sky to another room

castle96

Hi, your help please. have just had a new sky box HD. Want sky in 2 other rooms. There are 2 spare RF out connections. Got sky to one TV - no problem

Using old cable/coax, not sky stuff for both

The 2nd TV just won't have it !! Technika (yes I know !). The 'source button gives the options

TV
Scart
Side AV
HDMI1
HDMI2
YPbPr
VGA/PC

None will give a sky picture, only freeview.

I have tried swopping (the 2 spare at the back of the sky box) the connection to which the aerials are connected. TV one still works. TV 2 still does not. Any ideas please

Buzby

You'll not have 2 RF sockets - only a loop-through, so only one of the sockets will inject the Sky feed into the RF stream. You need to split THIS one, and tune the TV's to view that RF channel. So, the Source output needs to be TV, nothing else.

This of course assumes the Sky box actually DOES inject what it is viewing into RF (to be used by your TV downstream). I recall the newer boxes need SCART or HDMI and do not use RF.

penrhyn

The latest boxes still transmit over the RF2 output. The OP may need to enable this on the installer menu.
The target TV needs to be set to use its analogue tuner ( I guess they all still have them even Tesconika) then tuned into the RF channel.

castle96

IMy main TV, the original one, not TV 1 or TV 2, is not HD, so dont use the HD connecion.

On the sky box there is 1 x scart and RF1 out and RF2 out. BOTH give a picture on TV 1.

castle96

where is the installer menu on sky

how to retune TV to analog. (Again, there is nothing on the menu !)

castle96

ah, under 'Instal and Tune
1.Auto channel scan (retune)
2. Manual channel scan
3. Analog fine tune
4. First time install

penrhyn

There should be a set up menu on the TV. I guess you'll have to dig out the mighty book of words.
http://www.tvlink.co.uk/downloads/SKYHDnewMENU.pdf

Since one of your TVs works with the RF outputs then you don't need to change anything on the Sky box.

castle96

penrhyn
have folloed steps 1-7.
RF power is now ON (though it worked on one TV when it was OFF !?).

TV2 is on (freeview(, but sky does not overide it

castle96

when I do a 'Manual channel search' > Analog, the Signal strength alternates between Godd and None. With no aerial in it stays at none

castle96

would an auto channel search show up the SKY channel on the list of other channels ?

penrhyn

Should do, there will not be any other channels as the old analogue transmitters have been switched off. BTW You don't need RF2 power on unless you are using a TV-Link magic eye, as the power on provides a 5 volt feed for the device.