This also has a Mon-Fri timer ability, unlike any ALI based receiver I've used! No more setting up multiple individual weekly timers for Mon-Fri only shows. Or using the ALI "daily" recording, which also records Saturday and Sunday when you don't need it to. That alone cuts way down on timer conflicts. Also the internet clock is absolutely dead on time, and doesn't drift as I have it set to re-sync once per hour. No more resyncing manually every two weeks or so.
So this receiver has been flawless up to now, in turning on both it and my G-box, moving to the proper sat, and tuning in and recording channels I want. If you aren't using it at the time though as I said a few posts up, it must be in "Deep Standby" mode to also power up/down the G-box and external hard drive when it comes up. Otherwise you MUST leave those devices turned ON all the time, and then the Mio can just be kept in NORMAL standby mode.
P.S. So, I'm watching a recording in "PVR" mode, but am sitting on sat 101W and I have a 'test' timer setup to go to 99W FETV at 1600 - 1700 to record Perry Mason. The G-box went to sleep while I was watching the recording, and powered down. At 15 seconds before 1600~ the Mio powered up the G-box, moved to 99w, tuned in FETV, and started recording Perry Mason. It did NOT throw me out of my recording I was watching at the time. It did it all in the background! The MicroHD always threw me out of a recording I was watching when a timer kicked off, which is quite annoying.