I think that enigma is not able to determine (in the case of the MB Twin anyway) how the box was booted or the state prior to the start of a timer recording. I don't know if it's a driver issue (they seem to have changed in Feb this year) or something else. I'll raise the issue with the other testers to see if they can shed any light. I just know that my GB Quad+ behaves fine in this regard, even to the extent of trying to force a shutdown after a recording if it was started from deep standby and then the user subsequently uses the remote to start watching a channel while the timer recording is in progress.

I don't think there is a setting for when the box is to boot before a timed recording is due. The default padding on a recording is three minutes before and two minutes after, but the box seems to add another minute or two or three before that if it's booting from deep. This makes sense as the normal boot process will take at least a minute and maybe up to two minutes.