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kiwifidget

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#318682 11-Feb-2025 17:57
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Just a couple of minutes ago, both decoders lost signal and still out.

 

We have a new dish and lnb, recently realigned, so wasnt expecting this.





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rlevis
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  #3341584 11-Feb-2025 18:03
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No issue here in Tauranga, but using a 80cm privately installed dish.




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  #3341586 11-Feb-2025 18:14
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We lost Sky in Northland around 5.50pm 


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  #3341587 11-Feb-2025 18:14
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Died in Invercargill also. We have never had a problem before, so suggests problems are escalating...

 

 




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  #3341591 11-Feb-2025 18:21
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Hi, we too lost it for 10-15 min in lower NI.

 

 

 

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  #3341594 11-Feb-2025 18:29
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At least there's SkyGo in the meantime?

 

 


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  #3341595 11-Feb-2025 18:30
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Oh, so just the wobble then?

 

It was out for about 10 or so minutes.

 

Thank goodness for Freeview or I would have missed the end of The Chase!





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  #3341722 11-Feb-2025 21:39
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Same here, no signal in lower NI also. Came back around 6.30pm

 

We had avoided the issues so far and Channel 888 was looking good until today…. Hopefully a one off


 
 
 

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  #3341739 12-Feb-2025 03:34
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Us too, lower NI.


  #3341765 12-Feb-2025 08:29
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I had "no satellite signal" on some channels (e.g. TVNZ1, TV2), but working fine on others (e.g. 3), then the box rebooted itself about 6:30 and I had all channels back.

 

Most peculiar

 

 


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  #3341783 12-Feb-2025 09:20
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Our new white box at 5.50pm came up with a message that “due to satellite signal loss it had switched to streaming” (didn’t now it would do this automatically?) and the Chase hardly stuttered. Went straight away and checked satellite signal and both tuners were showing 0 signal but box still worked as normal as far as I could see. Satellite Signal came back before the news. Happy if this is an advantage of the new box which i put off getting for as long as i could, but after a couple of weeks I’m more than pleased with. My box it ethernet connected to max fibre.


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  #3341949 12-Feb-2025 13:05
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Around 5.50pm for 5 to 10 minutes Sky had an uplink failure due to a torrential rainstorm which resulted in a nationwide outage

 

For once it wasn't the users dish/lnb or wobbly satellite to blame.

 

Nice to see the signal failure streaming backup option is now working. I wonder what streams it taps into, would be keen to see if anyone can log the traffic.

 

 

 

 


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  #3342050 12-Feb-2025 17:41
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Apsattv:

 

Nice to see the signal failure streaming backup option is now working. I wonder what streams it taps into, would be keen to see if anyone can log the traffic.

 

 

It's just the same streaming system (and streams) as what Sky Go uses I believe (just with an expanded set of channels beyond those available on Sky Go)


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  #3342057 12-Feb-2025 18:06
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RedactedRetracted:

 

 

 

It's just the same streaming system (and streams) as what Sky Go uses I believe (just with an expanded set of channels beyond those available on Sky Go)

 

 

It uses the same streams as the Sky Pod (which has all the channels except TVNZ) 





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  #3342158 12-Feb-2025 20:00
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Well the Sky go ones have the logo top right so easy to identify. Have not got an example playpath of the SKY pod ones to compare quality.

 

Does anyone have a skypod? and can log the playpath or part of the playpath for me?

 

Interested in if Tvnzs is there or not they may have hidden it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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