Old Sky remotes for Sky+

glineli

Hi

I just got sky+ installed yesterday, its great.

I have it going out to the other rooms aswell. Just wondering do the old sky remotes work on the sky plus or is there any way to get them up and running just so i can change the channels??

I kept the old sky box, got it up and running. I had that going to the other tvs aswell, via coax, with the aerial channels and the sky+ channels, however i found picture quality was a little poor so at the moment i just disconnected it from the other feeds. Is there anyway i could boost the picture quality at the other ends or am i trying to transmit too much via the one coax?

Thanks

mumhaabu

What you need is a distribution amplifier for combing all the different feeds into one. It will boost up the signal and bring it to reasonable quality.

A standard sky remote will not work on a Sky+ box

A Sky+ remote willl not work on a standard Sky Digibox

At least when you try them they won't however all you need to do is:

To make a standard sky remote operate a Sky+ Box

on the remote control

1) Press TV button
2) Hold down select and yellow together until LED blinks twice.
3) Press 1
4) Press select

N.B. To make a Sky+ remote operate as standard digibox press 0 in step 3 instead of 1.

However your standard sky remote will only change channels and do everything it does on a standard Sky box as it lacks the pause rewind buttons etc.

I have a Sky+ Box in my living room and a coax feeding to my bedroom with a Magic Eye and another Sky+ remote for changing channel from my bedroom.

http://www.tvlink.co.uk/ have a great range of products for various Sky setups most of which can be done by an average DIY person.

I bought my Magic Eye and Sky+ remote for less than the cost of a Sky+ remote here on eBay from the UK. You should run a third satellite cable from the Quad LNB and use your old digibox in a different room with the free channels or else a "FREESAT from Sky card" which gives you Channel 5 and Channel 4 on the EPG.

glineli

well i have the old box now set up in the sitting room, along with the sky+. i then have the sky+ connected to another room, and can use the magic eye on that, so happy days there. I can watch bbc/itv and herself can watch sky movies or whatever in another room.

Although i was also passing the freeview symbol into the other room, the quality of the other channels got worse, so for the moment i have that disconnected.
Would a booster help this??

Where can you get a freesat card?

5h4mr0(k

To make a standard sky remote operate a Sky+ Box

on the remote control

1) Press TV button
2) Hold down select and yellow together until LED blinks twice.
3) Press 1
4) Press select

N.B. To make a Sky+ remote operate as standard digibox press 0 in step 3 instead of 1.

Great info! Should be added to a sticky somewhere!

glineli

Excellent, that worked

mumhaabu

glineli wrote: »

Where can you get a freesat card?

It is confusing! Freesat is a British free-to-air digital satellite television service developed by the BBC and ITV see www.freesat.co.uk it is like a branded FTA box with its own special EPG with listings similar to Sky. You do not need a card to use this service it is entirely free bar the equipment cost.

Then you have Freesat from Sky this is very similar to normal Sky TV see http://www.freesatfromsky.co.uk/, i.e you have a sky digibox and remote and you have a special "Freesat from Sky card" which decrypts channels such as FIVE which are normally scrambled. Officially it is only available to UK residents but many people in Ireland have the cards, got from relations etc.

They can be "bought" on certains sites although the card always remains the property of NDS and BSKYB, ebay banned the sale of them although they are still sometimes shipped with digiboxes for sale. To get one from the UK costs £20 and it must be shipped to a UK Address (limit of 4 per address). It is a great way for sky to get equipment into homes that don't want to pay subscriptions and then lure them in with enticing offers. Previously it was know as the BBC FTV Card.

FTV = Free to View, a card like the Freesat from Sky card is needed to descramble the signal.

FTA = Free to Air, the signal can be watched by anyone with a simple FTA box or Freesat reciever.

glineli

mumhaabu wrote: »

It is confusing! Freesat is a British free-to-air digital satellite television service developed by the BBC and ITV see www.freesat.co.uk it is like a branded FTA box with its own special EPG with listings similar to Sky. You do not need a card to use this service it is entirely free bar the equipment cost.

Then you have Freesat from Sky this is very similar to normal Sky TV see http://www.freesatfromsky.co.uk/, i.e you have a sky digibox and remote and you have a special "Freesat from Sky card" which decrypts channels such as FIVE which are normally scrambled. Officially it is only available to UK residents but many people in Ireland have the cards, got from relations etc.

They can be "bought" on certains sites although the card always remains the property of NDS and BSKYB, ebay banned the sale of them although they are still sometimes shipped with digiboxes for sale. To get one from the UK costs £20 and it must be shipped to a UK Address (limit of 4 per address). It is a great way for sky to get equipment into homes that don't want to pay subscriptions and then lure them in with enticing offers. Previously it was know as the BBC FTV Card.

FTV = Free to View, a card like the Freesat from Sky card is needed to descramble the signal.

FTA = Free to Air, the signal can be watched by anyone with a simple FTA box or Freesat reciever.

thanks for that. really clears it up.

What i just want now is to be able to get Channel 4 through other channels, but the codings i used have channel 4 with no sound. Do you happen to have the correct settings?

thanks again