Contour mini box wakes up to COX advertising

I'm unsure if I clarified anything because I don't know how the Mini Box works in some setups.

I think a subscriber could have a sole (1) Mini Box in their house for cable-TV service.  I also think a Mini Box could be setup as a client to a "Maxi" Box, such as a DVR, for its programming, such as a recorded show.

If the Mini-Maxi is the setup, does the Mini use 1 of the tuners of the Maxi or does the Mini use its own tuner?  If the Mini does use 1 of the tuners, does the Maxi need to be powered or awake during your AM process?

"...old mini box for several years..."  Is there a difference between Mini Boxes, such as Contour-1 and -2?  I thought there was only 1 version because the Mini Box has tuning limitations, such as no advanced TV packages, paks, premium channels, apps, etc.

I understand you replaced your Mini Box, paired your 11-year-old TV to the new remote and this started happening a few weeks later.  You must have changed something else.  Did you also replace the Maxi Box?  Change a setting on the Maxi Box?  Is the Maxi Box the Wireless 4K Stream Player?  If so, did you change a setting on the Panoramic, such as scheduling, parental control, MoCA?

The screensaver wouldn't engage while watching a program or being tuned to a channel.  The screensaver would only engage if you've been inactive for, say 5 minutes, while navigating within Contour, such as viewing its Program Guide, info about a TV program, info about a channel, the Contour menu, etc.

I'm curious if you enabled the Power Saver mode of the Maxi Box.  If the Maxi Box is inactive for 4 hours...I don't know what it disables...but if the Mini is a client, the Mini isn't receiving programming unless you press a button on its remote to wake the Maxi.

This is weird because I reread this thread and you're seeing 3 types of screensavers.  I suspect you also changed something on the Maxi Box.

I ask more questions than answer.