Sky- pairing card to box

kc66

What details do I need from the sky box to pair a card to a box. Won't be at the box when calling sky.

norbert64

Just need the Serial Number and your viewing card number usually.
Although, they may well ask for the current epg software version too. :cool:

muffler

I actually did this last week myself - and I mean myself.

I was taking out the multiroom subscription and as I had it in the past all I needed was a viewing card. When I was on the phone to Sky customer care to see about the multiroom the guy told me what to do in order to save me the time and cost of phoning them again.

When the card arrived in the post a coup;e of days later I just followed the instructions he give me. I assume he retained a note of the card number before it was posted out to me.

Marco85

am gettin new install of sky hd+ in tomorrow and two standard sky hd boxes in the bedrooms for multiroom. i have two sky+ boxes already so if i want to put them in the bedrooms insted of the hd boxes so the kids can record and that in a couple of months time do i just ring sky and ask them to pair the viewing card up to the old sky+ boxes. do they do it without a problem or do they grill you on where you got the boxes from????

basill

Shouldn't be any grilling involved. I took out a multiroom subscription about 3 months ago. Got the standard sky box for the 2nd room but wanted an HD box as the house is wired for HDMI over cat 6 and didn't want to be limited with SD. I brought an HD box brand new in its box off adverts for around €100. Plugged it in, inserted viewing card and then pulled up the installers menu which gave me all of the relevant bits and pieces that sky needed. Gave them a call and the very nice lady in the UK got it all up and running while I was on the phone in a matter of minutes.

watty

Sky know if the boxes are still on sub to someone else or reported stolen. They don't care otherwise and are quite happy to pair a box you obtained yourself.

seaniemoylan

if i ring sky to pair my sky viewing card to a new hd box will it still work in the original box,i spend the odd weekend at my mothers house and rather than bringing the box with me and fiddling with wires i wonder can i work both with one subscription.thanks in advance

muffler

seaniemoylan wrote: »

if i ring sky to pair my sky viewing card to a new hd box will it still work in the original box,i spend the odd weekend at my mothers house and rather than bringing the box with me and fiddling with wires i wonder can i work both with one subscription.thanks in advance

Im no expert but I doubt it. I think its one card = 1 box to put it simply.

basill

The card is paired to the box via the unique serial number of the box so you can't use a single card on multiple boxes. Its to stop people from potentially defrauding them. You would need to unplug your box and take it with you. No different to people that can't be without their Corry St and cart the sky box on holidays with them.