how do i set up sky FTA in another room??

eiregal74

I have recently got sky plus installed, i used to have sky FTA, i was told i can now put the FTA box in another room, does anyone know how i can do that and what i will need?


many thanks

Lucy1982

You need a cable from satellite dish to room You want to connect

eiregal74

ive done that lucy, ive reconnected the cable frm the dish to the cable goin to the other room, but still nothing..

Lucy1982

is that ordinary sky box You are using for fta? what message You get up on the screen when You try to to watch ?

eiregal74

its a FTA, im not getting any pic at all on tv, when i turn sky box on the tv goes straight to "av" and screen is black!

12 element

How did you connect up the cables?

Lucy1982

make sure both ends of scart cable are plugged in properly and proper source in choosen on tv

eiregal74

ive checked all that, maybe i need a new skart lead....

nadel302008

connect your coaxcable for the second Box to the main receiver and see if the cable is faulty. We had the same problem on many occasions and the cable was always the cause of it. Good luck;)

12 element

Is there an RF out on the box that you could try?

eiregal74

12 element ive no idea what that means!! is it another outlet?

eiregal74

nadel.. ill give that a go, thanks a million :rolleyes:

12 element

eiregal74 wrote: »

12 element ive no idea what that means!! is it another outlet?

It should look like this:


You can use this to connect the receiver to the television too might help you figure out why the scart isn't working.

eiregal74

hi element, no my sky box dosnt thave that on it im still baffled by all this, ive been up in the attic more times than a little now trying to get to the bottom of this, im ready to peg it out the window at this st:(g:(e, the sky fella said it was very easy to do but obviously im missing somthing somewhere

neilthefunkeone

Where did you get the sat cable from?? did you terminate it yourself? Double check its correctly terminated and F connectors are tight..

I was installing a freesat system a few weeks ago..got dish up and aligned.. cabled into the house only to realize i made a balls of the terminations.. back up onto the roof!!!!:mad:

Cantona's Collars

eiregal74 wrote: »

hi element, no my sky box dosnt thave that on it im still baffled by all this, ive been up in the attic more times than a little now trying to get to the bottom of this, im ready to peg it out the window at this st:(g:(e, the sky fella said it was very easy to do but obviously im missing somthing somewhere

Why are you in the attic?? Connect a cable direct from the dish to the box and that will do the trick-the more joints on the cable the more chance something will go wrong.
F connectors go on each end of the cable-one connects to the lnb on the dish and the other to the dish/lnb input on the back of the box.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUyFv8jdiEI

eiregal74

well i mave moved on frm the blank black screen, i now hav a msg on sdreen sayin i cant recieve a signal and to turn my box off and wait 5 mins and turn bk on again, fingers crossed!!

eiregal74

thanks for that zerks, i was in the attic coz the sky installer fella had undone al the cables so i didnt know which cable went where!!! dont know why he done that coz he put up a second dish on the other side of the house and didnt need to go near that one!! ur guess is as good as mine..

gingernut79

Second dish on the other side of house? Was this guy legit?

eiregal74

hay gingernut, it was a proper sky instaler, its the one they sent out to install my sky plus in the sittingroom... he said it would be better to put up another dish and to run it straight to the box downstairs, when i asked him about putting the fta (tha twas in the sittinroom) upstairs he said all u have to do i connect the cable frm the old dish to the cable goin into my bedroom and that should work straight away, but when i got into the attic there ar 2 cables comming frm the dish and there ar 2 cables going into my bedroom, so im guessing that maybe one og the cables is for the ariel to get the irish channels.. coz i didnt get the irish channels on the fta box.. so thats why im gettin into the attic every 5 mins to reconnecet and connect cables coz i dont know which is which, its like spagetti junction up there..

PyeContinental

eiregal74 wrote: »

i was in the attic coz the sky installer fella had undone al the cables so i didnt know which cable went where!!! dont know why he done that coz he put up a second dish on the other side of the house and didnt need to go near that one!! ur guess is as good as mine..

It sounds a lot like you don't in fact have a cable going directly from this satellite box to the (working) satellite dish.

eiregal74

hi pyecontinental,

no it dosnt do directly frm dish to box, because it was connected to a box downstairs,the cable is in the attic, (im trying to explain this without sounding totally stupid) so the cable frm the dish stops in the attic, which has those screwy connectors on the end, so determing which room i want it to go to i connect the said cable for that room, but im not getting a signal now!!!! its driving me bananas!!!!

12 element

What are you using to join the cables in the attic?
Where the cable comes down into the room you are trying to install the box what sort of connection are you using to connect the wire to the box?

PyeContinental

Sounds like you need to trace the cables that you have in the attic and find out what they're connected to. If you had a "satfinder" tool (available for about a tenner from ebay) you could connect this to each cable you have in the attic and see if you get a reading.

In the end though, it might be quicker if you just get a single length of cable and put in a continuous run from the dish to the room yourself.

eiregal74

12 element.. they ar screwy ones, not the old type.. dont know there name sorry, it has the bare copper wire in the middle, and the two cables ar connected to a F type barrell connector.. if that makes any sense..

eiregal74

hi pyecontinental

Yeah i think ur right but ive no head for heights.. cant get up on my roof id have a heart attack, looks like im gonna have to get an installer in, which i didnt really want to do but im stuck on this one.... im so close but yet sooo far!!

gingernut79

How comes the sky man didnt tune check your telly was working before he left? How did he know he had finished his work? If you paid him already for a working Satellite connection I'd be getting him back pronto!

eiregal74

gingernut, the sky fella inatalled sky plus in the sittinroon for me, and the fta sky that was in the sittinroom i want to move upstairs in my bedroom, so the sky lad done his job really, everything is fine with the sky plus downstairs, im just havin problems with installing the fta sky upstairs.. the sky fella said it wasnt in his job discription to move the fta upstairs for me, even thou i said i would pay him to do it for me, as he said himself its not a big job coz the cables are already there..

12 element

eiregal74 wrote: »

12 element.. they ar screwy ones, not the old type.. dont know there name sorry, it has the bare copper wire in the middle, and the two cables ar connected to a F type barrell connector.. if that makes any sense..

The screwy things you're talking about are called f-connectors. What type of connection are you using to connect to the box? Is the wire just coming out of the wall with an f-connector on the end?

gingernut79

eiregal74 wrote: »

gingernut, the sky fella inatalled sky plus in the sittinroon for me, and the fta sky that was in the sittinroom i want to move upstairs in my bedroom, so the sky lad done his job really, everything is fine with the sky plus downstairs, im just havin problems with installing the fta sky upstairs.. the sky fella said it wasnt in his job discription to move the fta upstairs for me, even thou i said i would pay him to do it for me, as he said himself its not a big job coz the cables are already there..

fair enough so. can you get a telly and the sky box into the attic and a spare / short piece of cable see is it connected from there?

neilthefunkeone

So correct me if im wrong!! You now have 2 dishes on your house..

1. newly installed Sky dish feeding your plus box in sitting room.
2. Old dish (supposedly) feeding your old fta box in bedroom..

Is there a spare LNB port on your new sky dish? Can you run a cable from that to the FTA box in bedroom?
Are you sure the Older dish has not moved therefore disrupting the signal..
Have you checked the FTA box on the newly installed cable in your sitting room to rule out a box issue?(all points to the same satellite)


This thread is even annoying me now!!!:D

PyeContinental

eiregal74 wrote: »

the sky fella inatalled sky plus in the sittinroon for me, and the fta sky that was in the sittinroom i want to move upstairs in my bedroom, so the sky lad done his job really, everything is fine with the sky plus downstairs, im just havin problems with installing the fta sky upstairs.. the sky fella said it wasnt in his job discription to move the fta upstairs for me, even thou i said i would pay him to do it for me, as he said himself its not a big job coz the cables are already there..

I think what he might have done is use the one existing cable you had and reroute that to the new dish. Then, I suspect he only added one new cable run, so that you have two cables going to your new Sky+ box in your sitting room.
This seems all the more likely I think, considering you mentioned that he talked about sticking rigidly to the job specification and no more.

The cable you are looking at in the attic I suspect is unfortunately no longer connected to any satellite dish.