Have found a couple of oddities in the log files which may be relevant:
Var log:
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
Jan 1 01:00:14 openelec user.notice Boot: ### Wait for udevadm settle to finish ###
Jan 1 01:00:14 openelec daemon.err connmand[903]: iptables support missing error 2 (No such file or directory)
Jan 1 01:00:14 openelec daemon.warn connmand[903]: Failed to flush table 'mangle': Invalid argument
Jan 1 01:00:15 openelec daemon.err connmand[903]: iptables support missing error 2 (No such file or directory)
Jan 1 01:00:15 openelec daemon.warn connmand[903]: Failed to install iptables rules: Invalid argument
Kernel Log:
[ 14.248500] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[ 16.438831] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: hardware isn't capable of remote wakeup
I think I was wrong thinking it was collecting EPG data correctly - it appears to come from the internet.
EMJB