hokey sky boxes

ninja · Post by **ninja** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:08 pm

i've just moved house and my new abode has sky in EVERY room (bar the bog). i only have 1 sky box and don't want to have to pay multiple subscriptions - how do i get sky in the other rooms without getting charged and arm and a leg?

ninja

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:12 pm

Sky in every room do you mean coax cable to every room ?

ninja · Post by **ninja** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:15 pm

sorry cable from the dish into every room.

also has an ariel in every room but i'm not bothered about that.

ninja

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:22 pm

not sure if the std sky boxes have a RF2 out but Sky+ boxes do. These also take signals from magic eye senders and will control the box so...

Main box in lounge with the RF2 plumbed in tothe RF circuit in the house and the Scart in to your main TC and the sat coax going in to hte box.

Each room you want to have sky in plumb in a magic eye on the RF and then you can remote contorl the box and have sky albeit via RF not scart.

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Post by **Shug** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:24 pm

Sanjoy wrote:not sure if the std sky boxes have a RF2 out but Sky+ boxes do. These also take signals from magic eye senders and will control the box so...

Main box in lounge with the RF2 plumbed in tothe RF circuit in the house and the Scart in to your main TC and the sat coax going in to hte box.

Each room you want to have sky in plumb in a magic eye on the RF and then you can remote contorl the box and have sky albeit via RF not scart.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-MAGIC-EYE-FOR ... dZViewItem

But it's worth pointing out that you can't watch different channels in different rooms with this setup. The only way I know of to do this, is pay Sky's multiroom fee.... (thieving feckers)

Post by **simon** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:29 pm

You also need a booster or the signal deteriorates too much if you send to more than 1 other room. Unfortunately the sky link doesn't work very well with boosters so you're then stuck again.

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:30 pm

Hmm can you do it with sky+ ?

BTW Loving my sky+ right now. No longer watch live TV as have all the stuff I am interested series linked. Top gear, Tour de France, Panaorama, Saxondale, will & Grace, Queer Eye for a straight guy etc. no more watchign mince while waiting for somethign of interest.

Post by **simon** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:49 pm

Sanjoy wrote:will & Grace, Queer Eye for a straight guy etc.

You trying to tell us something?

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 12:55 pm

simon wrote:
Sanjoy wrote:will & Grace, Queer Eye for a straight guy etc.
You trying to tell us something?

Loving your special rims, did I see them on QEFASG UK special ?

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Stewart · Post by **Stewart** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:52 pm

simon wrote:You also need a booster or the signal deteriorates too much if you send to more than 1 other room. Unfortunately the sky link doesn't work very well with boosters so you're then stuck again.

Running two magic eyes here with no problems.
As Sanjoy said, my main TV works of the scart, the kitchen of RF1 and the bedroom of RF2. This is with an ancient Sky box,

ninja · Post by **ninja** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 8:55 am

but the cables run directly from the dish into each room. it doesn't go into hte box and then split to serve the other rooms

will this make a difference?

ninja

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 8:59 am

Unless you have a dish for each room there is a splitter somewhere.

ninja · Post by **ninja** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 9:03 am

ah it's possible the box on the external wall then.

i'll take a look over the weekend

ninja

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 9:12 am

Gimme a call if you are stuck as usfully I have two old work collegues from Teletext Broadcast up for the weekend and a couple of Sky Tech lads!

ninja · Post by **ninja** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 9:39 am

lol

looks like my timing was spot on then

ninja