Sky Stream has arrived in Ireland

CBBC is on 208 and CBeebies is on 209 on Sky Stream.

Channel 5 was never officially on Sky here afaik. You can tune it manually on Sky Q, as it is Freeview, but that wouldn’t apply to Stream.

Basically Channel 5 is carried free-to-air on the Astra 28.2°E satellites, as part of the Freesat service. It's only available here on a Sky satellite box because the box is able to manually tune to the channel. If you still have a dish, maybe consider setting up Freesat. Some TVs even have a DVB-S and Freesat tuner built-in.

The channel has never been officially available in Ireland, but FTA Freesat service is basically just a narrow 'spot beam' to focus the signal on the UK, Ireland is however in the footprint.

I just priced out Sky Stream out of curiosity - as a Sky Q customer, it's exactly the same price. So, I don't really see any advantage in switching over - the whole sky offering seems increasingly bad value for money.

Does anyone have a fire that I can throw these blasted sky stream pucks into?

They are truly just awful yolks.
I've lost count of the number of times that we have turned it on the next day and the live channels are gone.
I then have to reset wifi, reseat ethernet cable, move the puck around, plug it in and out a few times or just leave it sit for a half hour and then try powering it on again to see the live channels suddenly reappear.
Speaking of powering on, the remote control is garbage and doesn't seem to connect to the device half the time.
Also, when it does connect, it sometimes powers off our TV rather than touching the box.
A physical power button on the box would have been a godsend.

That's all before we even mention the painful user interface.
I'm blue in the face having to tell family how to get back to live channels after accidentally opening some app.

A few weeks ago the Channel 5 player started working without a VPN or DNS service. Not sure if that is still the case but it might be worth checking out.

Also worth noting that the carriage costs of sky stream are borne by the customer in the form of the broadband line to your house. Sky don't have to pay for satellites in space or mini-dishes attached to the side of your house, yet they will still charge you the same price for the service! Ouch!

It also means if your broadband goes then so does your TV. I've regularly had no broadband for a day or 2 during the switching process. Do sky credit your account when this happens? I'd say not

Switched my Dad from Virgin to Sky Stream, he's struggling to get the tv guide up because theres no dedicated button, he can't even grasp voice control, really wish they had thought of older folk.

The lack of an EPG button was a really poor design choice on the remote.

The out of contract prices are - Sky Ultrafast Plus 500Mb/s Broadband €64pm, Sky Essential TV with Netflix Basic €31pm. You'd be able to re-contract for a lower price but it wouldn't be as low as the new customer price.

I renewed my 12 month contract recently and had to go to cancellations to retain the same deal I was on.

tried a couple of times now to order this offer and after getting to the very end (payment details etc taken) it says “processing order” and then goes to an empty page, called sky about it and they say no order has been processed and that they can’t match online orders over the phone so I guess I’ll just stick with Vodafone 🤷🏻‍♂️

I signed up for Sky Stream on a trial as a friend works for Sky and I'm surprised by how laggy the interface is. I use eir TV with an Apple TV and other than the app sometimes logging me out it's been flawless. The Stream Puck in comparison is very laggy and slow to switch channels. I'm half wondering is the Puck I got faulty as it's so clunky!