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Moving Sky viewing card around house

  • 15-07-2014 11:09pm
    #1
    Nelbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    About to have sky installed, getting a HD+ box and a non recording multi room box. However a friend has offered me his old sky+HD box and it's got me thinking....

    Could I pair the two cards to the HD+ boxes but use one intermittently on the multi room box in the bedroom?

    Even if it just gave us the variety pack and / or non HD channels in the bedroom that would be fine, would just be a good option for us and save the hassle of sky eye or the expense of a second multi room for a box we'd likely only use for the non sport channels anyway.

    In simple terms 2 viewing cards with 3 boxes.... Possible? (I expect some limitations somewhere)


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  • #2
    DarkerDai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 ✭DarkerDai


    Hi Nelbert,

    You can pair the card up to the box you got from your friend provided:
    1) It is not the only box on an active subscription.
    2) You contact Sky with your friend beside you with his account details.

    They can then swap the boxes. The card can only be paired to one box at a time. The other box will only show certain channels provided you have a cable from the dish running into it. If you want to know the channels available, you can take the card out (normally free view channels). You will pay for one box (the original sub) and one multiroom (the second card). You won't pay for the one without the card. You cannot swap the cards around freely without pairing the card every time (either by calling Sky or going to Sky.com).

    The engineer may add a second cable for the second +HD box(you need two feeds to record one programme and watch another). However, he may not run a feed for the third box.

    Hope this helps.


  • #3
    Nelbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭Nelbert


    DarkerDai wrote: »
    Hi Nelbert,

    You can pair the card up to the box you got from your friend provided:
    1) It is not the only box on an active subscription.
    2) You contact Sky with your friend beside you with his account details.

    They can then swap the boxes. The card can only be paired to one box at a time. The other box will only show certain channels provided you have a cable from the dish running into it. If you want to know the channels available, you can take the card out (normally free view channels). You will pay for one box (the original sub) and one multiroom (the second card). You won't pay for the one without the card. You cannot swap the cards around freely without pairing the card every time (either by calling Sky or going to Sky.com).

    The engineer may add a second cable for the second +HD box(you need two feeds to record one programme and watch another). However, he may not run a feed for the third box.

    Hope this helps.

    Cool. Impression I get is that all the normal channels i.e. non premium sport and possibly HD will work fine (read sky and digital spy forums after a google search) without pairing the card which would be all that I'm really looking for.

    He won't have to put up a dish which will obviously save some time and the third room is directly above the second room so all going well he'll pull the double / shotgun cable and just split it at the external wall to feed the two rooms. Hopefully he's in a good mood and I may even flag it to him if/when he calls in advance of the install.


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