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Can I drive a Freesat and Sky box from a single dish?

  • 10-11-2010 9:04pm
    #1
    Laphroaig52
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,146 ✭✭✭


    I have a standard SKY+ setup and I would like to add a Freesat box....maybe eventually retire SKY if it all goes well.

    I presume there is a quad LNB on the Sky dish so there will be 2 spare connections. Do I just need to drop 2 cables to the Freesat box from the dish and then both systems will work independently?

    Alternatively, is there any kind of switch that I could use the existing coax cables with that would allow me to manually switch between the 2 boxes.
    A bit messy but it would save me going up on the roof....

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    snaps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,138 ✭✭✭snaps


    Flyer28 wrote: »
    I have a standard SKY+ setup and I would like to add a Freesat box....maybe eventually retire SKY if it all goes well.

    I presume there is a quad LNB on the Sky dish so there will be 2 spare connections. Do I just need to drop 2 cables to the Freesat box from the dish and then both systems will work independently?

    Alternatively, is there any kind of switch that I could use the existing coax cables with that would allow me to manually switch between the 2 boxes.
    A bit messy but it would save me going up on the roof....

    Thanks.

    You'll just need to run a cable from one of the spare lnb connections. If its a standard freesat box then 1 cable run is ample.


  • #3
    Laphroaig52
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,146 ✭✭✭Laphroaig52


    Thanks for that.

    I will want to record while watching something else like I can on Sky so I think I will need two cables.

    Any ideas on some kind of switch box that would let me choose which box is active at any time? Any such thing?


  • #4
    Kristopherus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,907 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    If you want to record the freesat signal, then you will have to get a freesat pvr or similar. There's plenty of advice here on which is the best box to get. Also note that you will lose the "record" function if/when you ditch Sky.


  • #5
    Laphroaig52
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,146 ✭✭✭Laphroaig52


    Kristopherus wrote: »
    If you want to record the freesat signal, then you will have to get a freesat pvr or similar. There's plenty of advice here on which is the best box to get. Also note that you will lose the "record" function if/when you ditch Sky.

    Thanks. I understand all that but what I am asking is whether there is a means to switch the two coax signals between the boxes. I intend to keep Sky for a while...until I am confident that the Freesat box meets our needs.


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