Philips wireless TV sender? Or coax?

Graham_Devon

I bought a philips wireless TV signal thing, but it's hopeless, I get apicture, with a nice lot of cackling and bars running across the screen and have tried everything! Tried running it on all four channels, tried changing my wireless router channels, even turning my wireless router completely off, but nothing will work, just keep getting nasty cacckling noises. So that was a waste of money.

Now I'm thinking of running the sky pictures via coax to the bedroom (has a point in the bedroom, I'm just hoping it links to downstairs. That means I will be able to get the pictures, but not change channels)

So, anyone using a magic eye to change channels? The philips wireless thing I got won't change channels at all, though it's supposed to.

I don't want to buy something else for it not to work. I also don't want to get sky multiroom as theres only me in this house, so no need for watching different channels in different rooms.

This philips thing seems to give me a picture, but hardly any sound, apart from cackling. Previously, router was on channel 11, and when the philips wireless thing was switched on, it would knock broadband out. So changed channels and thats stopped (router on 9 now). But now when I load a page, or download anything from the net, the sound on the TV (using philips wireless) changes to a constant 'shhhhh' until the item has downloaded.

Please tell me coax and magic eye works lovely!!

monterey_2

The fella who had my house before me wired TV points to every room.
I can put a magic eye and a TV in any room in the house and get a good picture and remote control.

It must have been a lot of work, but now that I've lived with it for a while I would deffinately consider having it done if I moved somewhere else.
Works very well. No hassles and very reliable.

M-

Graham_Devon

Well I got the two points, one right next to the lounge TV, where the sky box is, with RF out.

One in my bedroom, where the other TV is.

What I need to do is get the signal from the back of the sky box via RF out, through the face plate and up to the bedroom. But at the moment, those faceplates are for feeding the normal anologue aerial, which I don't use. So wondering if I can cut off the aerial in the bedroom socket, and use it to trasnmit the sky pictures and audio?

cledor

For the Sky Magic Eye to work you'll need to connect the coax to RF2 on the back of the Sky Digibox and enable its voltage output which powers the Magic Eye through the coax lead.

The lead to the bedroom must not have any splices, breaks or short-circuits and may not be connected to an outside aerial as this may transmit the RF signal illegally.

If you wish to distribute to more than one room you'll need to get a suitable signal splitter which allows the Magic Eye Voltage through. (Example)

Graham_Devon

Might just get multiroom!

penrhyn

Mine works a treat, its a single run of cable from the RF2 output on the sky box to the remote TV.
The TV-Link people have same hints and tips on the website.

http://www.tvlink.co.uk/

They are the same lot who make the Gnome for Sky.

If you want to be a cheapskate and dont want to change the sky channel remotely you can just wire up the coax. Just be careful not to short anything out, stray screen wires are the usual offender, the remote TV RF in will have a capacitor so shouldn't cause a problem.

To enable the RF2 output on the sky box:
The TV Link has to be powered up, carrying out the following procedure with your sky remote control and in front of your Digibox does this.

1. Press SERVICES
2. Press 4 for SYSTEM SETUP
3. Press 0 then 1 then SELECT - enter the Installers Menu
4. Press 4 for RF OUTLETS
5. scroll down to RF OUTLET POWER SUPPLY and turn it to on.
6. Scroll down to SAVE NEW SETTINGS and Press SELECT to store the changes
7. Press BACKUP to go Back to your Sky channel