Quick question - as a temporary fix - can I swap the positions of the Q & mini box over to keep the Mrs happy? We still have the old cables from the old Sky+HD box behind the TV (if these are still connected to the dish)
Yes my mini says it is connected to home Wi-fi. However I know it is not. 1. The Wi-fi is turned off and 2. The SSID it is displaying does not exist anymore and possibly is derived from a setting on the main box that is historical and switched off. I suspect your mini is connected to Main box by Sky inbuilt Wi-fi.
I dunno, I cant get my head around that. If you unpower your router will the mini still play content already recorded on main box? If so it must be connecting directly with main, if not it doesnt prove much.So what I should do really is check that the 2 boxes have different IP adresses to confirm they have independent connections?
i've been having similar problems the past week.
i have sky q with 3 minis and i can't get any of the minis to reconnect to the q. running off a BT router with whole home wifi. had no issues for a couple of months but this happened a week ago. got them all reconnected but happened the next morning lost connection again. repeated this twice successfully but now cannot get them to reconnect.
i've tried removing the whole home wifi and still cannot get them to reconnect so that is not the issue. numerous reports of this out there but cannot find a good solution. sky blame bt and vice versa. sky or bt have pushed out an update that has caused issues in my opinion.
q box is fine. had to resort to using the iPad and sky app upstairs.
No I just used an unlisted IP numberDid you set the tablet's static IP to one that is outside the hub's DHCP range?