Wiring up the extension before the plasterers come in at teh moment.
see http://www.thedigiboxshop.com/sky-plus-distribution-wired-sky-plus-remote-rev8-and-sky-tv-link.html
I'm running cable into new extension at the moment before plasterers come NEXT WEEK and I'm totally confused.
I run a coax cable to other room (satellite coax apprently is best)
DO I need to run another coax for the "magic eye" or does it go on the other coax?
AAAAAAAAAAgh!
Hope that makes sense
the Sky eye goes between the aerial lead and the TV set, inline
Is this right please.
So I run ONE coax wire from sky+ box & main TV location to room with other tv (TV2). The eye goes in room with TV2. link coax to eye to TV2's RF in.
The addiitonal remote control sits with TV2 and is beamed down the coax.
At the sky+ end the coax simply plugs into RF2.
AND if I want to run 2 a second room, do I repeat this, but I need a 2 way splitter by the sky+ box to allow a second input to RF2. The splitter is shown at
AND if I want a 3rd or 4th room I buy a 4 way splitter instead of 2 way splitter.
AND what channel do I select on TV2? I've got used to SCARTs these days
sorry to be a pain.
If you want to feed pictures to more than one extra room you need the amplifier as in your link. They also do a 4, 6 and 8 way one. You will need to tune your tvs in the other rooms to an rf channel.
You will need to turn the 9v power on in your sky box to work your magic eye, it should tell you how to do it with the eye instructions.
That sounds good. I assume all new tellys will have an RF in for the forseeable future. I suppose that's where the digital signal from the roof must go in.
Yet again a great reply from STW Forum. Many thanks.
I am flying by the seat of my pants on this one.
Just did this ~6 weeks ago, loads of brownie points with the missus.
To turn the 9v thing on you have to go into services menu and type "01" enter in.
This will bring up the installers hidden menu, 2nd option down or so was to switch it on for me. Note, you might have to change the coax port at the back of the sky box over, as only one is a 9v.
My set up is as follows:
dish to sky box.
sky box up the 9v line to the loft to an amp.
4way amplifier to each tv aerial coax.
coax from wall socket to eye.
eye to TV/dvd input, moving the IR eye to where the remote can pick it up easily.
If I connect the rooftop terrestrial aerial to the rear of the sky+ box also, will I be able to flick between digital channels on any of the tvs on the network (using the normal tv control in the normal manner as if it were connected to the rooftop aerial)?
This would mean there could be sky+ on some tvs (whichever channel was selected) and other tvs could chose a terrestrial channel if they wanted. I think thats what it says at the bottom of this page here
it says
[i]"What would you like to say?
i have sky plus in living room i would like to send sky tv to 4 other rooms using a amplifier and be able to change channels with the eye on top of television in each room i know i will only be able to see the same channel in each room and also i do have a tv link in 1 other room but when i turn sky on in second room normal tv signal overpowers sky signal it is pain in the butt changing aerial wire also if i do have sky in 4 other rooms and tv aerial in same rooms is there a product to overcome this problem when sky wire and aerial wire are joined to one box and one wire comes from box to back of television thank you
What we said...
To be honest in an ideal world you would run the aerial input in to your Sky Digibox first then run the Sky and TV signal in one cable from the Sky box to a splitter amplifier, then to the various locations in your home with a TV Link wherever you want control."[/i]
Sorry to remain out of my depth a bit on this subject.
I'm not entirely sure that RF2 does loop through the off-air channels
The easiest way to double check would be to temporarily feed your main TV from it & check to see that the signal is getting through
Good idea.