wireless video sender???.

donutheadhomer

Can anyone recommend a wireless video sender to send sky+ from the skyplus box to a TV in another room upstairs? Also how does the upstairs TV pickup the signal and how would I change channels on the upstairs TV?
Thanks but I'm a bit stupid in this regard.

I've also got eircom broadband wireless in the house so I don't know if this will be an issue

Plascebo

EurasianBadger,

I bought a video sender from Lidl a while back, they re-stock them every so while and I find it works great.
Basically you link a "sender" to your sky box via the scart (with an attachment for the infrared, i.e. to change channels), this transmits a signal to a "receiver" that you link to the back of you tv upstairs through scart, and wallah, you can now view and change channels from your sky in a second room (only downside is, you can't watch two separate channels, i.e., what you watch on the main tv is what you must watch on the tv receiving the signal).

donutheadhomer

But it is possible to change channels on the second TV? ie If I'm in bedroom and nobody is watching the sittingroom tv, can I watch whatever I want on the bedroom one?

Bummer

I got one from argos.....A "one for all" wireless audio/video sender.....You can control tv in the other room and is really handy.Overall argos has a good range.....

edit::You need two digibox's to watch to dif channels.

Plascebo

Yep,

The receiver on the second tv changes the channel on the sky box downstairs (you can change channels in your bedroom )

donutheadhomer

do you think they will interfere with the wireless broadband

Nick_oliveri

Probably not. The girlfriend had one working last year with wireless (eircom) until the reciever broke. She bought another this week and all is good.

Bummer

I haver the reciver in the same room and broadband and there is an interference on the tv screen.......What i do is turn of the wi-fi and there is not interference after....can be annoying when you want the wifi on.

TM

EurasianBadger wrote: »

do you think they will interfere with the wireless broadband

2.4GHz (not sure if there are any other kind?) video senders normally have 4 channels A, B, C, D. The manual may state what specific 2.4GHz band frequencies these relate to. But maybe not. What I normally do is configure the WLAN for channel 1 or 11 and then the video sender for D or A to try to keep them "as far apart as possible". This normally minimizes interference (assuming of course that all of your neighbours are not also on channel 1 or 11 or whatever! ). You can usually see the difference (i.e. more interference on the TV) if you choose channel 1 and A or 11 and D or whatever. Even with 1/D or 11/A you may still see some interference from time to time. Play around and see what you get. BTW - remember that only 802.11 channels 1, 6 and 11 are "theoretically" non overlapping and having two WLANs on 1 and 4 for example will still interfere. Check out Wikipedia for more info. And don't forget that there may be other sources of 2.4GHz interference at home and from the neighbours such as baby monitors, some cordless phones (not DECT though), other WLANs, microwave ovens etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.11#Channels_and_international_compatibility

Just to add...

You can get the list of 802.11 channel frequencies here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels

And compare it to the 4 channel frequencies for your video sender (I presume that these are the de facto or de jure video sender 2.4GHz channel frequencies?):

http://kbase.x10.com/wiki/Video_Sender_2.4_GHz_Interference