Magic eye not powering on sky box

[grumbas]

For some reason my magic eye will no longer send a signal through to the sky box to power it up after its been on standby for a while.

When this happens, if I power the box on manually I'll get control back through the magic eye after a few minutes. If the box has been on anyway there's never an issue.

It's starting to get really annoying and Google isn't being helpful - any ideas?

[grumbas]

Fairly direct, but around 20 meters with a few joins, it is amplified though.

Red light is on and picture is perfect so I doubt its the cable, especially as I can predict when it will/won't work.

[grumbas]

Yep, it's all worked fine for years then started this trick a couple of months ago, very intermittent at first, now its 99% of the time.

[grumbas]

Yep, when it decides to play up neither will work via the magic eye but both work fine in front of the box!

It's an odd problem to say the least!

[grumbas]

That was my thought but the powers always there.

Oh well, a perfect excuse to upgrade to HD perhaps