*** Sky Q Thread ***

VaderDSL said:
Daft question, we have Sky Q in our house now, main box wired in 1 room, sky q mini in another. It's ok, but not as good as the previous Sky HD+ multiroom as the recording are centralised and slight loss in quality.

Is there any way to have two separate SkyQ 1tb boxes on a single account (so replace the mini with another Sky Q box)? There are 2 cables already installed from the Sky HD setup, if it is possible to have the two separate boxes is there a 4 port LNB for the dish that supports Sky Q?

If not, I might look to install an ethernet cable and run it over ethernet to see if it improves
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Sky only allow one main Q box per account/address I’m afraid so you’re stuck with the mini.
 
DiscoFizz said:
Sky only allow one main Q box per account/address I’m afraid so you’re stuck with the mini.
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Cheers for confirming! Hopefully they bring out an update eventually to separate recordings. Have two very different viewing habits on our sky. I’ll have a play on Ethernet as well, see if it makes sense to install one properly.
 
So started watching Tin Star Liverpool in HDR and for some reason it doesn't auto download the following episode. Then each episode in turn needs to have the format changing before downloading. Surely it should work the same way as other HD downloads.
 
VaderDSL said:
Its not that far away, maybe 4 metres and it’s only a slight decrease in quality, with occasional de sync of audio in rare occasions and on some channels. Could it be bit rates on some channels for Sky q are lower? The test the sky engineer did showed green for the mesh between the main box and mini, I might break out the long Ethernet cable and test first before drilling
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The picture quality shouldn't degrade as it's a digital source and as far as I'm aware doesn't use Netflix style algorithms to lower the bitrate. The sound however used to go out of sync on my Sony TV especially noticeable on sky one, but now I have an LG on the mini the sound is fine.

I'd be looking at the TV over the mini box.

Edit: yes a lot of channels use low bit rates anyway.
 
VaderDSL said:
Daft question, we have Sky Q in our house now, main box wired in 1 room, sky q mini in another. It's ok, but not as good as the previous Sky HD+ multiroom as the recording are centralised and slight loss in quality.

Is there any way to have two separate SkyQ 1tb boxes on a single account (so replace the mini with another Sky Q box)? There are 2 cables already installed from the Sky HD setup, if it is possible to have the two separate boxes is there a 4 port LNB for the dish that supports Sky Q?

If not, I might look to install an ethernet cable and run it over ethernet to see if it improves
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No, you cannot have more than 1 Q main box on your mesh. Your account will only allow one viewing card and if you have two main boxes in your WiFi mesh which box does the recording? Which box streams to the mini boxes? It just isn’t designed that way. As said though I notice no difference between my main box and mini box, so much so I watch the mini box more than the main one.

Folders of some sort is something that’s been requested multiple times and is on the roadmap. Mind you it’s been on the roadmap for years now!
 
ChrisD. said:
Has anyone managed to get their Q box upgraded to one that's capable of HDR FOC?
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I spent a while on a call with no joy, the bloke just kept on robotically repeating himself. Think it ended up £100 for a new box and an extra mini for my sons room, they wanted £150 but I installed them myself.
 
ChrisD. said:
Has anyone managed to get their Q box upgraded to one that's capable of HDR FOC?
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Not sure what boxes Sky are giving out at the moment. I got a v2 box a month or so ago because the v3 box apparently had sound issues? *Shrugs*
If you have to pay for it, i'd do some research on current state of the boxes. For reference I'm finding the v2 box fine.
 
I must admit, I don't really have any issues with my box at all apart from the occasional sound issue where it drops for a few ms before coming back. It would just be nice to be able to watch some content on Sky Q in HDR.
 
ChrisD. said:
I must admit, I don't really have any issues with my box at all apart from the occasional sound issue where it drops for a few ms before coming back. It would just be nice to be able to watch some content on Sky Q in HDR.
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Sounds like you need to get an engineer around for a replacement box ;)
 
Hi,
I’ve been a VM customer for a long time but I’m moving soon and our only option is sky can someone tell me what the setup is for a box in the living room and one in an upstairs bedroom ,I think I’ve read that the box upstairs would be WiFi and wouldn’t be connected to a dish .. if anyone can give me any info on the sky installs that would be great
 
BigDools said:
Hi,
I’ve been a VM customer for a long time but I’m moving soon and our only option is sky can someone tell me what the setup is for a box in the living room and one in an upstairs bedroom ,I think I’ve read that the box upstairs would be WiFi and wouldn’t be connected to a dish .. if anyone can give me any info on the sky installs that would be great
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The main box is connected to the dish and also your broadband, the mini is internal network via WiFi to the main box using its own private channel. If you have Sky broadband and their hub then the hub and Sky box form a mesh. It's possible to have them all wired as well but the default option is wireless.

I use PlusNet for broadband and the main box is connected via cable and the mini via the private wireless.
 
BigDools said:
Hi,
I’ve been a VM customer for a long time but I’m moving soon and our only option is sky can someone tell me what the setup is for a box in the living room and one in an upstairs bedroom ,I think I’ve read that the box upstairs would be WiFi and wouldn’t be connected to a dish .. if anyone can give me any info on the sky installs that would be great
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Yes the mini box is connected via WiFi or Ethernet.
 
ChrisD. said:
That's the way I'm currently thinking.
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I was having intermittent crashes with my old 2TB box and moaned to Sky's technical department. They couriered a new box for next day delivery and the driver took the old one away at the same time. New box does HDR, I tried it with Prime (I don't have multi-room or HDR with Sky) Prime picture quality was good except it seemed it was dropping frames, or something, as there was a bit judder
 
picnic said:
I was having intermittent crashes with my old 2TB box and moaned to Sky's technical department. They couriered a new box for next day delivery and the driver took the old one away at the same time. New box does HDR, I tried it with Prime (I don't have multi-room or HDR with Sky) Prime picture quality was good except it seemed it was dropping frames, or something, as there was a bit judder
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There’s a setting within picture settings, not in front of my Q box which might help, says something about Apps I’m sure.
 
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