The box does come on in the cable activity macro. It
has a power sensing macro that makes sure the signal gets
sent if the box is off. The problem occurs when they
switch to the cable if the cable box has turned itself
on to record. The macro senses the power, and does not
send an additional power command. However, if the box
has turned itself on, it will turn itself off when it
has finished recording.

His area gets enough power outages that I would prefer
to have the cable box not stay on. I would still have
the same problem to address if the power went out during
the day and a program was set to record before someone
happened to start watching tv. It's a small thing, but
I know our customers get annoyed over little stuff like
this.