DTT Living in Artane

Gerry1995

I'm living in Artane, Dublin 5 front of house south facing. I have sky dish on side of house facing south east (ish). I am going to use sky dish for FTA in one room and want to also get Irish channells on same TV. I am thinking of the Ferguson Combo box to achieve this. As the missus won't have two dishes on house or big outside aerial on front any suggestions how I can achieve what I want. ? Thanks for advice.

Sam Russell

To get RTE DTT you do not need a dish. All you need is a simple aerial pointing at 3 Rock, the signal is on ch 54. If you put an aerial nearby your dish, pointing towards 3R, you can use a combiner to put the two signals down the one cable. At the TV end, you use a second, identical one to split the signals.

Depending on how old your television is, you might already have a compatible TV. Does it have a digital tuner?

One source, but also available on ebay.
http://www.tvtrade.ie/alltrade-tv-aerial-and-satellite-combiner.html

They also do aerials and harware to mount it.

Fat_Fingers

I'm also in Artane, for a few years now i have technomate 6900 super combo (sat dish for Freesat + 18 elements aerial up in the attic)
Irish DTT and Sat channels all on the same EPG. Recording , live pause... Very happy with setup.

Gerry1995

TV is HD ready with Coax and HDMI input, no built in tuner. What sort of Aerial do you use in Attic?

Gerry1995

Sorry I mean what brand name and where did you get it, thanks

STB

Another Artaner.

You need to change the LNB on your Sky Dish to a Quad (if its a single) - and connect another cable to the new quad lnb to run to the room you will put the old sky box in. The ferguson box can use the existing cable run to the main room. A quad lnd can take 4 receivers. http://www.powercity.ie/?par=20-66-SKYLNB. This will mean that you wont need to take the existing dish down, just replace the lnb. Clip the existing single out and clip the new one in. There may be a fastening screw as well.

You will get away with an indoor aerial near the window cill.

I use a funke indoor 5v powered off the ctech combo. The Ferguson Ariva also has 5v phantom power on the aerial port.

What fat fingers is talking about is a UHF loft aerial. Have a look in DID at the roundabout. They tend to be dear though (DID that is).

Fat_Fingers

STB is correct, i was talking about UHF attic aerial. i got it in maplin's 3-4 years ago. i think i paid 20 euro for it.

It looks like this :

Sam Russell

Gerry1995 wrote: »

TV is HD ready with Coax and HDMI input, no built in tuner. What sort of Aerial do you use in Attic?

What model is the TV? All TVs have a tuner, otherwise they are not TVs.

Are you getting rid of sky?

watty

No tuner = Monitor. A TV MUST have a Tuner or it's not a TV.
If it was sold as a TV you are entitled to 100% refund.

A TV must have tuner that works with the Local TV signal, for at least two years or it's not "fit for purpose".

Gerry1995

TV is LG, HD Ready labeled HD Ready, Digital TV, DVB, Freeview suppose when I said no tuner I meant I will still need a stb. I currently have sky with movies and sports 1,2,3 etc. plus two additional multirooms. Kids gone now myself and wife rarely use sky movies I get them elsewhere, and am totally sick of premiership, MOTD will do. So, big saving to go basic with sky for main sitting room and FTA in kitchen with aerial for Irish chanels

STB

Gerry if its an LG xx Hx000 (eg LG 32 H3000) all have MPEG4 dvb-t tuners which will work for the Irish Digital stations.

What model have you got ?

Connect an aerial - or a coathanger and scan the dvb channels and see if they tune in.

Gerry1995

STB, It's LG19LS4D, I plugged an aerial in with DVT port selected and told it to scan for channels and it scanned UHF and at CH 54 I get 7 TV and 10 radio channels found as follows:
TV
801 RTE 1
802 RTE2
803 TV3
804 TG4
805 RTE News
806 3e
807 Temporary

I also get all the RE Radio chanels nincluding RTE Gold.
have sound on the Radio chanels but nothing on the TV chanels

watty

Maybe it's MPEG2 only as it's Freeview.
I can't find any site claiming it has MPEG4
Read http://www.techtir.ie/blog/cinocat4/no-dtt-get-money-back and http://www.saortv.info/2011/01/05/aso-in-less-than-two-years/

If it doesn't do MPEG4 and MHEG5, and said digital on Box and was bought in Ireland and had no disclaimer saying Analogue Only, then you probably entitled to a refund if bought in last two years. "Freeview disclaimers" probably don't count.

Gerry1995

Most likely watty, I bought it about 3/4 years ago so prob too old. However thanks to all for contributions and I have learned quite a bit on this thread and in other similar, again thanks to all

watty

You need a set-box then.
Or DTT stick on Netbook that has nVidia Ion and HDMI

STB

Gerry1995 wrote: »

STB, It's LG19LS4D, I plugged an aerial in with DVT port selected and told it to scan for channels and it scanned UHF and at CH 54 I get 7 TV and 10 radio channels found as follows:
TV
801 RTE 1
802 RTE2
803 TV3
804 TG4
805 RTE News
806 3e
807 Temporary

I also get all the RE Radio chanels nincluding RTE Gold.
have sound on the Radio chanels but nothing on the TV chanels

Okay well that TV has an MPEG2 tuner rather than an MPEG4 tuner thats why it doesnt display the video picture (and just the audio).

The fact that you are receiving them shows you that you may get away with that aerial you plugged in to the TV.

So all you have to do is get that Ferguson Combo box and plug the aerial in and plug the satellite cable in (that was going to your sky box) and you will have Irish and British stations in one channel list.

Gerry1995

Ok Update, I got the Ferguson Ariva HD Combo box unpacked it plugged it in attached €10 Lidl silvercrest rabbits ears and voila, all the Irish channels, along with BBC and ITV etc FTA chanells.
Many thanks to all for advice.