Does anyone know how to make a Scientific Atlanta Explorer 2000 come back on after the cable company resets it and leaves it off?

Time Warner has started doing this "every night" defeating use of the cable box as the video source for a Tivo if you are not there to manually cut it back on in the morning.

If not, does anyone have a discreet on command for this cable box? I may be able to use one of the X10 gadgets designed to cut a tape recorder on to blast the IR On command every day to overcome this idiotic practice if there is a discreet On command.

Someone suggested in settings you can tell it to use any numeric key as power on but I wasn't sure if it was just "ON" and not toggle.

Thanks,

Nick

Yes it is just ON not toggle.

If the box is already on the digit acts as a digit. If the box was off the digit acts as power on.

I'm pretty sure that if the power was off the digit does not also act as a digit. It would be much easier if it did. Then you could just send the command to tune to a channel regardless of whether you started on or off.

Long ago I had a timed system externally setting the channel on an (older model) cable box. It sent the full channel number. Then paused long enough to time out the partial channel entry in case the box had been off, then sent the full channel number again.

For what its worth...
In our area, Time Warner SA boxes will wake up on a digit press and the digit is a digit press, not just an ON. We use 0, Exit, Exit in a macro because 0 is not a valid channel and the box will turn on and show a flashing 0 and not change channels if the box was already on. The Exit, Exit will first stop the flashing 0, then get rid of the banner at the bottom of the screen.

Remember, to use this feature you must go into the menu and turn it on. The menu item doesn't appear in all SA boxes, but I would guess that all Time Warner boxes probably would have it as ours do.