Sky+ with only one tuner connected

redout

Will Sky+ still record if one of the coax cables is removed (otherwords only 1 tuner). Obviously only one tuner but if not watching anything else I presume it should still record ?

Thanks

steveon

Yes it will still record the channel you are watching providing the cable is in input no1 .. if u try and change the channel then it will display no satellite signal received.

MarkK

If you have a Sky+ HD box with the new EPG (TV Guide), you should set the box to "Single Feed Mode"
See this PDF for instruction on how to set it up:
http://www1.sky.com/HDGuide/pdf/HD_EPG_MICROSITE.pdf


If you have the normal old EPG, in order to make scheduled recordings, you have to fool the Sky+ box into thinking the second input is busy, so it will not try to use it.

Connect the single cable to input 1 and set a manual recording on a channel you never watch, (I used Bloomberg on 502) to record from 4am to 3am (lasting 23 hours) repeated daily.
This recording will always fail but take virtually zero hard disk space.

This works because input 1 is the channel normally used for viewing (from switch on with nothing recording) and input 2 is normally used for the first scheduled recording. If an input is already in use the box will automatically switch to the other input for whatever it wants to do. Because the dummy manual recording is already telling the box that it is already using input 2, anything else will happen on input 1. With this setup you can do any one of three things
1 Watch one channel.
2 Record one channel (either timed via Planner or by pressing Record whilst viewing).
3 Record one channel and watch a previous recording.

redout

Thats good advice.

Thanks