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Can Saorview and Sky eye travel on the same coaxial in opposite directions?

  • 27-01-2014 4:56pm
    #1
    AlonzoHarris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 82 ✭✭


    At the moment I have 2 Sky Satellite feeds going through my living room wall and into the back of our Sky+ box.
    I have 2 coaxial sockets in the house, 1 in the living room and 1 in the bedroom.
    Both of these coaxial sockets are fed up to the attic and are joined up there.
    I use a Sky magic eye fed into the coaxial socket into the living room (up to the attic and back down to the bedroom) so
    I can control the Sky box from upstairs.

    For testing of saorview , I have disconnected both cables up in in the Attic.
    I connected a UHF aerial to the downstairs coaxial and tuned in Saorview on the downstairs telly.

    Does anyone know if it is possible for me to still use the Sky eye in the bedroom to control the Sky+ box from upstairs with the saorview setup?
    I guess the question is, can a saorview feed come down from the attic to the saorview box in the living room via the coaxial cable, and can Sky red eye somehow go back
    up the same coaxial and somehow get connected to the TV in the bedroom via the 2nd coaxial in the attic, maybe through some sort of splitter system?


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  • #2
    Peter Rhea
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭Peter Rhea


    Best way to handle this would be to combine the Saorview feed with 1 of the satellite feeds & split them again at the Sky box, with the Saorview feed going to RF-in. RF1 then feeds the Saorview signal to the TV at the Sky box & RF2 sends the Saorview & Sky UHF analogue signal back to the attic.

    Of course, this might be awkward with your setup, as the satellite cables probably don't come anywhere near the aerial cable in the attic.


  • #3
    AlonzoHarris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 82 ✭✭AlonzoHarris


    Hi Peter, you should be on commission :-)

    So in my current set-up I am pretty screwed with regards to getting both Saorview and the magic eye working?


  • #4
    Peter Rhea
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭Peter Rhea


    Well, you could try sending the RF output 'up' the aerial cable, using combiners of some kind at either end.

    Also going 'up' would be the DC power for the eye & coming 'down' along with the Saorview signal, the 7 mHz or so remote control signals from the eye. Not sure how well all of this would hang together.


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