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Sky multiroom

  • 15-12-2014 11:45am
    #1
    bm69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42 ✭


    I have a HD sky box in sitting room and want to view it in my bedroom also without the bill. I have heard suggestions on digi senders or running cables etc etc.
    My sitting room and bedroom are wired for coaxial. My question is could a signal be sent into the sitting room coax and be picked up by the TV plugged into the coax in the bedroom.
    I realize both the bedroom and sitting room TV will have to be watching the same thing. This is not an issue for me.

    Thanks


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  • #2
    Thurston?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,278 ✭✭✭Thurston?


    bm69 wrote: »
    I have a HD sky box in sitting room and want to view it in my bedroom also without the bill...

    My sitting room and bedroom are wired for coaxial. My question is could a signal be sent into the sitting room coax and be picked up by the TV plugged into the coax in the bedroom.

    Could be done, provided the cables are joined up, of course.

    If your Sky box is 1 of the newer types that don't have RF sockets, you will need something to restore this functionality: either the 'official' I/O link, or something like the Triax Tri-Link. (Tri-Link will work with other equipment, besides Sky box.)


  • #3
    bm69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42 ✭bm69


    Thurston? wrote: »
    Could be done, provided the cables are joined up, of course.

    If your Sky box is 1 of the newer types that don't have RF sockets, you will need something to restore this functionality: either the 'official' I/O link, or something like the Triax Tri-Link. (Tri-Link will work with other equipment, besides Sky box.)

    So if it has an RF out I just plug the out into the wall. Then plug the bedroom tv in and tune in the sky box?


  • #4
    winston_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,688 ✭✭✭winston_1


    bm69 wrote: »
    So if it has an RF out I just plug the out into the wall. Then plug the bedroom tv in and tune in the sky box?

    Not quite. I guess the 2 rooms are fed from the same aerial. Plugging the RF out will cause the aerial to radiate but the signal won't pass to the other room. You need a direct coax from onevroom to the other with nothing else connected to it.


  • #5
    Thurston?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,278 ✭✭✭Thurston?


    bm69 wrote: »
    So if it has an RF out I just plug the out into the wall. Then plug the bedroom tv in and tune in the sky box?

    As I already mentioned, you'll have to connect the coaxial cable serving the main TV point, to that serving the bedroom TV point.

    I should have asked if they are actually already in use for an aerial.


  • #6
    bm69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42 ✭bm69


    Thurston? wrote: »
    As I already mentioned, you'll have to connect the coaxial cable serving the main TV point, to that serving the bedroom TV point.

    I should have asked if they are actually already in use for an aerial.

    No not currently used. I have sky only in the sitting room.
    I am confused when u say serving the main tv point.


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  • #7
    Thurston?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,278 ✭✭✭Thurston?


    Main TV point is the aerial socket where the Sky box is. Plug the Sky box RF2 into that.

    Then (obviously) the cable from this point has to be joined up with the cable going to the bedroom TV point, to effectively form a single cable between both points.


  • #8
    AMKC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,849 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    Just get yourself a signal sender and save yourself a whole lot of hassle. Thats what I use. Or you could get a red eye sender but they are quite expensive a signal sender is cheaper and you can still use your remote and all your sky+ features in the 2nd room.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • #9
    Thurston?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,278 ✭✭✭Thurston?


    AMKC wrote: »
    Just get yourself a signal sender and save yourself a whole lot of hassle. Thats what I use. Or you could get a red eye sender but they are quite expensive a signal sender is cheaper and you can still use your remote and all your sky+ features in the 2nd room.

    You mean a wireless video sender? How is the wired connection 'a whole lot of hassle' if the cables are already installed?

    The 'red eye' is just an IR sensor & sender unit to send the remote control signal back to the Sky box RF2. Probably costs about a tenner. Maybe you're thinking of the I/O link modulator/9V PSU device that's needed with newer Sky boxes that don't have RF-in/outs?


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