topic Re: Sky Stream Puck in Sky Stream

Sky Stream Puck

swanowskisc — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:20:03 GMT

Hey folks,

So after using Amazon Firestick for 6 years I made a switch to Sky Stream. Why, you may ask? I had a subsription of NOW TV with the Movies packagae and wanted to get those movies in UHD.

It arrived yesterday and it has been one disaster after another. To start off with, the remote will control the volume on my TV but will not control power, I have a soundbar connected via e-ARC and just randomly the sounds stop and I have to power the puck off and back on, related to sound the sync issue was off the hook but that got resolved by using "passthrough", Netflix just randomly closes while watching content, the power button on the remote will not turn off or on the puck unless it is in direct line of sight and only after does the bluetooth connection function kick in, it very laggy when scrolling through other conent......I have a few other niggles that I was able to resolve by googling but all in all it seem that this was not tested fully before going out to market.

Re: Sky Stream Puck

Carnoch04 — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:38:58 GMT

Sorry to hear you are having these problems but I have had Stream for 18 months and I have not had any of these issues. Have you done a reset on the box? That can be a cure-all.

Re: Sky Stream Puck

TimmyBGood — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 19:22:20 GMT

@swanowskisc wrote:

all in all it seem that this was not tested fully before going out to market.

Sky Stream pucks were released in October 2021 alongside the Sky Glass television set.

Re: Sky Stream Puck

Padam_Padam — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 21:50:21 GMT

@swanowskisc

I had Stream for about a year and sadly had similar experiences to you. Gave up on it completely a couple of months ago as it just wasn't improving fast enough. Don't miss it at all.

Re: Sky Stream Puck

Carnoch04 — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 20:01:14 GMT

@TimmyBGood wrote:
@swanowskisc wrote:
all in all it seem that this was not tested fully before going out to market.
Sky Stream pucks were released in October 2021 alongside the Sky Glass television set.

Just for accuracy, stand-alone Sky Stream pucks were not available until October 2022.

Re: Sky Stream Puck

Chrisee — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 07:09:07 GMT

@Carnoch04 you are correct but the hardware and firmware were exactly the same as the pucks supplied with Glass the previous year which was the point being made. In 2021 the point about testing was valid but now it isnt most of the bugs have been squashed but TV makers dont always supply the correct IR codes to set top makers which is the issue here.

@swanowskisc go back into the remote set up but this time select the TV make but allow the system to find a code for you then let it cycle tgrough the options until you get one that controls volume and then test the power if it doesnt work go onto the next til you find one thst does both commands. I had the same problem initially when programming for my LDC9 IIRC it was the code thst followed the one thst only operated volume that worked.

Re: Sky Stream Puck

Swanowski — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 09:28:08 GMT

So It has been 10 days in and here are a few updates to my issues:

You have to long press the power button to either turn off or on the TV. Quick press powers the puck.
The random sound loss still happens. Randomly when I switch to any other stream app, the sound just drops off. I have to turn off the TV and Puck to get it back
Using passthrough on the puck works on some apps but was still slightly out of sync. On Disnely+ & Netflix it was way off. I eventually found the fix though as setting the TV to passthrough as well completely resolved this.
The biggest issue I have is the contant freezing and crashing. If I am wathching live TV and switch to Netflix the screen freezes and then goes black screen. I can then only resolve if I unplug and plug the puck back in, as the power button the remote or the device will not respond. This happens randomly on average about 3 times a day. This happens when switching between other app but is most common with Netflix

All in all it is not a very good user experience when setting up as it is advertised as "plug & play"......far from it.

Re: Sky Stream Puck

MarkGoldsmith — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:40:43 GMT

@Swanowski wrote:

The biggest issue I have is the contant freezing and crashing. If I am wathching live TV and switch to Netflix the screen freezes and then goes black screen. I can then only resolve if I unplug and plug the puck back in, as the power button the remote or the device will not respond. This happens randomly on average about 3 times a day. This happens when switching between other app but is most common with Netflix
Typically this is caused by the network connection not being strong and stable enough. Drops in the connection leading to the puck getting less than the recommended download speed can lead to the puck crashing due to it requiring a constant connection to Sky's servers. If you are connected via Wifi, it worth making sure both the puck and the router are out in the open. You may also find a better more stable connection by connecting via ethernet rather rather Wifi. If you do switch from Wifi to ethernet, you also need to disable the Wifi in the puck's network settings. Once the Wifi is disabled rebooting the pcuk by unplugging it for a minute is the best thing to do to ensure the wifi does get disabled, sometimes the disabling doesn't take affect until you reboot.

Re: Sky Stream Puck

swanowskisc — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:31:40 GMT

Thank you for your note on this but I can 100% verify that this wont be the the problem. I have 1 gig fibre speed and the puck is directly connected to my router. The issue is becomgin unbearable and today alone already by 4:30pm I have had to unplug the puck 6 times as it has frozen out. As a last recourse I am going to go through whole puck reset and start from scratch and if it continues I will need to request a replacement and give that a try.

Re: Sky Stream Puck

Jporch316 — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 18:15:47 GMT

@swanowskisc wrote:
Thank you for your note on this but I can 100% verify that this wont be the the problem. I have 1 gig fibre speed and the puck is directly connected to my router. The issue is becomgin unbearable and today alone already by 4:30pm I have had to unplug the puck 6 times as it has frozen out. As a last recourse I am going to go through whole puck reset and start from scratch and if it continues I will need to request a replacement and give that a try.

Try connecting via WiFi. You might have 1 gig but the ethernet adapter in the puck is 100mbs.

Re: Sky Stream Puck

Kelsingra — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 13:37:32 GMT

Hey @swanowskisc

Thanks for using the Sky Community.

I've escalated your post to our Community Messaging team and they will be in touch over the next 48 hours. Check back here every now and again. You're looking for the chat bubble in the bottom corner of the thread.

You can get more information about the Community Messaging team here:
https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Did-you-know/Escalating-a-post-to-a-Sky-expert/ba-p/3711147

Re: Sky Stream Puck

Lisa-P1987 — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 13:54:48 GMT

Thanks for escalating this. We’ve sent @swanowskisc an invite to chat.

Re: Sky Stream Puck

swanowskisc — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:42:53 GMT

Thanks for the recomendation on the switch fron network cable to WIFI although on another thread the recomendation was to attachthrough the network cable. I made the switch to WIFI conection instead this morning but as of now the puck has crashed 3 times. I will now go through a full reset and start from scratch.

Re: Sky Stream Puck

Stuart+Swanson — Thu, 02 May 2024 17:35:46 GMT

Thank you but I dont see the invitation to chat?

Re: Sky Stream Puck

SKY1992bf — Thu, 02 May 2024 17:38:39 GMT

@Stuart+Swanson When signed into the forum there should be a red/blue chat bubble somewhere across the bottom of your screen click on that to start the chat

Re: Sky Stream Puck

Stuart+Swanson — Thu, 02 May 2024 19:12:06 GMT

Thanks but I dont see a chat bubble and I did not see one yesterday either.

Re: Sky Stream Puck

Fothergill1 — Thu, 02 May 2024 19:18:54 GMT

@Stuart+Swanson The escalated post was post 9 above which was posted by @swanowskisc who would have received the chat invitation.

Re: Sky Stream Puck

swanowskisc — Fri, 03 May 2024 09:47:48 GMT

Good morning,

I have logged in as I normally do so I dont understand how my name now appear as Stuart+Swanson? Still dont see the bubble.

Re: Sky Stream Puck

MarkGoldsmith — Fri, 03 May 2024 09:52:42 GMT

@swanowskisc the chat only remains active for 48 hours, this countdown resets every time you send a message back to Sky via the chat, so its possible the chat session has become inactive and closed now.

I'll re-escalate for you so the Messaging Team can send you a new chat invite.

Re: Sky Stream Puck

Lisa-P1987 — Fri, 03 May 2024 10:36:58 GMT

Thanks for escalating this. We’ve sent @swanowskisc an invite to chat.