My cheap version of Sky multiroom

pawlala

Hi everybody.

Just thought I'd share what I've been doing the past 48 hours - I have a normal basic Sky box and because of the analogue signal disappearing last week decided to go and get a couple of cheap LCD flat screen tellies and run cables from the Sky box into the kitchen and office upstairs. The neat part comes from the "digieye" I got from Wickes which allows me to use the sky remote with each telly. All you have to do is connect it to the aerial and point the remote at the IR end.

All in all, £10 for cable runs, £20 for two digieyes, and £200 for two 15" tellies. Sky in 3 rooms. No need for any sky upgrades, new boxes or stupid engineers messing everything up! :money:

Wookey

Yes but surely whats being watched on the sky box can be the only program viewed, true multi room is being able to watch different programs on each telly by different viewers, for this you would need twin or quad feeds from the dish into a suitable box to allow multiple switching.

clockworks_2

wouldn't work in my house as we all watch different things.

SOSAGES

nothing wanting to sound like im bashing ur idea but welcome to the world of technology this sort of thing has been round fow ages

theesel1994

I do a similar thing. I have my main tv in the living room with a cable through to the bedroom. In the bedroom I have a colour TV next to the bed and an ancient black and white one next to the desk where I work. There was times when I had all three watching the same channel. Anyone coming into my flat thought I was mad having two tv's in the same small room showing the same channel.

pawlala

Wookey wrote: »

Yes but surely whats being watched on the sky box can be the only program viewed, true multi room is being able to watch different programs on each telly by different viewers, for this you would need twin or quad feeds from the dish into a suitable box to allow multiple switching.

there's only me who uses it, so its perfect

ixwood

A "proper" fake multiroom would be a quad LNB and then feeds and freesat/old sky boxes in each room.

It'd cost a bit more, but would give full functionality in each room.

kevsan

'fake multiroom' costs less, albeit with not the full range of sky channels,
thats what i have;

spare box from old house + £20- freesat card.
£7.50 worth of coax cable and an spare hour free.

Done!

Raksha

The OP's system worked well for us when the kids have the living room telly for their games and I wanted to watch Sky TV in the kitchen while getting dinner.. Had that set up for about 4 years before getting a Freeview telly in the kitchen

bigblackdog

i did something similar when wanting sky+ , i bought a second hand sky+ box , then found out i needed 2 feeds from the satellite dish , so had to buy a quad lnb and run another cable into the box , but i now have 2 'spare' feeds on the dish , i have been meaning to run another cable from it and get my old skybox working with the bedroom telly although with no card i will only be getting the free channels, i do have something called a wireless sender that i have used for years , there is one connected to the sky box and the other one is in the kitchen which enables the signal to be sent , but has to be the same program