Using someone elses sky card in my house?

Lady_K

I have an old digibox and using it for the free channels only. Daughter has moved back in with me and had to cancel her sky services 6 months early in the 12 month contract at her previous address so shes having to pay the full 12 months. Will her viewing card still remain active including the extra channels she paid for for the remaining of the 12 months? And if so can we put it in my digibox and it still work or can we just plug her sky+ box in to use that card till the 12 months is over then go back to my old digibox?

I know sky+ recording etc wont work in my digibox or even if we use her sky+ box at my house as I don't have a sky+ dish but we just want to view the channels

Browntoa

you need to ring sky up and get it twinned with the new box

boliston

Lady_K wrote: »

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I know sky+ recording etc wont work in my digibox or even if we use her sky+ box at my house as I don't have a sky+ dish but we just want to view the channels

I thought you can use "single feed" mode to record if you only have a single LNB. Also I'm sure upgrading to a dual/quad LNB is pretty cheap, about £20 including the extra co-ax.

davb

If you want to use her card in your box, then as Browntoa says, you will have to phone Sky and get them to pair the card to the box - they may not do it, as the card is registered at a different address. If they do, then when you wanted to swap back, you would have to contact them again.
If you just use her box with her card, then although probably against Sky's rules, it may work - and Sky+ pause/rewind/record should work as well - but only on one channel at a time, not two.

Lady_K

We will try her box then as I'd rather not phone sky. Will the card definitely be active with her chosen channels up to 12 months or will they just stop it from the disconnection date from the old address unless she specifically asks them to keep it active seeing as they are charging her?

She actually has been a sky customer for over 12 months but as she moved in between and took the services with her to the next property they started her on another 12 month contract without mentioning it and now shes moving again.

I thought to use the sky+ things you have to have the sky+ dish not just the extra cable

What I am worried about is if I use her skybox and card then if she moves out and I try to put the old digibox in and my own freesat card that it wont work as I don't want the pay for services myself as its just an extra bill, I just use the sky as I don't have aerial

davb

Lady_K wrote: »

Will the card definitely be active with her chosen channels up to 12 months or will they just stop it from the disconnection date from the old address unless she specifically asks them to keep it active seeing as they are charging her?

It depends on how sky have done it, notice or cancellation - it is a bit awkward if she is still in the 12 month contract, as there certainly used to be a clause that the sky box had to be connected to a live telephone line for 12 months, otherwise you had to pay full price for the box - and they did used to check, and send out warning letters.

Lady_K wrote: »

I thought to use the sky+ things you have to have the sky+ dish not just the extra cable

It should work, as the dish is the same - it's just the LNB (the bit on the end) that's different - the new ones have 4 feeds. There are some tweaks needed to get recording to work - this is from another forum:

Connect the feed to input 1.

Program a dummy recording to run during your normal hours of operation, I use QVC from 5:00PM to 11:00PM on a daily recording.

What happens is that the recorder tries to record the program using the input with no feed (Input 2). It will fail, but it will tie up that input so when you watch or program the second recording i.e the one you want to watch, it will work.

Plus - You get Sky+ functionality.
Minus - You can't record one program whilst watch a second.

Lady_K wrote: »

What I am worried about is if I use her skybox and card then if she moves out and I try to put the old digibox in and my own freesat card that it wont work as I don't want the pay for services myself as its just an extra bill, I just use the sky as I don't have aerial

I don't see why it shouldn't work if nothing has changed.

Lady_K

Tried swapping the old dig box over to the skyplus one complete with card and it does work and records but as said above not while watching another channel but thats better than nothing. Her selection packs are on too.

As daughter has cancelled all services with sky they are due to stop on 10th Feb, she did have broadband, phone and tv but now this is working here we are wondering if she should actually ask them to leave the card active seeing as she is going to have to pay for the full 12 months but will only have used 6 months services. Do you think she should just leave it and see if the channels stay on after 10th or ask them before that as asking them to reinstate them afterwards might start nother 12 months contract again, it always seems to.

Seems a bit mean when shes paying for all the 12 months