Will Sky allow you to install it yourself??

dlambirl

Hi everyone.

I wanna get Sky+ installed but i dont want the sky installers to do it cos my set up is complicated and my local tv person cant do sky+ cos of some reason or other....

So could i get the equipment or the sky+ box and viewing card off sky and say that i'm gonna do it myself and get my installer to do it??

swoofer

that's an interesting one, have you got the dish etc already available? As the offer is from sky they will use an aprroved installer ie he will get box etc. When he calls he may have to ring sky via installers menu so that he gets paid. I'm sure if you speak nicely to installer in advance he may be delighted to turn up drop box, get paid and make off. But what about your guarantee? If box goes wrong they could blame you etc?

Ring sky and ask them?

Let me know the outcome?
gb--

Duke Fame

I asked sky about this last week and they said they had to install it. The
guy I talked to didnt seem to know the time of day. Post if they will allow you. I didnt want to pay the 99 euro fot the box and another 99 for the install.

dlambirl

Its not that i dont want to pay for the sky installation cos the tv fella that i'd be getting to install it would be charging me and probably more than sky. but i just want it done the way i want it (cos its a complicated set up) and i've heard the sky installers arent very sympathetic to that and just do a very basic install.

20goto10

You can indeed. I went the self install route myself and just had to get the viewing card off sky. My case was different in that Sky were refusing to install it for me. they kept insisting I lived in an apartment block when I didn't! I don't know where they got their information from Anyway, they had no problem sending me a viewing card and leaving the installation up to myself. I also had to buy the box seperately. Take a look on adverts there's usually a few going.

jonathan11

I upgraded from sky to sky+ and did the job myself, bought the sky+ box on ebay, bought the quad lnb, ran the extra cable and rang sky to activate sky+ on my account.

Maybe you could get the sky guy to install it and run the cables in a window, afterwards you could get your local installer to chage aound the cables and set it up as you want it. As far as I know sky is free installation so you might as well get him to put up the dish etc. verify its working.

Tony

What you need to do is get your own guy to install the dish cabling and phone line and then order from sky. Sky's installer will be delighted he has very little work to do.

dlambirl

Tony wrote: »

What you need to do is get your own guy to install the dish cabling and phone line and then order from sky. Sky's installer will be delighted he has very little work to do.

Hi Tony - me again!

So i should get my own guy to install the dish, the lnb and the wires into the house and down to the tvs?? They'l be no phone line though.

And then sky comes out with the sky+ box and just hooks it up to the cables that my guy has put in place and tunes in the sky channels??

My house already has the tvs wired to one central location. Does the 2 sky+ wires have to comes directly from the dish across the first floor down the wall to the living room on the ground floor out the socket into the sky+ box or can the 2 sky cables from the lnb come into the central location and be joined with the existing cabling that is in the walls and already in place?

Sorry for being so annoying guys :rolleyes:

Tony

Hi again,

Your local installer should be able to advise you as to whether you can use the existing cable or not. Maybe other guys know here but I thought sky were still insisting on a phone line for sky +, perhaps someone can correct me on this. Once the cable are connected and dish installed it should take no more than 20 mins to set up the box.

dlambirl

No as far as i know (unless its changed in the last month) that you can get sky+ without a phoneline....just pay for non-standard installation.

So would you suggest that my tv guy install the dish or the sky installer?

Tony

Read my post #7 above

Mayo Exile

Same question, but a different scenario. I'm in an apartment with a shared Satellite/UHF TV system supplying the building. Satellite socket is active with an FTA/Freesat box connected at the moment. What should I do if I wanted to subscribe to Sky?

Onikage

Mayo Exile wrote: »

Same question, but a different scenario. I'm in an apartment with a shared Satellite/UHF TV system supplying the building. Satellite socket is active with an FTA/Freesat box connected at the moment. What should I do if I wanted to subscribe to Sky?

Just one socket? The installer will unplug the FTA box and attach the sky box.

Mayo Exile

Originally posted by Onikage: Just one socket? The installer will unplug the FTA box and attach the sky box.

Second socket in bedroom. FTA box attached there as well. How would Sky+ be put in? Can it be done with a shared dish system?

Sam Radford

The installer will unplug the FTA box and attach the sky box.

Mayo Exile

Originally posted by Sam Radford: The installer will unplug the FTA box and attach the sky box.

Doesn't a Sky+ box require two inputs (for the two tuners)? If I can't connect the second input, can the box be set up and used like a basic Digibox? Could a Sky+ HD box also be set up to work this way?

von Smallhausen

Mayo Exile wrote: »

Doesn't a Sky+ box require two inputs (for the two tuners)? If I can't connect the second input, can the box be set up and used like a basic Digibox? Could a Sky+ HD box also be set up to work this way?

whats the point of that?

Mayo Exile

Sorry. Meant a Sky+ HD box. Thinking of getting Sky HD. If you couldn't get the second input connected because I have a shared dish system, could it be connected like an ordinary Digibox? Obviously you'd lose the recording facilities.

Tony

Yes you can do this

Mayo Exile wrote: »

Sorry. Meant a Sky+ HD box. Thinking of getting Sky HD. If you couldn't get the second input connected because I have a shared dish system, could it be connected like an ordinary Digibox? Obviously you'd lose the recording facilities.

lawhec

Danny_B wrote: »

whats the point of that?

The only one I can think of is that the Sky+ stb's have an S-Video output that isn't on standard Sky stb's except for a few Grundigs at the start of the decade.

Mayo Exile

originally posted by Tony: Yes you can do this

Cheers Tony.

Tony

Mayo Exile wrote: »

Cheers Tony.

Pleasure, good luck with it