Wiring sky box to under stairs advice re cat 6 cables

Rufus50

Hi All

I would greatly appreciate any advice on this.
I am building at the moment and decided to wire cat 6 cables all around house and plan is to put sky box along with any other platform in uderstairs and connect via the cat 6 cables by using apadters.

For for instance we have 4 cat 6 cables running from under stairs behind walls to back of tv area in open plan. These cat 6 cables are terminated behind a wall plate with rj45 connectors as per image attached.

The reason we did this was to hide any platform boxes and wires. My question now is how do I connect to tv from wall plate and then how do I connect the cat 6 cables to sky box under stairs?

I was told I could get hdmi connectors but not fully sure which etc so any advice would be great.

The plan in other rooms is similar but nothing will go here for a good while.

Cheers for any info

basill

Same as my setup essentially. I have all the sat cables from an octo LNB off the old sky dish coming into their respective boxes under my stairs (not sky but doesn't really matter). DVD, sat box and fire tv and connect via their respective HDMI leads into a receiver. At the outlet from the receiver I connect the HDMI into an HDMI Extender (Gefen are one of the top ones but there are cheaper alternatives). From this HDMI extender (sender unit) my two cat 6 cables (in your case a couple of patch cables to your wall socket outlets) go up through the walls and are terminated behind the tv up on the wall in the lounge. They then connect into the receiver unit and on the other end of that is an HDMI lead into the back of the TV.

tsue921i8wljb3

Rufus50 wrote: »

Hi All

I would greatly appreciate any advice on this.
I am building at the moment and decided to wire cat 6 cables all around house and plan is to put sky box along with any other platform in uderstairs and connect via the cat 6 cables by using apadters.

For for instance we have 4 cat 6 cables running from under stairs behind walls to back of tv area in open plan. These cat 6 cables are terminated behind a wall plate with rj45 connectors as per image attached.

The reason we did this was to hide any platform boxes and wires. My question now is how do I connect to tv from wall plate and then how do I connect the cat 6 cables to sky box under stairs?

I was told I could get hdmi connectors but not fully sure which etc so any advice would be great.

The plan in other rooms is similar but nothing will go here for a good while.

Cheers for any info

This was discussed here recently. These posts give an idea of what you may be looking for

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=109393896&postcount=14
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=109398254&postcount=15

I have no experience of using such devices so cannot comment on their quality or ease of use.

raddo

I am using a HDMI extender, info in the following post.
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=105915724&postcount=8

paulhardman

raddo wrote: »

I am using a HDMI extender, info in the following post.
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=105915724&postcount=8

I have also used HDMI over cat 6 adapters, both at home and at work. These ones in work were purchased most recently:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00YC3BWL2

I've also used a lot of Neet Cables gear at home, HDMI splitters etc, can highly recommend

spaceHopper

I use one from Labgear, it's Power of Cable so only need one plug you'll run out of sockets at the TV end !

Johnboy1951

Rufus50 wrote: »

Hi All

I would greatly appreciate any advice on this.
I am building at the moment and decided to wire cat 6 cables all around house and plan is to put sky box along with any other platform in uderstairs and connect via the cat 6 cables by using apadters.

For for instance we have 4 cat 6 cables running from under stairs behind walls to back of tv area in open plan. These cat 6 cables are terminated behind a wall plate with rj45 connectors as per image attached.

The reason we did this was to hide any platform boxes and wires. My question now is how do I connect to tv from wall plate and then how do I connect the cat 6 cables to sky box under stairs?

I was told I could get hdmi connectors but not fully sure which etc so any advice would be great.

The plan in other rooms is similar but nothing will go here for a good while.

Cheers for any info

I have terrestrial tuner box, Sat>IP tuner box and Sky HD box in a media press, with one small media server device running tvheadend managing the tuners.
The Sky box HDMI out is fed to a HDMI>DVB-T converter and added to the coax for terrestrial tuners.
Everything is made available over LAN for any device that can use the signals.
In my case that is anything that can run Kodi.
So all Satellite and Terrestrial channels, plus the Sky HD box output are selectable by the small device at each TV.
All mobile devices that can run Kodi can also access all the content whether wired or wireless.

I doubt this is what you had in mind but it might give you some ideas.