Satellite and receiver question?

John mac

rurs wrote: »

I think 3E is on Sky? Channel 105

not if you have'nt got a sub.

teednab-el

zg3409 wrote: »

No simple solution if you want 3E and record etc.

3E may, and I emphasis may be on SaorSAT in the future making recording easier.

There is also a hack which will allow a Sky card to work in a Ferguson Combo box but it's probably illegal.

Even with all above, it won't be a slick as a Sky+ etc. If you are in no panic wait until September/October. There may be better boxes available by then. In theory Sky could add 3E, RTE new now etc, but it is very unlikely.

Only way I think I can do it is leave the triax box where it is and install the sky box next to it. A quad feed lnb will have to be installed. At the moment that tv in the main living room has only one hdmi connection. I got a dual slot hdmi adapter for plugging both my dvd player and triax box into it. Only one can work at a time unlike more modern tvs where you have 3 or 4 hdmi connections and for example if you have a playstation working on hdmi1 slot, you can have the xbox working on hdmi2 slot and multimedia player on hdmi3 and can switch between them with your remote like my tv upstairs. I know I can link triax box up by scart plug but it wont be as good as hdmi.

I dont know if my triax box and sky box will work on a hdmi adapter? If you switch something on and its connected up with this adapter, it will start up automatically.For example if the triax box is using hdmi and I switch on the dvd player the dvd will start up and play and vice a versa.

Maybe there is something out there for this?

I just dont know. Technology is a pain.

If you know of any solutions let me know.

teednab-el

Just figured out that there was a small switch on the adapter that allows me to switch between connections. Therefore I can hook up my sky HD box and free to air box to it. It will be a nuisance though getting up and switching the adapter switch.

I found this on link below that should solve my problem, it has a remote and all.


http://www.cabling4less.co.uk/products/933/3_port_auto_hdmi_switch_with_remote/

teednab-el

Hey I have sky got for the house I'm living in but I am waiting for engineer to install it Friday. Looking for a bit of advice, I have a dish already installed with a single feed down to a free to air triax combo box. I am going to keep triax box in the living room along with the sky box for the saorview channels and it gives me another alternative for recording if sky box is recording already.

However I have a question in relation to the LNB, what should I do as I have another tv in another room and I am hoping to purchase a good free to air box or unsub sky box off ebay and my question is, how will I manage when there will be only a single feed remaining if a quad lnb is installed, sky box in living room needs two feeds, triax box will use one feed and I will have one feed remaining. The good FTA boxes need two feeds otherwise recording will be limited.

Any advice on instructing the engineer what to do? And should I bring in the 4 feeds through the same point of the wall of house, i.e. behind tv stand in living room, like where the triax box is located?

Thanks

STB

You are letting him use the existing dish you have installed ?

Is it because you dont want 2 dishes ?

This is a step up from the Quad, its an Octo - 8 outputs.
http://www.tvtrade.ie/octo-lnb.html

teednab-el

STB wrote: »

You are letting him use the existing dish you have installed ?

Is it because you dont want 2 dishes ?

This is a step up from the Quad, its an Octo - 8 outputs.
http://www.tvtrade.ie/octo-lnb.html

Ok the installer came today while i wasn't around I was at work and he installed sky, a friend of mine was there with the engineer, I was told Friday the engineer would be coming, anyway he installed sky but only brought down two wires for sky box, and nothing else. I'm fed up of the whole thing. I told him to come Friday while I was off from work and he comes today. No triax box connected to dish now. Any way out of this?

STB

teednab-el wrote: »

Ok the installer came today while i wasn't around I was at work and he installed sky, a friend of mine was there with the engineer, I was told Friday the engineer would be coming, anyway he installed sky but only brought down two wires for sky box, and nothing else. I'm fed up of the whole thing. I told him to come Friday while I was off from work and he comes today. No triax box connected to dish now. Any way out of this?

He used your dish, disconnected the single lnb, connected a quad lnb, left your single cable going to the triax disconnected ?

Have I got this right ????

B*llock him out of it would come to mind if that is the case.

teednab-el

STB wrote: »

teednab-el wrote: »

Ok the installer came today while i wasn't around I was at work and he installed sky, a friend of mine was there with the engineer, I was told Friday the engineer would be coming, anyway he installed sky but only brought down two wires for sky box, and nothing else. I'm fed up of the whole thing. I told him to come Friday while I was off from work and he comes today. No triax box connected to dish now. Any way out of this?

He used your dish, disconnected the single lnb, connected a quad lnb, left your single cable going to the triax disconnected ?

Have I got this right ????

B*llock him out of it would come to mind if that is the case.

Yes exactly what he did, I can't Fe*king believe it, he used my single feed going from the triax box and connected it to sky box and then he brought down another feed from the dish instead. I can't understand why he didn't bring two wires down and leave the triax wire alone. He didn't need to install a dish either,but in fairness though the dish I have is only 3 months old.

teednab-el

teednab-el wrote: »

STB wrote: »

teednab-el wrote: »

Ok the installer came today while i wasn't around I was at work and he installed sky, a friend of mine was there with the engineer, I was told Friday the engineer would be coming, anywayi he installed sky but only brought down two wires for sky box, and nothing else. I'm fed up of the whole thing. I told him to come Friday while I was off from work and he comes today. No triax box connected to dish now. Any way out of this?

He used your dish, disconnected the single lnb, connected a quad lnb, left your single cable going to the triax disconnected ?

Have I got this right ????

B*llock him out of it would come to mind if that is the case.

Yes exactly what he did, I can't Fe*king believe it, he used my single feed going from the triax box and connected it to sky box and then he brought down another feed from the dish instead. I can't understand why he didn't bring two wires down and leave the triax wire alone. He didn't need to install a dish either, in fairness though the fish I have is only 3 months old.

Would I get full access to channels on FTA box if I used a splitter but switch sky box off each time I want to watch channels like ITV 1 2,3,4, Channel 5, 5 USA, 5* etc. on FTA box? That's all I want to watch in FTA box.

teednab-el

teednab-el wrote: »

teednab-el wrote: »

STB wrote: »

teednab-el wrote: »

Ok the installer came today while i wasn't around I was at work and he installed sky, a friend of mine was there with the engineer, I was told Friday the engineer would be coming, anywayi he installed sky but only brought down two wires for sky box, and nothing else. I'm fed up of the whole thing. I told him to come Friday while I was off from work and he comes today. No triax box connected to dish now. Any way out of this?

He used your dish, disconnected the single lnb, connected a quad lnb, left your single cable going to the triax disconnected ?

Have I got this right ????

B*llock him out of it would come to mind if that is the case.

Yes exactly what he did, I can't Fe*king believe it, he used my single feed going from the triax box and connected it to sky box and then he brought down another feed from the dish instead. I can't understand why he didn't bring two wires down and leave the triax wire alone. He didn't need to install a dish either, in fairness though the fish I have is only 3 months old.

Would I get full access to channels on FTA box if I used a splitter but switch sky box off each time I want to watch channels like ITV 1 2,3,4, Channel 5, 5 USA, 5* etc. on FTA box? That's all I want to watch in FTA box.

Wasn't aware that I could manually tune into the skybox the channels mentioned above. How stupid do I look now. Sorted now though, I won't need the triax box now for satellite FTA channels. I will just use it for saorview and for recording saorview channels. It's EPG for satellite channels was terrible anyway never displayed the info of programmes and for that I don't ever want to use it again.

teednab-el

teednab-el wrote: »

Wasn't aware that I could manually tune into the skybox the channels mentioned above. How stupid do I look now. Sorted now though, I won't need the triax box now for satellite FTA channels. I will just use it for saorview and for recording saorview channels. It's EPG for satellite channels was terrible anyway never displayed the info of programmes and for that I don't ever want to use it again.

Is there anyway of saving added channels to Sky s default channel list?

Liameter

No, "Add channels" was a legal obligation but there's no obligation to make it user-friendly!

rurs

teednab-el wrote: »

Is there anyway of saving added channels to Sky s default channel list?

Set up a favourites list.

Liameter

No way. "Other Channels" don't appear in the EPG so there's no way to add them to favourites. Like I already stated, it's not user-friendly and was never intended to be. It's the bare minimum required to comply.

teednab-el

Liameter wrote: »

No way. "Other Channels" don't appear in the EPG so there's no way to add them to favourites. Like I already stated, it's not user-friendly and was never intended to be. It's the bare minimum required to comply.

Should keep my old FTA box for these channels.

darkhorse

Hi Everyone,
I was thinking of getting a fta box to try and get a few more channels. A friend of mine has a silver crest, only problem is, he cant get the irish channels, so thats one elimated. Can anyone recommend a box that might give me irish channels as well as uk ones.
John

dharn

you dont need any box to get the irish channes just aerial for saorview enabled tv, or combo box like ariva 120 for older telly and freesat channels

darkhorse

Hi Dharn,
Thank you for your recommendation. I appreciate your replying to my post.
John

teednab-el

How can I loopthrough a skybox to a triax hd537 box so that I can pick up the fta channels that sky dont store on their default list like channel 5 all the Itvs?

What connections do I need?

Thanks in advance.

zg3409

teednab-el wrote: »

How can I loopthrough a skybox to a triax hd537 box so that I can pick up the fta channels that sky dont store on their default list like channel 5 all the Itvs?

What connections do I need?

Thanks in advance.

You need a seperate cable to the DISH. Loopthrough will not work. Only 1/4 of the channels will work that way. There is no point doing it that way.

Ronnie Raygun

teednab-el wrote: »

How can I loopthrough a skybox to a triax hd537 box so that I can pick up the fta channels that sky dont store on their default list like channel 5 all the Itvs?

There's no lnb out on a Sky box. It was explained to you a number of times how you could try looping from the Triax box to one of the Sky box tuners & see how you got on with that, but it seems you either don't understand or can't be bothered.

teednab-el

Ronnie Raygun wrote: »

teednab-el wrote: »

How can I loopthrough a skybox to a triax hd537 box so that I can pick up the fta channels that sky dont store on their default list like channel 5 all the Itvs?

There's no lnb out on a Sky box. It was explained to you a number of times how you could try looping from the Triax box to one of the Sky box tuners & see how you got on with that, but it seems you either don't understand or can't be bothered.

No this was the first post mentioned here in which a SKY BOX had no lnb output and I know that anyway because I checked beforehand and its not there. Ok if I want to loop triax to sky box tuner how do I do it? Jesus talk about having a bad hair day.

teednab-el

zg3409 wrote: »

teednab-el wrote: »

How can I loopthrough a skybox to a triax hd537 box so that I can pick up the fta channels that sky dont store on their default list like channel 5 all the Itvs?

What connections do I need?

Thanks in advance.

You need a seperate cable to the DISH. Loopthrough will not work. Only 1/4 of the channels will work that way. There is no point doing it that way.

Correct me if I'm wrong but the way you are describing wouldnt work if I power sky box and triax box on simultaneously, but it should work if I power sky box off shouldn't it? One receiver powered off then the other receiver would have full access to lnb?

Peter Rhea

The outputs of an lnb work independently. If each tuner has its own unshared connection to an lnb with switchable feeds (i.e. not a quattro), it will be able to access both bands & polarities (all channels in other words).

In this case it doesn't matter which receiver is powered on or off.

darkhorse

Hi Everyone,

I am just getting back with an update, having last been here on the 7th March. What I did was buy an fta receiver for the sitting room and one for the dining room. All in all, I have fewer channels than what I had with my satellite provider, but still have plenty and good reception on all of them.
But best of all, I am no longer burdened with a monthly subscription, which is a plus in the present climate of cuts and austerity. Anyway, its one bill that I dont have to contend with anymore.
John:):)

Ronnie Raygun

jbyrne10 wrote: »

... What I did was buy an fta receiver for the sitting room and one for the dining room. All in all, I have fewer channels than what I had with my satellite provider

Who was that? Where did the Sky boxes go? :eek:

darkhorse

Ronnie Raygun wrote: »

Who was that? Where did the Sky boxes go? :eek:

What sky boxes are you talking about, Ronnie.
John