sky connector help please

wannabe_moneysaver

I've just bought a tvlink thing so I can watch sky (and hopefully sky+ recordings?) in another room. We had the tvlink installed a few years ago and now have freesat having just cancelled our multiroom subscription so I'm sure its the correct wire I am trying to connect into the tvlink thing but the wire has a "screw" type connector (into the sky box) and the tvlink needs a "push in" type (please excuse my ignorance of not knowing the correct terms!). Can anyone tell me the name of the connector I need to buy please? Presumably I can get one on ebay? Thanks in advance.

penrhyn

The TV link is connected between the RF2 output on your main Sky box and the aerial input connector on your remote TV. Both connectors are standard Belling Lee coaxial.
The screw in connectors you refer to are the input connectors from the satellite dish.and are known as F Connectors.
If you still intend to use your 'Freesat' Sky box then you could connect the magic eye remote unit to the RF input on the box and connect the RF out to the TV, giving you the best of both worlds.
The remote TV will need tuning in to the RF signal from the main Sky box, which needs to have its RF2 power supply enabled.

wannabe_moneysaver

Thanks for your reply - I must admit I'm a bit lost! I had hoped it would just be a case of taking the wire from the freesat digibox and sticking it in the tv link! As I said, we had the tv link thing in this room a few years ago, then changed it to a sky box when we got sky+ for the main tv.

Sorry to be thick, but is it likely that we have the "infrastructure" already here in this room given that we had tv link before or would the sky guy have replaced wires when moving the original sky box to this room for our multiroom subscription? I wonder if having multiroom means there are two separate connections from the actual dish - 1 to the sky+ and 1 to the digibox? There is only one sky wire coming into this room and I'm sure its coming from the sky+ box.

Your suggestion of having the best of both worlds and connecting the tv link to the digibox sounds good but I think I'd need to get some kind of wire to run from the RF out to the tv (would this be the actual tv or the tv connection on the tv link?!)

Perhaps I should phone sky - I'm sure I must be making no sense at all and sounding like a real dumb****!

Thanks for your reply though, it was kind of you to explain.:beer:

wannabe_moneysaver

Just to let you know, I've sat and read your reply again now that the kids are in bed and all is quiet:D and I think I have grasped it!:j I think I just need to get a wire to go from the tv link that I've put in the sky box and connect it from the tv link to the tv aerial input (on the actual tv, lol)!

I've totally embarrassed myself with the previous message but I've got it now. Thanks very much again for your reply, makes perfect sense now!

penrhyn

Glad it made sense, here is a diagram I found on the TV-Link website:-

http://www.tvlink.co.uk/downloads/185075765_tvLINK.pdf

and the instructions for turning RF2 power on:-
To turn on the RF2 in the installer menu of your Sky set-top box:
Using your Sky Remote control in front of your Sky set-top box:

1. Press the SERVICES button.
2. Press the NUMBER 4 button [System Set-up].
3. Press the 0,1 then the SELECT button [Installer menu].
4. Press the NUMBER 4 again [RF Outlets].
5. Press the DOWN ARROW button once [Outlet power supply].
6. Press the SIDE ARROW button once [turning power on].
7. Press the DOWN ARROW button once again [save new settings].
8. Press SELECT.

BexTech

Do you want to watch the Sky+ box that is in the main room on the TV in the other room that also has a Sky box in that is now Freesat (200+ channels)?

This giving you access to the Sky box in that room and the 200 channels and then also access to the Sky+ box in the main room?

You'd keep all the wring as is - the dish to the input etc on both boxes.

Then on the main box (Sky+) you'd connect up a coax cable from RF2 out to the room with the 2nd Sky box (Freesat) and then connect up the TV Link (remote magic eye) and then connect that to the aerial input (either on a VCR, Sky box or TV - depending on set-up) Make sure both Sky boxes don't clash on RF out. On the Sky+ box follow the above instructions on enabling the power to RF2 so the remote can control the box and not just send out the picture).

If the Sky box is connected up via SCART then you'd use that for watching your Sky (Freesat box) and then use channel 6, 7, 8 for example to watch the Sky+ box from the main room.

(Yes, having multi-room with two separate boxes does mean you have two separate connections to the dish. This is because each box needs to individually control the LNB and send a voltage to the LNB (a twin or quad LNB is like having two or four dishes) The Sky+ required 2 feeds and the other Sky box one - so that's three feeds (you'll see three wires coming from the LNB on the dish) Unlike terestrial TV where all channels are either broadcast horizontally or vertically (depending on where you live - you'll notice by the way the aerial is positioned) satellie carries both horizonal and vertical channels - so each box needs to send a voltage to the dish to tell it to receive vertical and another voltage to receive horizontal, hence you can't have one cable and split it.

wannabe_moneysaver

Thanks very much guys - jeez this technology business is complicated! Your instructions are great, thanks for taking the time.

BexTech - yes, to your questions - although I didn't realise this was possible until Penrhyn explained it was!

OH is out to get a cable to go from the bedroom sky box to that tv but from the sounds of things, I'll need a coax cable (see, getting the lingo now, lol) to go from sky+ box to regular box. Would he get this cable in B & Q or would it have to be a specialist tv/satellite shop/ebay?