2 Sky questions

Westie123

Hello,

I recently got Sky and wonder if anybody could help with the following;

(1) I cannot get teletext (Airtel) on the TV. The instructions say to press the TV button followed by text button but nothing happens. I am tuned to RTE 1 when doing this. Am I doing something wrong?

(2) I intend to get multiroom soon. When I get it will I have to leave the sky boxes powered up all the time (all through the night) so as to maintain a phone connection to Sky?

Thanks.

watty

Press Teletext on TV remote. Unless the Sky remote changes Channel, volume, Tuner / AV (= Help button) and Standby (=power) etc the Text, and coloured buttons won't work your teletext. Go to Interactive and support and find the info on programming the handset for your TV.

You have to leave the skyboxes plugged in ALL the time mostly anyway or they miss card keys / sw updates etc. "off" = red light only switches off the RF out modulator and SCART/AV connectors. It is all still running and receiveing.

Thrill

Your instructions for getting Airtel are correct (press T.V. then text)
I have a problem getting Airtel also. This was not always the case. I think
that during some really bad weather the LNB arm may have moved slightly.
Maybe you could get them to check the alignment.

I have had sky for years now and have never had a problem.
It has never been connected to a phone line as i did not have one at the time.
Switch the boxes off and on by using the power button on the sky remote.
You do not have to leave them on 24/7. Just don't unplug them.

There has been a couple of occasions when the electricity has gone down in my area over the years but once power was restored the sky box just took a minute or so to regain its satilite connection,
so dont worry to much if you blow a fuse or lose power for some reason.

byte

In some cases, the digibox stops showing the teletext, but a reboot should sort that issue.

Thrill

I also forgot to mention that sky contact's
your box through the satalite signal and not the phone.

I believe the phone connection is used mainly for ordering box office movies,
special sporting events, foreign and erotic channels,
and interactive services like betting, games, shopping, internet sites, e-mailing etc.

St Senan

Westie123 wrote:

Hello,

I recently got Sky and wonder if anybody could help with the following;

(1) I cannot get teletext (Airtel) on the TV. The instructions say to press the TV button followed by text button but nothing happens. I am tuned to RTE 1 when doing this. Am I doing something wrong?

(2) I intend to get multiroom soon. When I get it will I have to leave the sky boxes powered up all the time (all through the night) so as to maintain a phone connection to Sky?

Thanks.

When this happens again just plug out your TV {not your sky box} for a few seconds.You should get Aertel straight away when you plug it back in

phildevan1

westie123
did you get your problem sorted ,i've a similar problem with sky+ teletext ,when i press the tv button on sky+ remote and before i can press text button the sky+ box "freezes" and i have to press "sky button" to get sky box working again.
ps sky+ remote is set up to control tv.