does anyone know how to get sky in other rooms apart from buying multiroom

im sure you can buy some kind of digital receiver but you have to watch the same as what is on in the main room.

cheers for your help

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You could use a "magic eye" - I think they are on amazon, transmits from your main box to another room - can only watch what is on the main box but can use the remote in another room as well, so ok if you don't want to be able to have different channels on at same time.

 

maplin is your answer... they have quite a few ways... and they will explain them to you... magic eye is one... AV sender is another off top of my head... but like 1st reply you only get to watch same channel as whats on the main box

 

cheers thats what i was after - presumably I could just use an AV channel in the upstairs TV as I dont have a house aerial. ta

 

Buy one of those arial splitter things....

and rather than putting you tv arial into it and then running of the 4 ports, run from back of sky (out) into this, and then use the 4 ports to put into other rooms, although you are limited then to watching the same channel. Then stick the magic eye at each end of the 4 ports, and at least you can control the sky from each room....



Job Done

 

ive not got an outside aerial mate would that have an effect? presume it would?

 

not really....

http://www.skytvcard.com/backskyplusn.JPG

see above...

when you run off the back of your skybox to another room it uses UHF Out or something, can't remember what exactly, but still uses the co-axial cable...


so all you need to do is run from the "out" connector using a normal co-axial cable, into the thing below, then run up to 4 cables out of that into other TV's,


http://www.beststuff.co.uk/slx4.htm


Thats what I have got, and works a dream...(well I aint got the exact booster/distribution thing above, but the same principle applies)


all it is essentially doing is using the digital signal, into sky from your dish, and then using a UHF signal out of the sky box into the booster/splitter, and pushing that signal around.

Only thing is, if you aint got a normal TV arial, all you could ever do is programme each tv to only a sky channel (say on channel 6 for argument sake) but then you won't be able to watch normal TV through an arial (if that makes sense) as you aint got a tv arial into the skybox anyway

 

oh, one other thing, you would have to open up the hidden

menu on sky box, in order to "activate" The UHF out....

 

yup that makes sense cheers mate

 

Great fun this is ...

Your ariel input goes into the back of your sky box. There are also two outputs, one goes to the back of your Video or TV the other allows another cable to go to any other room in the house. I think they are labelled UHF1 and UHF 2 or something like that ... been a while since I've done it.

If you want to watch sky in another room and you want the same channel as downstairs it's as simple as this:

UHF2>to>upstairs TV

If you want to be able to change the channel from upstairs then it's this:

UHF2>to>magic eye (in room upstairs)>upstairs TV

You will then be able to change the channel from upstairs from upstairs (after enabling eye - instructions come with it).

If you want to watch sky in more than one room upstairs you'll need either a signal booster or a distribution amplifier. I have a DA which runs to four bedrooms and the dining room, you can get them for up to eight rooms. A signal booster can have compatibility problems with the magic eye so if you want to change channels from upstairs you'd be better with a distribution amplifier.

For simply watching in various upstairs rooms:

UHF2>to>Signal booster>to>upstairs TV1>upstairs TV2 etc

A distribution amplifier allows a 'return path' (lets signals travel both ways) and so is compatible with a magic eye. This will let you watch in various rooms and change channels in various rooms. For that the set up would be:

UHF2>to>Distribution Amplifier>to>magic eye>upstairs TV1>upstairs TV2 etc

At the moment this is the set up I have. A wire from the back of sky, outside up the side of the house and into the loft where it becomes an input in the distrubution amplifier. From there it goes to an aerial socket in each room and in the main bedroom we plug a magic eye allowing us to change the channel. Every TV in the house can then watch sky and the living room and bedroom 1 can change the channel.

If I want to change the channel from another room, eg - I'm in the spare room on the computer then I just take the magic eye with me.

I've tried setting up a magic eye in all bedrooms so anyone could change the channel but some reason the system freezes when I try to hook up more than one magic eye. It may be that the amplifier can't cope or possibly even the sky box - in any event it's no great hassle taking the magic eye to whichever room I'm in.

Alternatively you can use a digisender which plugs into the back of the scart socket and sends the signals to any tv with a digisend receiver unit. They are very useful because you can send anything not just sky, so you can put a DVD on if it's plugged into the back of the player and send that around the house. Only problem with them is you need plug space for the sender and receiver unit.

I have an all singing all dancing digisender that cost over £100. You can plug four different units into it and send them around the whole house, and it allows a return path for fast forwarding DVD's altering sky etc ... but the Amplifier was more convenient. I keep meaning to stick the Digisender on e-bay!

Hope that helps.

 

I have been doing the UHF out thing for years and can guarantee that it works. You also dont need the o/side aerial as your dish is still providing the signal.

 

cheers - i have a stand alone tv upstairs ie not wired into sky and no aerial, do i just need to buy the magic ie thing and away i go?

 

I just run a co-axial wire from the back of the sky box to the tv upstairs. Tune a channel in on your upstairs tv using the normal method you would use to find BBC1 etc. Store it when it finds the sky signal. Job done. You just have to go to the box to change channel.</p>

 

your better off just buying an av sender, plugging one into the back of the sky box, the other into the back of the TV upstairs and thats your lot, sky works on tv upstairs, there are no messy cables everywhere and you can change channel from upstairs too if you take the remote up with you.

comet do one for 25 quid

 

nice one mate -thats what im looking for- easiest solution possible.

 

Here you go

This is the sort of thing

http://www.gizoo.co.uk/Products/AvCommunications/TvGadgets/AVSender.htm

 

thanks a lot mate

 

I'd think twice about an AV sender

Used to have a panasonic one (paid £90 for it, thought that if I bought the most expensive one it would be better...), but it was really poor. Because it's wireless it is prone to interference. Things such as mobiles, wireless landlines, wireless broadband, even baby monitors! all effect the quality. Picture was fuzzy, sound was very poor. Progs like CSI (where the picture is often dark) came out very bad.

I have now used the magic eye solution...ands it's bang on. I've ran the cable up the outside of the house and into the bedroom (so there's no cables up stairs etc) and you can change the chanel upstairs too (including sky+).

The magic eye cost about £20 and the extra coax cost a fiver so much cheaper than the av sender.

 

Changing channel from all rooms

&quot;If I want to change the channel from another room, eg - I'm in the spare room on the computer then I just take the magic eye with me.

I've tried setting up a magic eye in all bedrooms so anyone could change the channel but some reason the system freezes when I try to hook up more than one magic eye. It may be that the amplifier can't cope or possibly even the sky box - in any event it's no great hassle taking the magic eye to whichever room I'm in.&quot;</p>

Try one of theses fella </p>

http://www.new-channels.com/Mail%20Order%20Products%20Pages/TV%20Amps/P_Global_T140_Sky_Amp.htm</p>