topic Where's the new home screen layout gone? in Sky Stream

Where's the new home screen layout gone?

Chris+Neal — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:04:16 GMT

I've had Sky Stream for several months now. A few weeks ago they changed the home screen layout: the "buttons": strip (Playlist, TV shows, Movies, Sport...) was replaced by a new set including "Your Apps, and Best of Sky". I really liked the new layout because it gave me faster access to iPlayer, Netflix etc.

However, today I noticed that the layout has reverted to the original. Anyone else seeing the same thing?

I want my new layout back!

Re: Where's the new home screen layout gone?

Fothergill1 — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 22:07:08 GMT

@Chris+Neal The layout of the home screen constantly changes and unfortunately as users we have no control over it. If I had the choice I would remove most of the rails entirely but then maybe that's the reason we are not given control 🤣

As an example this morning my Continue Watching rail and Apps rail were further down the home screen than they are this evening.

Re: Where's the new home screen layout gone?

boab400 — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:58:10 GMT

Yup, this happened to our main Sky Stream in the living room today, and it's had us scratching heads all day. Have tried a couple of reboots and power cycles. Also refresh apps but seems it's a firmware upgrade again that we are unable to pause/delay or refuse. This thing needs far more user feedback to be usable. Listen to the customers Sky, they know what they want.

Re: Where's the new home screen layout gone?

mrwwt — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 12:46:51 GMT

For those of us who've had Glass/Stream for a while, this has happened a number of times – usually, it's that they roll something out to a chunk of users, realise something isn't working and pull the update (/reverse the update for those who already had it)... to be fair, it usually does come back again fairly quickly when they've fixed what was wrong.

I remember this happened with the Personal Playlists – it updated for maybe half of us, and then got pulled and everyone went back to the normal/original Playlist for a bit until a revised update came out.

Long story short – fingers crossed this will be back soon, as I liked it better as well.