im cracking up over my sky eye

auditek923

please help. maybe i should get a professional in. im in monaghan /louth area , carrickmacross is the town...


anyways, i have a sky box in bedroom 1,
i have a cable running from it to bedroom 2, thru the sky eye that was working perfectly till today.
yesterday i bought a 3 pronged splitter and installed sky tv to bedroom 3. then today i bought a second sky eye and connected it in bedroom 3. i now have sky tv in all 3 bedrooms but none of my ske eyes are working at all now. not even when i plug out the new eye and just leave the original operational. the led light is coming on but the sky remote is not responding with the sky eye in bedroom 2. .please help

Tony

You most likely need to switch the power off and on again in the installer meny to get one eye working. Fitting the spliiter was a bad idea to be brutally honest as you should have used a sky compatible amp like an f140 or similar.

Hope this helps

auditek923

so its the splitter that causing the problems for the eyes???? should i get a professional in?

Tony

auditek923 wrote: »

so its the splitter that causing the problems for the eyes???? should i get a professional in?

Try a sky compatible amp first I reckon, then if you are still having problems get somebody in.

auditek923

i have an unused labgear model msa242 4 way dis amp ..... will this work.... i cant test it tonight , as i need a co axial cable and tv points

Tony

No, as I said previously it needs to be a sky compatible amp

auditek923 wrote: »

i have an unused labgear model msa242 4 way dis amp ..... will this work.... i cant test it tonight , as i need a co axial cable and tv points

auditek923

Tony wrote: »

No, as I said previously it needs to be a sky compatible amp

ok thanks. do you know how much one would cost me?

padocon

Sorry I can be of no help, but whats a Sky Eye?

Triangle

You can get them cheap enough.

A quick web browse shows a F140 splitter for 21Stg (prob Exc Vat and postage)

Check around.

Trig

John mac

one of these will do the job.

Darth Maul

try plugging out the connection to the second TV altogether to see if it works, if so you will need to decouple the second TV, basically a small voltage from the TVs rf connector knocks out cheap magic eyes, seen this a few times.

see link here for details,


also if you get one of these to split the signal usually solves the problem too, by keeping both signal totally seperate.

auditek923

Tony wrote: »

You most likely need to switch the power off and on again in the installer meny to get one eye working. Fitting the spliiter was a bad idea to be brutally honest as you should have used a sky compatible amp like an f140 or similar.

Hope this helps

i ordered the f140 today on sat.ie

auditek923

i stll cannot operate the 3rd rooms sky eye, and did not get better quality (actually worse) thru the f140 in room 2 and 3...have to get a pro in tomorrow. will let ya know how i get on.....why cant things be easier in life