tune freeview tv to sky box.

jane_72

Can someone please help,
I have a Luxor freeview tv, Model no. lux-19-822-cob
i am trying to tune it to my sky box with a sky cable/aerial that was installed for a 2nd tv in the dining room. i have tried everything and cannot get it to tune in.
i have tried the luxor tv in my bedroom that is currently connected to sky which is on my bedroom tv, and still nothing. any ideas?:mad:

Buzby

You can't. The newer boxes do no conversion or inject any picture into the aerial output so whilst you will get a signal that will allow a 2nd TV to decode Freeview channels, the watched SKy channel will not be there.

The way to do this is with a video sender or splitter, into the AV input of te second TV.

jane_72

i have a sky+ box that have the spare cables running from the back off it, RF2 etc.. one to the bedroom which is working fine, the main tv in the living room which is connected to the sky box and the other cable which is in my dining room, which worked ok when i had an old tv running off it a while ago.
i tried the new tv on the bedroom sky aerial which is working fine on the tv that is in there already but just kept getting the same message on the new tv, "no signal, check your antenna"
i have done a digital auto tune and an analogue one which does not seem to work.

giraffe69

and an analogue one which does not seem to work.

That will never work as analogue TV was switched off in the last regions of the UK some six months ago.

Heinz

The signal from the Sky box RF2 output is an analogue UHF channel. You need to set the analogue tuner on the new TV to the correct UHF channel (i.e. to the same channel the old TV was set to).

almillar

As Heinz says:
1. Switch the Sky box on. Make sure it's outputting on RF. Does it let you choose channel maybe?
2. Goto the other TV. Switch it to the analogue tuner. All the analogue transmitters have been switched off, so your 1,2,3,4,5 won't work any more, but this is the system your Sky box uses. See if you can do an 'auto tune' in analogue, and the only thing it should find, will be your Sky box.

StuC75

So how come my tv upstairs connected to the co-ax output from sky hd box and a magix eye remote sender works perfectly at watching and changing the sky channel that is on downstairs..

Buzby wrote: »

You can't. The newer boxes do no conversion or inject any picture into the aerial output so whilst you will get a signal that will allow a 2nd TV to decode Freeview channels, the watched SKy channel will not be there.

The way to do this is with a video sender or splitter, into the AV input of te second TV.

Heinz

StuC75 wrote: »

So how come my tv upstairs connected to the co-ax output from sky hd box and a magix eye remote sender works perfectly at watching and changing the sky channel that is on downstairs..

Because Buzby is wrong - my (new) Sky+HD box has the usual RF2 connector and the ability to select any UHF channel for that RF2's output.

StuC75

sshh was trying to be subtle.. That guy has so much mis-information its untrue..

Heinz wrote: »

Because Buzby is wrong - my (new) Sky+HD box has the usual RF2 connector and the ability to select any UHF channel for that RF2's output.

googler

jane_72 wrote: »

i have done a digital auto tune and an analogue one which does not seem to work.

Are you saying the Luxor TV has both digital and analogue tuners?

penrhyn

Sounds like a cabling issue to me, OP If you connect your magic eye to the cable in the bedroom does the red LED light up?