Sky box in the attic

Chesty08

Hi there,

I have recently build a new house & im at the stage of setting up TV’s.

My goal is to not have any Sky box or dodgy box or any boxes/cables beside tv’s which will be wall mounted.

I’ll have a main room with TV & Data point, Data point in all other rooms incl. playroom & 1 other TV point in our eldest’s room.

What are my options with
1) setting up Sky - can I get a Sky Q box in the attic & then use Sky eye for multi rooms?

2) can I place Amazon Firestick in the attic and control via a eye like Sky?


Any advice on best set up would be great with the main objective being to have no boxes beside tv’s!

Cheers
Chesty

athlone573

Chesty08 wrote: »

Hi there,

I have recently build a new house & im at the stage of setting up TV’s.

My goal is to not have any Sky box or dodgy box or any boxes/cables beside tv’s which will be wall mounted.

I’ll have a main room with TV & Data point, Data point in all other rooms incl. playroom & 1 other TV point in our eldest’s room.

What are my options with
1) setting up Sky - can I get a Sky Q box in the attic & then use Sky eye for multi rooms?

2) can I place Amazon Firestick in the attic and control via a eye like Sky?


Any advice on best set up would be great with the main objective being to have no boxes beside tv’s!

Cheers
Chesty

Is it a bungalo?..

There are limits to how far a Hdmi signal will travel down a cable, 5m springs to mind.
There was a post recently about sky q remotes and apparently they are Bluetooth now so may work through one ceiling but probably not 2.

I know this isn't what you asked but if it was me I would build a box into the stud wall near or behind the TV.

eggy81

Unless you’ve pre wired to the tv points with hdmi cables will you not be sacrificing picture quality on the nice new TVs to avoid seeing a box.

The Cush

Chesty08 wrote: »

What are my options with
1) setting up Sky - can I get a Sky Q box in the attic & then use Sky eye for multi rooms?

My brother uses one of these for a SkyQ box located remotely, converts the HDMI SkyQ output to a DVB-T RF channel over the co-ax cable that can be tuned in as a regular TV channel. IR return via the co-ax using SkyQ IR r/c.

https://www.freetv.ie/hd-to-rf-modulator/
http://www.technomate.com/products/TM%252dRF-HD-IR.html/

Johnboy1951

Chesty08 wrote: »

Hi there,

I have recently build a new house & im at the stage of setting up TV’s.

My goal is to not have any Sky box or dodgy box or any boxes/cables beside tv’s which will be wall mounted.

I’ll have a main room with TV & Data point, Data point in all other rooms incl. playroom & 1 other TV point in our eldest’s room.

What are my options with
1) setting up Sky - can I get a Sky Q box in the attic & then use Sky eye for multi rooms?

2) can I place Amazon Firestick in the attic and control via a eye like Sky?


Any advice on best set up would be great with the main objective being to have no boxes beside tv’s!

Cheers
Chesty

Presumably all those 'data points' are wired back to a specific location ........ is this the attic or do you have a 'media press' in a more accessible location?

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greasepalm

Thinking will picture quality be affected?

athlone573

Neatest solution might be to have the main sky q "boxed in" in the living room then sky mini boxes behind the other tv's. They're only small so they'll fit.

Chesty08

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

Presumably all those 'data points' are wired back to a specific location ........ is this the attic or do you have a 'media press' in a more accessible location?

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All wired back to the attic

Chesty08

It’s a two storey house. I’m not doing a boxed in style built stud partition for the tv to sit in.

It’ll be straight onto the wall & that’s why I want the box hidden

athlone573

Chesty08 wrote: »

It’s a two storey house. I’m not doing a boxed in style built stud partition for the tv to sit in.

It’ll be straight onto the wall & that’s why I want the box hidden

What cables have you running to the "server room" and are you able to run more?

From the sounds of it you'll be running hdmi (direct, or over coax or ethernet) from the attic. That doesn't seem ideal for reliability.

What I was thinking of wasn't a box around the TV, but a hidden alcove in the wall (between the studs) into which you could place the sky box. Then either cover it with plywood and paint over it, or better, site the alcove directly behind the tv and wall bracket. The TV would be flush to the wall.
I haven't seen the size of a sky q box to see if it would work, but it definitely would with a sky mini. Obviously needing to be careful about ventilation. A decent carpenter should be able to wangle something. What do you think?