Free BT Sports and Eir Sports

Lucious Sweet · 12-07-2016 08:52AM

Calvatron wrote: »

Yes. BBC, ITV, C4. Those channels. They can be accessed with the Irish card inserted? Will they still be in HD?

Bbc 1 & 2 are HD. You'll have to add the rest in add channels. Frequencies here
http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2055520627/1/#post99545123

_Kaiser_ · 12-07-2016 11:52AM

Calvatron wrote: »

Yes. BBC, ITV, C4. Those channels. They can be accessed with the Irish card inserted? Will they still be in HD?

If you mean will BBC, ITV etc still show on the EPG on 101-105 etc then no.

You can add them manually though through "other channels" as above.

ronanc1000 · 12-07-2016 01:22PM

GY A1 wrote: »

No you don't have to be a sky subscriber to get eir/setanta.
Setanta have sent out cards to people.

I was talking to an Eir agent via live chat and they said I would need to contact Sky to be issued a card. I even quoted the number for them (setanta/eir).

Can anyone verify that this works please, would appreciate the help.

I have a sky box, its set for FTA channels. No viewing card.

If I ring them on 0818 20 30 40 will they send me out a viewing card given the above situation and that I am not a sky customer.

GY A1 · 12-07-2016 01:25PM

Why not ring that setanta number and tell them what u need
It's useless without the card.

ronanc1000 wrote: »

I was talking to an Eir agent via live chat and they said I would need to contact Sky to be issued a card. I even quoted the number for them (setanta/eir).

Can anyone verify that this works please, would appreciate the help.

I have a sky box, its set for FTA channels. No viewing card.

If I ring them on 0818 20 30 40 will they send me out a viewing card given the above situation and that I am not a sky customer.

Lucious Sweet · 12-07-2016 01:26PM

ronanc1000 wrote: »

I was talking to an Eir agent via live chat and they said I would need to contact Sky to be issued a card. I even quoted the number for them (setanta/eir).

Can anyone verify that this works please, would appreciate the help.

I have a sky box, its set for FTA channels. No viewing card.

If I ring them on 0818 20 30 40 will they send me out a viewing card given the above situation and that I am not a sky customer.

Why don't you just call the number?

ronanc1000 · 12-07-2016 01:30PM

GY A1 wrote: »

Why not ring that setanta number and tell them what u need
It's useless without the card.

Have you gone this route? It just sounds odd that Eir/setanta have sky's viewing card to issue out thats all. I am with 48, and for some reason it won't put the call through since isn't included in their membership monthly bundles, hence why I went the Live Chat route..

Hogey007 · 12-07-2016 01:41PM

sorry if this has already been asked, but has anyone else had difficulty logging into the eir sport or watch online part?

It's activated on sky but when I try log in on my tablet or online (internet explorer) it tells me either my e-mail or password is wrong (it's not, and I've checked case sensitive and even reset my password), it lets me log into my eir fine but when I try to log in to watch online or through app it says its wrong, spoke to a agent on chat and he hadn't a clue, just doing his best do get rid of me and it the end sent me a link to re-register which was no help whatsoever as I'm already registered. anyone else have this or have an suggestions?

rogieop · 12-07-2016 01:43PM

The online agents are beyond useless.

I currently have sky broadband and tv with the variety pack and pay 25 for setanta. so €105 all in for the month.

If i cancel everything with sky, sign up to eir for just the broadband will i still be able to use my sky box for the free channels as well as the sports package?

_Kaiser_ · 12-07-2016 01:44PM

rogieop wrote: »

The online agents are beyond useless.

I currently have sky broadband and tv with the variety pack and pay 25 for setanta. so €105 all in for the month.

If i cancel everything with sky, sign up to eir for just the broadband will i still be able to use my sky box for the free channels as well as the sports package?

Yes.. however you will lose the ability to pause/record without a Sky sub and anything you have saved in your planner won't work anymore either

rogieop · 12-07-2016 01:53PM

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Yes.. however you will lose the ability to pause/record without a Sky sub and anything you have saved in your planner won't work anymore either

Yeah i thought as much. Ive looked through the variety package and literally the only channel i watch on it is Sky Atlantic.

Seems like a no brainer to me.. cuting from €105 to €45.

And probably increasing my broadband speeds at the same time...

ronanc1000 · 12-07-2016 01:55PM

Lucious Sweet wrote: »

Why don't you just call the number?

My network (48) wont allow it. lol

Has this route worked for you? Asking Eir to send you a sky viewing card??

Doodah7 · 12-07-2016 03:12PM

ronanc1000 wrote: »

My network (48) wont allow it. lol

Has this route worked for you? Asking Eir to send you a sky viewing card??

There was a non-0818 number for Setanta/eir quoted earlier in the thread.

Thegalwayman · 12-07-2016 04:50PM

Has it been established that there isn't a new 12mth contract by adding Eir sport to the sky box?

_Kaiser_ · 12-07-2016 06:24PM

Thegalwayman wrote: »

Has it been established that there isn't a new 12mth contract by adding Eir sport to the sky box?

Several people posted extracts of conversations with Eir chat agents a few pages back which suggest there isn't

My contract start date on My Eir continues to show as April 2015 anyway

ronanc1000 · 12-07-2016 09:05PM

Can anyone confirm since the Eir Sports takeover that they are and have issued sky viewing cards to those eligible for Eir Sport? Those of us who have sky boxes that are set to free to air and don't have the viewing card but require one to unlock the Eir Sports pack...

GY A1 · 12-07-2016 09:53PM

call them tomoro and explain your situation,
dont ask wont get,
you'd have them rang the amount times asked here now

ronanc1000 wrote: »

Have you gone this route? It just sounds odd that Eir/setanta have sky's viewing card to issue out thats all. I am with 48, and for some reason it won't put the call through since isn't included in their membership monthly bundles, hence why I went the Live Chat route..

casio4 · 12-07-2016 10:06PM

I have freesat an Ariva box even if I wanted the channels how do you get them?

ronanc1000 · 12-07-2016 10:07PM

GY A1 wrote: »

call them tomoro and explain your situation,
dont ask wont get,
you'd have them rang the amount times asked here now

I just never heard of them doing this before. Also their Live chat agent didn't entertain me when asked. So if I ask them do you issue viewing cards to those of us who want to watch BT etc through our sky box. That a fine way to ask them? Have you experience of doing this? Could not find anything like it online tbh.

Quackster · 13-07-2016 12:06AM

ronanc1000 wrote: »

I just never heard of them doing this before. Also their Live chat agent didn't entertain me when asked. So if I ask them do you issue viewing cards to those of us who want to watch BT etc through our sky box. That a fine way to ask them? Have you experience of doing this? Could not find anything like it online tbh.

Setanta issued Sky cards to non-Sky customers who subscribed to their service via satellite so best contacting Eir Sport.

Kristopherus · 13-07-2016 10:32AM

casio4 wrote: »

I have freesat an Ariva box even if I wanted the channels how do you get them?

You have to have a Sky HD box. Will not work in FTA boxes.

Markeymarks · 13-07-2016 12:12PM

Here's one for ya. I have eir broadband and sky tv package.. Logged into my eir account, entered my sky card number, signed up no problem,, as my father also has sky TV and no eir broadband I signed him up for it also, using his sky card number and my eir account number thinking it wouldn't work, but alas, we both have eir sports package. Is this an oversight or will one of us be getting a charge at the end of the month?? Any ideas

brian_gall85 · 13-07-2016 06:03PM

Don't think you'll be charged anything extra for the second card.

You're lucky you were able to register them I've been trying for the past two days and get nothing but error messages....can't say I'm surprised given Error eir are involved! Awful technical support as always. Seems to be a case of we'll ignore it and the problem will go away running through that entire company. Quite ironic that a communications company have some of the worst channels for communicating with them in the country.

Masala · 13-07-2016 06:08PM

My Son has Sky Go on his Xbox and therefore can access My Sky Sports through the Xbox. Will he also see these new channels through Sky Go??

brian_gall85 · 13-07-2016 06:15PM

As BT Sports were never available via Sky Go (as far as I'm aware) then I can't see him being able to access them.

william · 13-07-2016 09:36PM

Would there be any way to get Eir Sports on an Amazon Fire Tv box?

shmeee · 15-07-2016 03:10PM

Signed up for this in the home house there a few minutes ago. Just entered the sky card number and the channels are active already, full HD and they havnt got the Sky HD sub which is a nice touch.

No problems, they have eircom regular dsl broadband and not efibre by the way also.

Del007 · 15-07-2016 03:15PM

I was just onto Eir chat and apparently you can only have 2 sky boxes on the one account

shmeee · 15-07-2016 03:26PM

Del007 wrote: »

I was just onto Eir chat and apparently you can only have 2 sky boxes on the one account

Is the second box free?

Del007 · 15-07-2016 03:35PM

shmeee wrote: »

Is the second box free?

Yes second box is free, I asked them. But if you have already registered then you'll have to call them to add a second box. It's not allowing me to do it online

givecredit · 15-07-2016 03:50PM

william wrote: »

Would there be any way to get Eir Sports on an Amazon Fire Tv box?

You probably can sideload the app. You will also probable need to connect a mouse type remote.

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