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Moving sky box

  • 08-12-2009 12:15am
    #1
    Joey the lips
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,262 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi Folks

    Looking for a bit of advice. Following on from an idea i seen in a friends house. I have a sky box and tv in my kitchen. I am getting a new tele. Flatter screen so its neater and closer the wall.

    My idea is to move the sky box into the sitting room. I can then use the sky eye to change the stations in the kitchen. You catch me. I will have no box in the kitchen and only one lead for the socket and one lead or 2 for the aerials. So what i need to know is

    1. Do i need to run 2 leads from the sky box. A. The standard TV lead and B. A lead for the sky eye????

    2. Do I need to buy a second sky box or is there any freeview boxes with a second rf 2 output. The reason i ask this is I think i connect the sky eye to the RF22 output

    Thanks again


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  • #2
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,684 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    If you have the sky on the two tvs, you must currently have:
    sky cable from dish to box in kitchen.
    possibly additional aerial cable to box in kitchen for old rte/uk channels.
    cable from sky box to other tv.

    If you move the box, you will only need one cable going to kitchen tv and the magic eyes is connected into this. You will however need the 3 cables going to new box location. If you dont have old style aerials along with the sky, you will only need 2 cables and if you have sky plus, you will need one extra cable to sky box location


  • #3
    Joey the lips
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,262 ✭✭✭✭Joey the lips


    mickdw wrote: »
    If you have the sky on the two tvs, you must currently have:
    sky cable from dish to box in kitchen.
    possibly additional aerial cable to box in kitchen for old rte/uk channels.
    cable from sky box to other tv.

    If you move the box, you will only need one cable going to kitchen tv and the magic eyes is connected into this. You will however need the 3 cables going to new box location. If you dont have old style aerials along with the sky, you will only need 2 cables and if you have sky plus, you will need one extra cable to sky box location


    Can you just explain that again. Bear in mind i wont be watching the box in the sitting room. i will be watching it in the kitchen. I am putting it in a press to get it out of the way. I have no aerial and am not interested in RTE. Thanks


  • #4
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    A Sky eye goes inline into the coax cable and is powered from the RF2

    So you need the lead from the dish to go to the sittingroom, and a coax from the RF2 to the kitchen.

    Depending on your wiring, the existing aerial lead / wall socket might do, but some of them include "one-way" electronics that stop the Sky eye from sending a return signal, so they don't work.


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