Skyq

[chasingracecars]

shep1001 said:

Quick question. Can you use the Sky Q touch remote to operate the Sky Q mini boxes? I want to hide the box away but I guess the std remove needs line of sight to work whereas the touch remote uses bluetooth?

TIA Shep.

Yes you can. Under settings and pairing

[shep1001]

chasingracecars said:

Yes you can. Under settings and pairing

Thanks

[MissChief]

shep1001 said:

Quick question. Can you use the Sky Q touch remote to operate the Sky Q mini boxes? I want to hide the box away but I guess the std remove needs line of sight to work whereas the touch remote uses bluetooth?

TIA Shep.

Yes but you'll need to pair it. A touch remote can only be paired to one box at a time. They're discounted on sky.com at the moment.

[davidpstock]

I've just changed to Q and like the hard drive capacity but finding the interface a bit of a pain- eg why do you have to pause a programme just to see how long is left to watch? Suppose we will get used to it.
Also, anybody done anything useful with their old Sky HD box?

[bristolracer]

davidpstock said:

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Also, anybody done anything useful with their old Sky HD box?

Gumtree £30 to£40. If you cannot be bothered then they have a hard drive in them that you could use elsewhere.

[Smollet]

bristolracer said:

davidpstock said:

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Also, anybody done anything useful with their old Sky HD box?

Gumtree £30 to£40. If you cannot be bothered then they have a hard drive in them that you could use elsewhere.

That's good to know. I had a feeling they'd be worth next to nothing.

[_dobbo_]

Smollet said:

bristolracer said:

davidpstock said:

I
Also, anybody done anything useful with their old Sky HD box?

Gumtree £30 to£40. If you cannot be bothered then they have a hard drive in them that you could use elsewhere.

That's good to know. I had a feeling they'd be worth next to nothing.

I looked at selling my 2TB box and they were going for £50 on ebay.

I pulled out the 2TB drive and looked at the value of that on ebay - £65

So there's a business idea.

1.) Buy Sky boxes
2.) Take out hard drives
3.) sell hard drives
4.) Profit!

[reggie82]

bristolracer said:

PapaJohns said:

I'm on a communal system, and I haven't got one of those jobbies fitted

Your communal system may have been upgraded to accept Q boxes. Some will be, others wont it depends lots of factors between sky and landlords.

Oddly I have a communal system that has been upgraded for sky q and also has two feeds, but when the engineer came to upgrade my hd box for a q box fitted one of those!

I hate sky q, was ok at first, but have to reset it almost every morning due to sat signal issues.

[craig1912]

Mine has been great after initial issues but, this week the recordings have stopped stacking and thumbnails have disappeared

[skahigh]

craig1912 said:

Mine has been great after initial issues but, this week the recordings have stopped stacking and thumbnails have disappeared

Reboot your box, any new recordings should then be fixed, existing ones won't be.

That's what happened to mine a while ago.

[craig1912]

skahigh said:

Reboot your box, any new recordings should then be fixed, existing ones won't be.

That's what happened to mine a while ago.

Has happened to mine before -rebooted and still doing it!!

[PapaJohns]

Grrr, queue paused ......

WTF

Anybody help, Iv deleted the recordings forever, and it's not multi recording anything, I'm trying to download one episode of GOT at a time so I'm not asking to much .......but it just says queue paused

[_dobbo_]

OK, so the hard buttons have stopped working on my touch remote.

The touch part works but I can't press any of the buttons to actually make anything happen, just move around the menu.

Of course this means I can't re-pair it.

Tried new batteries, left batteries out. Guessing it's dead unless anyone here has any help before I go down the Sky support rabbithole.

[David-mbtml]

reggie82 said:

Oddly I have a communal system that has been upgraded for sky q and also has two feeds, but when the engineer came to upgrade my hd box for a q box fitted one of those!

I hate sky q, was ok at first, but have to reset it almost every morning due to sat signal issues.

In a communal dish scenario the sky Q box operates in DSCR mode (digital single cable router) this allows the Q box to retain its full functionality with only one feed. Some guys installing them for third party independents don't actually understand how DSCR works so when they upgrade the customer from sky+HD they just move the two SAT feeds over after installing the new multi switch and it works fine as one feed is DSCR. Doesn't actually need the other one though and that muddies the waters

[reggie82]

David-mbtml said:

reggie82 said:

Oddly I have a communal system that has been upgraded for sky q and also has two feeds, but when the engineer came to upgrade my hd box for a q box fitted one of those!

I hate sky q, was ok at first, but have to reset it almost every morning due to sat signal issues.

In a communal dish scenario the sky Q box operates in DSCR mode (digital single cable router) this allows the Q box to retain its full functionality with only one feed. Some guys installing them for third party independents don't actually understand how DSCR works so when they upgrade the customer from sky+HD they just move the two SAT feeds over after installing the new multi switch and it works fine as one feed is DSCR. Doesn't actually need the other one though and that muddies the waters

Ah ok, so although he didn't need to do that, it doesn't matter that he did? I have two feeds in my wall socket, but he's only using one of them now (and I'm not sure what he did, but he was meddling with something outside the flat as i had to watch the signal monitor to let him know when he unplugged the right one).

If anyone else is having the same loss of signal issues each morning that I was, I managed to fix it by turning off eco mode in the settings!

[xjay1337]

Anyone elses Sky stopped working with this storm?

[Welshbeef]

xjay1337 said:

Anyone elses Sky stopped working with this storm?

All good here.

Anyone think sky will increase the £12/pcm additional to have Q over basic sky?

[MissChief]

Welshbeef said:

All good here.

Anyone think sky will increase the £12/pcm additional to have Q over basic sky?

That's the price of Sky Q Multiscreen for the mini(s). Thing is it covers all Mini boxes so even if you have 4 it's still only £12. The subscription pricing is the same.

[Welshbeef]

MissChief said:

That's the price of Sky Q Multiscreen for the mini(s). Thing is it covers all Mini boxes so even if you have 4 it's still only £12. The subscription pricing is the same.

It's the price of sky q in total over normal sky.

What do people think about the fact sky might increase this price on the annual price rise this Sept?

[rscott]

Welshbeef said:

MissChief said:

That's the price of Sky Q Multiscreen for the mini(s). Thing is it covers all Mini boxes so even if you have 4 it's still only £12. The subscription pricing is the same.

It's the price of sky q in total over normal sky.

What do people think about the fact sky might increase this price on the annual price rise this Sept?

I don't think they will. The last Sky Tv price rise was July 2016 and I'd be surprised if we see any increase this year.
More likely to see changes to the structure of the Sports pack and possibly the introduction of the loyalty scheme mentioned in their last financial statement .

September would be a poor choice of time to increase the price too - that's when the early adopters of Q will be up for contract renewal...