Category: Sky Q

  • Sky Q Formula One UHD Failed Recordings

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    This morning was the first live qualifying of Formula One available in Ultra HD on Sky Q, and it’s looking like it’s caused issues for lots of people. There are reports on Twitter and Sky’s forums of numerous issues – “Part Recorded” or “Failed” for Qualifying this morning. Other people report green screens, artefacts and blocky…

  • Sky Q Missing Thumbnails

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    22nd March Edit: Version 4 of the EPG rolled out today to all users. This changes the way the data is loaded from UDP to TCP, and should fix this bug. There’s a common ‘bug’ with Sky Q that results in people seeing empty blue squares where the thumbnails should be. I’ve tried to help…

  • Sky Q UPnP, REST and WebSocket API interfaces

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    It’s been a few years since we got into digging around Sky+HD’s UPnP control protocol, but having recently updated to Sky Q, there are a few changes that break the way we were talking to the box. Backwards Compatibility The Sky Q box contains pretty much the same UPnP advertised control system as Sky+HD, and…