PSL

Without paying Sky for an extra box

I've got Sky downstairs and it'd be handy to have it in the bedroom too. I wouldn't really need to use the control upstairs as I'd be happy to come downsairs to change channel.

I seemed to remember somebody saying you can utilise the existing wiring that goes to the aerial on the roof to get sky in the bedroom (which is also wired to the roof aerial.

Anybody know how this is done or another way of getting the same result?

jock05

Do you want to watch and control Sky in your bedroom whilst the box is in another room? If so you want a Magic Eye as found here: http://www.simplydigital.co.uk/acata...FQF7aAodYD3H2w
You will need to take a coaxial wire from the back of the box to the connector on the magic eye. Then you can switch channels whilst the box is in another room.

Thrush

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As said - Magic Eye is the way to do it... Fuck going downstairs to change channel Thats worse than the old days when you had to get up to change the TV channel - and even then the TV was only a couple metre's away

lardypants

as above we have sky and would love it int he bedroom, someone said i need a wireless tv sender or something similar if i remember rightly

cossiegreg1

this is what you want quick its cheep
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SKY-DIGITEL-RE...QQcmdZViewItem

Thrush

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You could use an AV sender (http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...704&doy=search) which will send the output of the device (in this case, a Sky box) to the scart input of any TV the reciever module is plugged into, but there are two probs with that.....

1) You won't have use of the remote control, so if the Sky box is downstairs and TV is upstairs, you need to get out of bed, go downstairs to changel channel, turn it off, change volume etc....

2) If your device doesn't have two scart outputs, then you have to manually unplug the scart from tv it is plugged into and plug in the AV sender transmitter scart - pain in the ass!

PSL

OK, maybe I'm being dense (probably) but does this transmit the signal too?

cossiegreg1

go buy the amount of cable you will need to reach from your sky box to your second tv.
stick this device in the back of bedroom tv(ariel socket).
plug cable you in and bobs your uncle.
dont worry instructions come with the kit. its a peice of piss.

SteveB

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I was running 4 TV's off my Sky box until I go an extra box upstairs which I now use for the 3 TV's in the bedrooms. Only 1 "eye" tho as haven't got the signal strength to run 2 "eyes".
Piece of piss to do and if all you want is to run 1 extra TV from a Sky box it'll take 20 minutes max to do the whole job

Steve

COMEDY DAN

Cheap multi room, how cool.

lardypants

so ive got to runa cable from my box downstairs all the way upstairs....? bollox to that then

PSL

Pretty much what I was thinking as I've just finished decorating the house right through including new carpets. Plus the sky box is at the back of the house downstairs and my bedroom is upstairs at the front of the house!!

Is there another way or can I utilise the cables already running to both TV's from the TV aerial on the roof? There's a double socket in the loft where the aerial lead comes in from the roof, then it's split, one for downstairs, the other for the bedroom?????

lardypants

yes you get the tv wireless sender m8

smudge_lad

not if you definitely want the sky matey, the cable needs to come from the back of the box.

As said, get a digi sender thingy so you dont have to run cables upstairs

Thrush

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The "digi sender thing" only transmits the picture feed from the box - it won't allow you to control the box from another room like the Magic Eye will... Just wanted to point that out.....

cossiegreg1

well ring sky and buy another box and pay the extra tenner a month.

Thrush

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Still have to run a cable tho - how else would he get the sky feed in?

McGoo 69

weve got it in every room in the house using one box. we did it before this magic eye thing came out but can only watch one channel.

you have to use a arial booster to take the signal round the house

this way you can do it to as many tellys as you want.

SteveB

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Paul,


you have to be difficult......


You could run a quad LNB (the bit on the front of the dish) and run a sererate wire from the Sky dish to the bedroom, but its more work and more ŁŁŁ


Steve

Lambchop

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you could perhaps do what i have done in my house.

in my loft there are 2 aerials that go to 2 seperate wall sockets in the house, 1 in living room and 1 in bedroom.

Now for the eye to work you need a connection from the output of sky up to the sky eye which plugs to the tv upstairs.

what you have means that this should be a piece of piss!

run a wire from back of sky box to the aerial socket in living room. go to loft and disconnect both wires from splitter and join them. Now run wire from bedroom socket to tv via sky eye and et voila

now when we move next month its a whole new kettle of fish as i have more rooms to feed. Im gonna get multi room for the 2nd living room but am hoping to use a similar method of using existing sockets to feed kitchen and bedroom. Hope to fuck it works!! lol

PSL

Cool, that's exactly the answer I was hoping for. I'll get on and order one

Thanks a lot to everbody else for their input too

PSL

I know mate, sorry!!