Sky Stream and Firecube 3rd Gen

[hammerman1980]

I'm waiting for my new sky stream pucks to be delivered.I currently have my set top box running through my amazon firecube 3rd gen hdmi .Will I be able to run sky steam puck through the amazon firecube.The options only give cable and satalite sky q nothing for sky stream.? 

[TimmyBGood]

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@hammerman1980 wrote:

Will I be able to run sky steam puck through the amazon firecube.

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Each of those is a source device: they are intended to input into the television set independently.

Are you perhaps thinking of using the Sky Go app on the Amazon device until the puck is delivered?

[TimmyBGood]

@hammerman1980 

Ah, presumably you mean the HDMI input on the third generation Cube: I'm not sure if that brings any great advantage.  As far as I know you can't access the Stream UI that way, apart from HDMI-CEC functions.

[hammerman1980]

Thankyou for your replies.Im not to worried if it doesn't work but I'm still interested to find out if it will.I will try it out when my pucks arrive and let you all know .

[Jporch316]

Theoretically it should works as it's a pass through hdmi - be interesting to know if it does !

[TimmyBGood]

@hammerman1980 

As @Jporch316 says, simple HDMI passthrough should work: what you won't get, I think, is any of the potential system integration possible with some other devices daisychained in that way.

[hammerman1980]

It's only because I'm using all my  hdmi on my tv.So atm I have my virgin 360 box running through my firecube hdmi in.Im excited to change over to sky stream but if it doesn't work on my firecube I can always get myself a firestick.Want to keep my firecube or get a firestick for apps that are not on sky stream.

[Jporch316]

@hammerman1980 

Firestick would still take up one of your hdmi slots just like the fire cube ...... but without the pass through 

[hammerman1980]

Oh yes of course it would.How silly am I.Oh well looks like I might be putting my firecube on ebay .Tbh there proberly is enough to watch on sky stream.

[SlenderRobert]

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@hammerman1980 wrote:

Oh yes of course it would.How silly am I.Oh well looks like I might be putting my firecube on ebay .Tbh there proberly is enough to watch on sky stream.

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But a FireTV Cube runs the same FireTV OS as a Firestick and runs the same apps. Why would you want to swap a FireTV Cube for a Firestick? 

[Jporch316 · Accepted solution]

I would hold off on selling it until you try the pass through - if virgins box works through it I can't see why the stream box can't 

you can't install any apps on the stream box - you just get some of the major apps pre installed- it's worth keeping the fire cube just in case there's an app you use that's not on stream 

[hammerman1980]

Yes your right.I was trying to think of another way to get around it but changing to a firestick was not one of my smartest ideas.Still has to use a hdml so I've decided that if the sky stream does not work through the hdmi in on my firecube I will prioritise the sky stream and sell my firecube or get myself a hdmi splitter.

[hammerman1980]

I will try it out and let you all know.Im surprised I cannot find any info out on this at all.Thankyou to everyone for your replies on this matter.

[PSC133]

@hammerman1980 

Just tried this for you using a Firecube 3rd gen.  It works (almost) perfectly.  I think I'm detecting the audio out of sync very slightly but I'm sure I could have solved this with a bit of tinkering somewhere along the chain of items which, in my case is puck to fire tv to LG oled to ARC to Denon amp.

[hammerman1980]

Thankyou so much for trying this out for me.Thats great news.I have a similar set up to you or will have when I recieve my sky stream pucks.Sky stream,firecube 3rd gen and LG TV just minus the denon.Once again thankyou for your help in this matter.Could not find any info on this at all.So you have helped me and many others I'm sure.