Sky and magic eye advise please?

[Snokio]

Hoping someone can help, I take it that it is possible to have a feed direct from the sky box located in a living room to another room? (i.e. not looking to watch different channels in different rooms such as sky's 'multi-room')

But what will be needed to accomplish this?

Thanks

[sulky_uk]

my dad uses one of these, has a cable run from the sky box into this, as in you take the rf aerial outfeed

http://www.very.co.uk/e/q/sky-link.end?_requestid=312820

[suicidal_monkey]

If you can handle not being able to change the channel from the other room all you need to do is feed the TV-out from the sky box into the aerial socket in the wall and plug the other TV into an aerial socket in the other room. Ordinary RF/aerial cables that you probably have already will be fine.


We used to do that with Virgin but the new HD box doesn't have antennae out :-(

[Liberator]

I used to have the eyes that Sulky posted for my old sky box, you used to have to enable RF voltage on the second RF port from the settings menu to get it to work fully, but I've used a wireless video sender for the last 10 years or so. As it's 10 years old my model is no longer available, but if you type "video sender" into eBay you get loads of them that are a lot more sophisticated.

Make sure it has IR sending on it to allow you to control it remotely as well. Usually a little cable that has an IR LED on the end, you position it near the receiver on the Sky box.

[Whitey]

I have an HDMI splitter on my Sky+ HD output and it sends to 2 TV's. I then use the Sky+ app on iPhone and Android to control the box from either room. Works well!

[Benny]

Use a magic eye. It's cheap, it works, no funky controls. Plug coax in back of sky box. Plug other end in other telly with Magic Eye connector. Use Sky remote.
Job done, not complicated, no additional power, no ridiculous length cable runs and senders. Simple coax.

For more advice from the Benny school of direct advice please contact me through all the usual channels.

(I've used a magic eye for the last 5+ years and it's never ever been any issue. I've just moved a telly from one end of the castle to the other, no issue, twisted connections together, no solder, no proper connector blocks, reels of cable looped in the loft, no problem. It just works.)

[Snokio]

Thanks for the advise. Purchased a 'sky' magic eye only to find that the recently purchased new sky box does not have an rf output , so will use the old one which is not that old anyway.

Also purchased some co-axial cable but a worried that the inbuilt wall tv ariel inlets wont work, anyone know the difference between standard ariel cable and co-axial?

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[Whitey]

Is the new Sky box, HD?  If it is the new HD+ or HD Multiroom box then I don't understand why you would want to go with coax unless it's a very old TV without HD resolution.  That's the reason I went with an HDMI splitter, the quality of it compared to coax is so much better.  

p.s. I thought co-axial is ariel cable

[Snokio]

It is a HD box, but for the second TV im not too bothered,   I cant see how else I can get sky on the second set unless I run new cables between the (currently the arial cables are pre built into the walls)

I dont know enough about the cables to know if there is even a difference beteen them.


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[Sparko]

I have the same issue as snokio now, want to get my sky channels upstairs but without running any cables anywhere and without getting multi room. I'm a bit if a stickler for HD so thought about moving my Apple TV box upstairs and using sky go but you don't get all the channels on that

How does the HDMI splitter work? I presume I would need a massive HDMI cable running all the way upstairs wouldn't i? Or am I missing something?

[OldBloke]

I also want SKY HD in a second room without forking out for another multiroom sub plus all the extra drilling etc.

After a bit of research I've purchased these. OK they're not cheap but, when compared to multiroom, they will pay for themselves quite quickly. The transmitter has an HDMI pass-through so no splitter required. An IR blaster is included and they took me about 45 mins to get up and working. The toughest job was locating the IR receiver on my 2TB Sky HD box (used a torch at an angle and found it to the left of the central round light cluster). No HDMI cables are supplied so I had to order two of those as well.

HD quality is very good (a longer test is needed) but I certainly have no issues of connection quality (units are about 20M apart).

[Snokio]

Thanks for the update, I'm guessing you have to place this 'IR blaster' directly in front of the sky box, is it an easy to place or do you have to dangle it over the box?

[OldBloke]

Thanks for the update, I'm guessing you have to place this 'IR blaster' directly in front of the sky box, is it an easy to place or do you have to dangle it over the box?

It fits underneath as it happens. The blaster has a 2 inch base with the business-end angled at 45 degrees. Quite unobtrusive as it happens. I'll post a piccy tomorrow.

[Sparko]

Nice, this looks like the perfect solution. A bit pricey like you said but will pay for itself in the long run.

Just curious as to how the IR blaster looks on the sky box, it needs to be tidy or it would drive me crazy! Look forward to the piccy

[OldBloke]

The blaster pics as promised ...

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