Idea: About Sky Q losing its signal on Rainy and cloudy days

[spannernick1]

Why not if Sky Q does not get a satilight signal for over a 1 minutes because of its raining or so then let it switch to get the signal from the internet(Steam) until the signal comes back, why not, it can use the Internet already and you have Sky Steam and NOW anyways...?

Oh and why does Sky Q not work without a satilight signal, it should be able to do both Sky Q and Steam too, it should have both features, and it would only need a update to it firmware to do it, plus you make the harware future prove so can still be used if Satilight signal is turned off.

Its the firmware that tells the hardware what to do, it as a OS thats why it takes a while to boot up and has different splash screens and why Sky Q crashes somes and needs rebooting, everything has a little ARM machine inside them(Sky Q might use a different CPU, most devices use ARM now), you can see when Sky Q enables it display driver when it resolution changes just before its GUI loads up, the blue screen `Press Home to get Started`, that why it changes, its on a low res 4:3 when it starts to boot, like Windows old boot screen Windows 98/XP,.

Most things have a OS in them even Routers(WIFI HUBS) have OSes that why they take time to boot up too.

Anyway, just a idea... 🙂

[TimmyBGood · Accepted solution]

@spannernick1 

As repeated many times in this forum, Q is ten year old technology developed by Sky before the Comcast takeover.  Whatever it may or may not have been able to do is irrelevant when it isn't a product that they are interested in continuing with.

[PandJ2020]

In theory but it is almost certain they won't implement such a hybrid method of sourcing the channel.  (Ensuring it's a seamless switch would prove quite difficult)

[Chodley]

So... yeah it would be kind of neat if it auto-switched but you can just do it yourself in maybe 15 seconds.

p.s. If I ever see "Satilight" spelled like that again in my life, it will be too soon.

[spannernick1]

It was just a idea anyways, no probs,..:) I only said it because the satilight signal will not be there forever.

[Invisiblename]

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@spannernick1 wrote:

It was just a idea anyways, no probs,..:) I only said it because the satilight signal will not be there forever.

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[Chodley]

It was too soon

I do think it was quite a smart idea. But no, the satellite signal won't be there beyond 2029, which makes the effort of writing, testing and maintaining new software that can autoswitch from that to streaming a really unattractive cost for something which will have no use (at least in the UK/I) in 5 years' time. Also my signal is affected by weather about once a year if that so the benefit seems limited too. Might be different further towards the edge of the beam footprint.