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setting up sky multi room with hub

  • 19-10-2008 7:35am
    #1
    bish-bosh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28 ✭


    Folks,
    I have sky multi room installed at home with the following set up:
    Data Hub with patch pannels, telephone, 4 coax,Russond Abus AV Hub,2 sky + boxes.
    All of the comms & entertainment is fed from here.
    The Abus system has IR's in each room allowing 4 feeds to be chosen independently in each room.
    The coax in each room is fed back to a central location in the loft (8 port & 6 port splitter)
    Ideally I would like to have both sky + availaible on all TV's controlled on two of the Abus feeds.
    Question 1 Is it possible to have two seperate sky signals on the same TV ?
    Question 2 How do i get the two signals for the 2 boxes out to each TV? Is this possible our do I have to specify which TV's canuse which box ?

    Thanks, Bish


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  • #2
    bish-bosh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28 ✭bish-bosh


    Not sure if this is the right way to do this but it seems to be working..

    1.Change frequency on Sky Box 2 so it is different to Sky box 1 ( I used 38)
    2. Link Box1 Aerial to Box2 RF.
    3. Tune Tv spare channel to pick up channel 38.

    My Abus system can accomodate 4 sources which of which 2 are now Sky.


    And all seems to be working fine.
    I have also added my old box so the kids have free to air sky in their rooms.
    Same concept, new frequency link Box 2 aerial to box 3 RF.


    Regards,
    Bish


  • #3
    nc6000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,416 ✭✭✭nc6000


    Have you Sky "patched" around your house using RJ45/CAT6 cables? Can people in different rooms watch different programs?


  • #4
    bish-bosh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28 ✭bish-bosh


    At the moment it is all on coax, but i have cat5 points next to each aerial, so i will be looking at this again sometime. I need to source a good switch for this.
    When i built the house 8 years ago i had a digital converter and ran tv on cat5 but it was cumbersome so i changed back to coax.
    Regarding the channels as part of my hub i have speakers & an ir/volume switch in each room so as long as you have the sky remote you can change channels. At present i can have three sky channels (1 free to air, old box) on anywhere in the house at any one time.

    Have you tv over cat5 ? be interested to know what kind of switch/converter you use.

    Bish


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