Sky plus box non Hd

I have an old Sky Plus box (SD) and was wondering if it will record in a room where there is only one satellite feed cable. Not bothered about watching another channel whilst recording,just the channel on screen.

swoofer

Unless you have a valid card in the box the recording feature will be disabled. If you have a valid card report back.

swoofer

swoofer wrote: »

Unless you have a valid card in the box the recording feature will be disabled. If you have a valid card report back.

I tried my sub card and it worked but my recordable blue card won't. It stopped working on my HD box after the latest software upgrade.

swoofer

I thought it was only the hd box that got a software update. I was under the impression the old sd boxes were left on old software. I dont have the old sd + box anymore.

If you use the valid card do this

"All you need to do is connect the single cable to input 1 and set a manual recording on a channel you never watch lasting 24 hours repeated daily which will always fail but take virtually zero hard disk space. Delete these failed recordings when the next dummy starts.

This works because input 1 is the channel normally used for viewing (from switch on with nothing recording) and input 2 is normally used for the first scheduled recording. If an input is already in use the box will automatically switch to the other input for whatever it wants to do. Because the dummy manual recording is already telling the box that it is already using input 2, anything else will happen on input 1. With this setup you can do any one of three things
1 Watch one channel.
2 Record one channel (either timed via Planner or by pressing Record whilst viewing).
3 Record one channel and watch a previous recording."

this is very old but may still work!

mackersdublin

Either way you need 2 feeds going into a Sky+ box

mackersdublin

mackersdublin wrote: »

Either way you need 2 feeds going into a Sky+ box

I want to set it up in another room where there is only one cable. It records when I put my white sub card in it but my fta recordable card won't work in it.
I wonder do they go dormant if not used for s while . Will leave it in and check it in 24 hours!

swoofer

read again. it says use one cable!!

I dont think the blue card trick ever worked in a non hd box. What happened was, sky did not turn off the recordable feature on the blue cards when they changed to the white ones.

muffler

zorro2566 wrote: »

I want to set it up in another room where there is only one cable. It records when I put my white sub card in it but my fta recordable card won't work in it.
I wonder do they go dormant if not used for s while . Will leave it in and check it in 24 hours!

Im sorta lost here. Are you saying that you can swap your sub card between 2 different boxes?

swoofer

What you can do is swop a card that does not have the premium channels ie sports and movies, and it will work in any box. But I never had such a card so could never test it. And I dont think this will work with the HD boxes or ever worked with HD boxes.