Sky+ HD with only one input

vikramrkin

I live in a large block of apartments and use a communal dish to receive sky signal into my apartment.

I recently got sky+ installed and was told that I dont have two sockets in the wall to be connected to the sky+ box, which means that I cant watch one channel while recording another.

Is it possible for me to buy a splitter and connect two cables from one wall socket?

(I am not allowed to install my own dish in the flat)

thanks
Vikram

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

Splitting the cable won't work. Two cables from the dish is the only solution.

vikramrkin

I use a communical dish, so dont really have that option

any thing else that I can do to get two feeds to the sky box?

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

As far as I know, no. :undecided

jb66

My friend had this same issue but he had another sat connection in the bedroom so ran a feed from that to the HD box

spike7451

It is possible but it's complicated & may not work.Do a google search for 'Satcure' & 'Splitter' (for some reason,you cant link a web address to Satcure from here.)

Pokerlad

You could access the installers menu and set up 'one feed mode' on the HD box. You dont have the full functionality like watch one programme record another but it gets it functional for downloading epg data, channel switching for timed recording etc.

vikramrkin

Thanks to all the replies. I did some googling and found out that it is not possible to split one feed to two to connect to sky+ hd box.

however, I am thining of another idea. I have one sky+ HD box and one old normal sky box. Can I split one feed to two and connect it to two different sky boxes? that way, I can atleast record the channel on sky+ while watching free channels on the other sky box.

Pokerlad

vikramrkin wrote: »

Thanks to all the replies. I did some googling and found out that it is not possible to split one feed to two to connect to sky+ hd box.

however, I am thining of another idea. I have one sky+ HD box and one old normal sky box. Can I split one feed to two and connect it to two different sky boxes? that way, I can atleast record the channel on sky+ while watching free channels on the other sky box.

In short no. Its no different to splitting it in two for the one box. It is not like an aerial that you can split. Each tuner needs its own feed whether there are both in the same box or in two different boxes.

However if you have a suitable outside aerial no reason not to use that to pick up freeview while recording on Sky.

spike7451

Just a thought but if you have a small balcony on your flat facing the same way as the main dish,why not buy & use a Patio Mounting pole & get Sky to install a dish onto that or even site the dish in a bedroom pointing thru the glass.
It's a non permanent fix that way.

http://www.selkirkshire.demon.co.uk/analoguesat/windowdish.html

Kurtis_Blue

1. Check behind facia, sometimes you do have a spare (but dead) feed entering your flat, this will need to be connected at the multiswitch and a new Sat2 facia added.

2. If not and the cable runs are not too long you can stack and destack the Sky+ feed down the same cable. http://www.cyberselect.co.uk/range/1293
You will still need to use a spare point on the multi switch to use.

Around £150 for both the stacker and destacker. (you can buy "pro" versions for longer runs)

3. Run the spare multiswitch feed to you apartment externally.

Easy.