topic Re: TV input App has appeared in Sky Stream

TV input App has appeared

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:00:46 GMT

A new TV input app has appeared on my sky stream box. Has it appeared on anyone else's. When pressed it provides an opportunity to search for terrestrial tv channels via the stream box

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GD1 — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:03:37 GMT

@Anonymous Yup 🙂

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Anonymous — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:04:28 GMT

I can now watch all freeview channels via the stream box 🙂

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GD1 — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:05:39 GMT

@Anonymous Just tuning mine in, wonder how long it will last 🙂

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Anonymous — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:10:27 GMT

@GD1 @Not sure ! All the terrestrial tuner software is in English ? You think it's an error ?

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Anonymous — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:12:27 GMT

It only picks up the digital channels, doesn't seem to work on any of the data/streaming channels within freeview

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GD1 — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:14:28 GMT

@Anonymous Hard to say as the facility is availble in Italy for certain, hopefully it's a permanent feature, time will tell.

Although it does seem strange.

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Anonymous — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:16:48 GMT

I suspect it is meant to be, based on the tuner is in English. I guess it provides a good back up for customers suffering from any WiFi issues. Secondly adds channels unavailable on stream such as TPTV, that's tv, rewind tv etc ???

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GD1 — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:23:04 GMT

@Anonymous Annoyingly though it puts the main SD channels 1st and HD from 101 onwards

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Anonymous — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:24:03 GMT

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Ellie_TV — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 23:20:00 GMT

Mine did this last week. I had to factory reset the puck on Sky's advice. When it restarted it was on QS034 & allowed me to tune in the free to air channels under the same aerial input icon. It lasted a few days then disappeared again.
Weird. These pucks are too darned glitchy. I'm growing less & less fond of mine.

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Jporch316 — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 23:23:49 GMT

It's also appeared on my glass tv !

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Fothergill1 — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 23:33:17 GMT

I have seen the app but don't really see why I would want to use it on a Stream Puck. If I cancel Sky I have to return the puck so it won't be of any use (unlike Glass) and if my broadband goes down (which it did for a few hours on one occasion last year) then I would simply revert to watching from my TV. Am I missing something?

A great feature for Glass owners though.

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MarkGoldsmith — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 23:39:04 GMT

@Fothergill1 wrote:
I have seen the app but don't really see why I would want to use it on a Stream Puck. If I cancel Sky I have to return the puck so it won't be of any use (unlike Glass) and if my broadband goes down (which it did for a few hours on one occasion last year) then I would simply revert to watching from my TV. Am I missing something?

A great feature for Glass owners though.

I agree. I completely see the value of it on Sky Glass but can't really understand the usefulness of it on the puck.

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Exiled-in-HH — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 07:14:49 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
It only picks up the digital channels, doesn't seem to work on any of the data/streaming channels within freeview

A device needs to support Freeview to access those😉

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Exiled-in-HH — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 07:20:26 GMT

@GD1 wrote:
@Anonymous Annoyingly though it puts the main SD channels 1st and HD from 101 onwards

The swap is only supported on recent Freeview supported devices😉

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Anonymous — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:33:54 GMT

I wonder how you carry out a re-scan of channels once you have don't it originally. Doesn't appear to be any settings to do this.

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Jporch316 — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:46:38 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
I wonder how you carry out a re-scan of channels once you have don't it originally. Doesn't appear to be any settings to do this.

Yes I've done it - right on the remote and in settings

Re: TV input App has appeared

Jporch316 — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:47:51 GMT

Then into terrestrial

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Anonymous — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 20:00:53 GMT

@Jporch316 Thanks mate 🙂