figure it out at the time. I couldn't find any stuck remotes.
Some glimmers came when a new Dish settop box was installed & I had trouble with the remote responding on it. A google search turned up that IR tossed off by your flatscreen (particularly during warmup) causes remote problems for a lot of people, using boxes operating on IR frequencies different from the ones the TV remote uses....
A reason for crashing Mythboxes began to formulate... I banished the crashing problem by banishing the IR remotes and using the Mythweb remotes.
Fortunately, the Google searches provide a solution that works: Masking the IR receivers windows with an appropriate number of layers of printer paper (one worked for me...)[The Dish box started responding too...] The background IR is blocked but the beam from the remote gets through.
So if you are having mysterious problems with your Mythboxes or remotes .....
