Sky decoder now streams during rainfade

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#318740 16-Feb-2025 21:45

I thought this should have its own thread? The latest firmware in the white sky decoders now switches over to internet streaming of Linear Channel content if it detects "rainfade" or any issue with the satellite signal.

For anyone using a whitebox. How does it look? also on another note. How much snooping does the whitebox do? has anyone logged the traffic from it to aid in setting up a blocklist in pi-hole?

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#3343472 16-Feb-2025 23:46

Bit of a worry if a customer is not on a unlimited data plan 🤔

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#3343783 17-Feb-2025 16:58

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Bit of a worry if a customer is not on a unlimited data plan 🤔

Im sure they will let it be turned off or push them into a sky unlimited broadband package

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#3343784 17-Feb-2025 16:59

Apsattv:

I thought this should have its own thread? The latest firmware in the white sky decoders now switches over to internet streaming of Linear Channel content if it detects "rainfade" or any issue with the satellite signal.

For anyone using a whitebox. How does it look? also on another note. How much snooping does the whitebox do? has anyone logged the traffic from it to aid in setting up a blocklist in pi-hole?

That's a pretty cool feature. I'd like to try the whitebox, but I am worried about the FFWD and Rewind. The Blackbox is much better than any streaming Service.

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#3343786 17-Feb-2025 17:06

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Bit of a worry if a customer is not on a unlimited data plan 🤔

Not a Sky customer so don't know the answer to this: Can it be used without being connected to the Internet? So if you dont want it chewing through all your data you can make it behave like a "dumb" decoder?

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#3343792 17-Feb-2025 17:49

Sky lists the whitebox as 'Internet required'. I believe this is because firmware updates are done over the internet now.

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#3343917 17-Feb-2025 21:17

I imagine, like anything sky does, it'll be poorly implemented and result in worse experience

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#3343922 17-Feb-2025 21:26

Yes - just seen a report that the whitebox will only record programs when there is satellite signal available. So there is at least one feature that does not work if the whitebox switches to an internet feed.

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#3344023 17-Feb-2025 22:34

OldGeek:

Yes - just seen a report that the whitebox will only record programs when there is satellite signal available. So there is at least one feature that does not work if the whitebox switches to an internet feed.

IF that's true, it's a deal breaker for me.

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#3344028 17-Feb-2025 22:45

networkn:

OldGeek:

Yes - just seen a report that the whitebox will only record programs when there is satellite signal available. So there is at least one feature that does not work if the whitebox switches to an internet feed.

IF that's true, it's a deal breaker for me.

Yes true

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#3344034 17-Feb-2025 23:07

dfnt:

I imagine, like anything sky does, it'll be poorly implemented and result in worse experience

Thankfully for their sake and yours, subscribing is totally within your control.