Sky Stream IP
Sky Stream and Sky Glass from Control4 over IP, speaking the native protocol, no IR.
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Sky Stream IP
Sky Stream and Sky Glass from Control4 over IP, speaking the native protocol, no IR.
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Sky moved its set-top boxes onto IP and left the control integrations behind. Most Control4 projects still drive a Sky Stream with infrared: a flasher taped to a box, no feedback about what the box is actually doing, and a remote that works until somebody moves the furniture.
This driver speaks Sky's own protocol over the network. It discovers the box on the LAN, pairs with it, and holds an authenticated session open, so commands are acknowledged rather than fired into the air. It wakes a sleeping box rather than needing one left on.
Because the session is real, the driver knows the box's state. Control4 gets a device that reports back, not a one-way blaster.
- Finds the box itself
- mDNS discovery populates a list of boxes on the network; the installer picks one instead of typing an address.
- Holds a real session
- Pair, bind and keyatomic handshake over mutual TLS, kept alive on a configurable interval, so commands are acknowledged rather than fired blind.
- Wakes a sleeping box
- Wake-on-LAN, with an optional keep-awake while the device is selected, so a project does not depend on leaving the box powered on.
- Reports its state back
- Connection status, device id and the discovered address are live properties, visible in Composer and usable in programming.
- Imports the channel list
- One command pulls the channel lineup off the box, so the project does not carry a hand-kept list that goes stale.
- Every button is remappable
- Menu, Info, Guide, Prev, Cancel, Stop and the four colour buttons each map to a chosen command, because no two Sky remotes have ever agreed.
- Two proxies, one core
- Ships as a satellite driver and as a media player from the same Lua core, so it drops into whichever shape the project already expects.
| Model | Sky Stream IP · satellite and media-player variants |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Sky |
| Protocol | Sky RICS over WebSocket, mutual TLS on port 8091 |
| Discovery | mDNS on the local network |
| Power | Wake-on-LAN, with pair / bind / keyatomic session handling |
| Hardware | Sky Stream and Sky Glass |
| Transport | IP only. No infrared, no serial, no flasher |
| Platform | Control4 DriverWorks, Lua |
| 0.9.1 | 02/09/2026 — |
|---|
Does the box have to be left switched on?
No. The driver wakes it with Wake-on-LAN, and can optionally keep it awake only while the device is selected.
Does it need an IR emitter?
No. Control is over the network, so there is no flasher to tape to a box and nothing to realign when the furniture moves.
Does it need a cloud account or a port forward?
Neither. The box and the controller need to be on the same network segment and the box reachable by mDNS. Nothing leaves the site, and the controller holds no account credentials.
What happens on a controller swap?
The licence is one per Control4 project, held against the controller. Whether a swap needs a re-issue is not settled yet, so this answer is deliberately blank rather than guessed.