Sky Q

you're right, DW, when browsing On Demand you'll see a small proportion of items with a different 'play' logo, these are already on your box in the non-user area and can be played straight away.

often, but not always, the Movie Premiers are loaded this way, so instantly accessible...

Thanks Deganwyman I was hoping that was the case. The engineer gave the impression that it was a fairly constant happening. I can live with that.

BB. I am not bothered about Sky Q in the van just the ability to continue to get Sky when required whilst away. The point of the question was purely can I continue to set up Sky in the van without much difficulty if I changed home system to Sky Q. Deganwyman has kindly and patiently explained how that can be achieved and the changes needed to accomplish this. 

I am also not overly bothered about changing the home system, but as Sky have told me I can have it without additional cost due to 15yrs a customer. I thought it would be worth considering. The only benefit I can see to our home use would be the ability to record and watch more at the same time than at present. 

Thanks Paul

Meter arrived today, so tried it out ready for next trip. All seemed to work as you demonstrated.

Glad my advice helped. Enjoy your next trip. Lake District for us next week.

Moving along a little - I have a roof mounted,auto seeking, satellite dish but according to the Sky Engineer I merely need to tell my box that I have only one LNB in order to receive the TV signal. Does anyone have experience of this?  By the way my box is an old one NOT a 'Q' box.

Hi, I would really appreciate your help.

I purchased the exact same set up you have shown but can' get the meter to work?

Basically if I connect it to the hd side and aim the dish east I get a signal strength of about 90% but zero quality?

Tried lots of things but wondered if you could show some screen shots of the settings you have on the meter when looking for the sky / Astra satellite? 

I am charging the meter battery now as I'm wondering if that was affecting things?

Thanks

Dave

Hello Dave

the meter should be setup to look at the Astra Satellite as shown in my pic below. The signal strength is basically showing you that there is a good connection between the LNB and the meter. The quality is what is being received from the satellite. The most obvious answer is the dish isn’t pointing quite in the correct direction, or the meter is looking for the wrong satellite. To aim the dish requires slight movement of the dish and includes vertical position, horizontal and skew which is how far the lnb is turned in relation to the dish. Be patient you are trying to pick up a very small signal and you will develop your own process that works for you.

Firstly the elevation as a rule of thumb the dish should almost look like it’s facing horizontal. Not pointing towards the sky (common mistake).

the skew tends not to need too much adjustment across the U.K. and should appear to be slightly twisted off centre.

the horizontal alignment is approximately at 145 degrees so I would sweep the dish slowly across this heading and watching and listen for the quality to increase. I regularly achieve a quality reading of 98% plus.

If you suspect the meter is faulty or not set up correctly connect it to a known HD Sat dish at home (or a friends) to test and prove it.

good luck 

Paul 

sorry pic would not attach to the above post

Deganwyman.

Thanks for your advice. The set up worked in six locations in France as far down as La Rochelle.

I came across a web page that gives all the settings for europe. called aiming a dish at Astra 2 that was very helpful.

I did encounter of area where I had a very strong signal on the meter, however the sky box had no signal. it took the settings from the above website to get me on signal which was about 5 degrees out.This also gave a strong signal on the meter.

Hi there,

Stumbled across this post from 2018 :-)

Our setup currently see's me having a SKY HD+ subscription for use at home with a HD multi room box installed in the motorhome.  So that when we are away in the van, the home box continues to record our series linked items and the multi room subscription allows us to get our standard channels whilst on the move.

So now I want Sky Q at home and have been reluctant to ditch HD+ due to 'risking' losing use of Sky when motorhoming for 9 months now until reading this old post.

If I'm reading the earlier posts right, you can upgrade to Sky Q and use this at home.  When you want to go away in the motorhome you take out the Sky Q card and pair it with the Sky HD box and you still get your Sky channels as if at home. Is that correct?

If that is the case then it will save me upgrading my satellite dome for a Sky Q compatible Maxview Target system (£2k). PS - I do not want Sky Q functionality whilst touring, I just want to have the ability when on hook-up that we can receive the Sky channels and BT Sport (Moto GP races & football in particular)

My other query would be, if the Sky Q card is removed from the Q home box and paired to the HD box in the motorhome, does the series linked channels still record on the Sky Q box at home?

BTW - I too can upgrade to Q for free AND they give one Q multiroom device FoC at present so I'll have 2 rooms with TV's in the house with the WiFi. (I know this extra box will not be used away from the home WiFi)

Hopefully someone can confirm my questions, thanks