second sky connection

rebelflossy

Hi all,
I currently have a single sky connection in my living room.
The cable coming from the sky disk is coming into the house via a hole drilled by the installer and is connecting directly to the sky box.
I'm in a new house and there are a few cable connections in the house that are currently not used. They are covered by a blank socket cover with the cable tied up behind it.

I want to get a sesond connection in the bedroom so that I can watch the same channels upstairs(I don't need mulit room viewing). There is a a similar cable point in the bedroom.

I contacted a local SKY agent who says that he can use the cables that are currently not used but that I also need a red eye device (he says it is about the size of a small mouse) in one of the rooms connected to one of the telly's.


He is charging me €74 to do this.

I was told thatI could do this myself by buying 2 Aerial plates + 1 Aeriel lead out of sky box into living room + buy the red eye and hook that up to 2nd ariel plate in the bedroom.

Has anyone done this out there???

disneylad

get a response on this?

mathias

Yes this is very easy to do , the " magic eye " as its called usually comes in a pack with a second sky remote and the magic eye itself ,
you connect using RF2 on the back of the sky box and the magic eye goes between the co ax and the tv at the other end.

You leave the eye so that you can point the remote at it to change channels.

The eye itself is very cheap , heres one on ebay ,
http://cgi.ebay.ie/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110099234135&ssPageName=MERCOSI_VI_ROSI_PR4_PCN_BIX_Stores&refitem=150098247839&itemcount=4&refwidgetloc=closed_view_item&refwidgettype=osi_widget

There are also packs with the remote and the eye
These can be got in maplins for 20 sterling ( about 30 euros )

http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?ModuleNo=36559&doy=7m3

Full setup instructions are in the pack