Beolab 50 mind of their own?

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My beolab 50's are switching themselves on everyday, sometime twice a day, for just a few minutes and then shutting down. What is going on here?
Do you have them to a B&O TV that automatically checks for software updates periodically?  This used to happen to my Beolab Penta which were connected to my Beovision 11 TV, and after a while I realised it was happening at the same time each day.  I deactivated the automatic update checks on the TV, and it stopped happening. It's an outside possibility that it's the same thing, but you never know.  My suspicion either way would be that they are not switching themselves on - whatever is connected to them is probably doing that.

Location: Liverpool

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Old enough to have gazed at classic B&O HiFi in Plumbs shop windows in the 80s...
They are wirelessly powerlink connected to a BV11 but that remains off. The BV11 does not check for updates at all. The BL50's do. Besides, this has been the situation for 6 years now but this BL50 issue just started a couple of weeks ago. They are connected to a beoconnect core also. I am sure it is an update situation but why is this happening everyday?
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