This update came through the other night. The funny thing is I was watching when the 1AM 'time to annoyingly check for updates' came up. I let it do it's thing, and it did the usual reboot as it always does. Still had S309 after the reboot. I used the system for another 2 hours then shut it off. Next day I see the notice that an update had been installed. Sure enough S311 is there. Checked the date/time in System Info, it shows it installed at 4:46AM. The Joey shows it picked up S294 at 5:13AM, same morning, long after it did it's 1AM reboot.
So the 'check for updates' thing is completely bogus, the system appears to check for updates ANY time it is in stand-by mode. Also I have seen the theory that the 1AM might have to do with PTAT and Auto-Hop. Not so, I see the 'roos' appear on PT recordings somewhere between 11:30 - 11:45 PM (Alaska time) 2 hours before the reboot occurs.
That leaves the question; WHY does this update HAVE to occur at 1:20 - 1:40 AM with no option to change it (other than kludgery like starting recordings)? 1) as I have seen, updates don't necessarily occur during this reboot. 2) it has nothing to do with PTAT/Autohop. 3) it occurs at 1AM *local* time, which means all the hoppers around the country are rebooting at different times depending on what time zone they are in. If it were something to do with aligning with some event on the satellites it would need to be set to reboot at a specific GMT time.
Any other reason? I call BS on all the excuses I have thus far seen for why we can't change this reboot time.
To conclude on something positive, the reboot does occur very quickly, only 2 min of downtime (no EHD...) much better then the 6-8 min that the 922 consistently required (though you could change the time on the 922, it required the big red button quite frequently).