Lost upstairs sky feed

notanewuser

We've had sky for years, and always had it set up on our television in the bedroom via the existing ariel sockets. The feed comes in from the sky dish into a loftbox, then from there down the ariel cables to the living room and bedroom. (Not multiroom.)

We replaced the television in the bedroom a couple of months ago. The sky set up fine and worked for a little while. We haven't done or changed anything, but now there's no sky signal in the bedroom. Freeview signal is very strong (local mast recently updated). Have replaced the loftbox as thought that had died, but no. Tried plugging another television in and nothing (that television worked downstairs though).

So I think the issue is in the socket or with the cabling. Is there any other simple thing I could be missing?

Buzby

No idea without finding out how the installation is wired. If not MultiRoom (which needs 2 Sky boxes) if you have only one then the dish feed goes only to the single receiver.

If you get Sky on one of your TV's then the receiver is working fine. HOW do you feed the sat receiver!s picture to the other set? If SCART or HDMI then the fault will be here. If purely aerial - I don't believe current Sky boxes inject their output into the aerial feed.

That said, with Freeview no box injects the channel into a watchable stream so you will need an audio/video connection.

Heinz

Buzby wrote: »

If purely aerial - I don't believe current Sky boxes inject their output into the aerial feed.

Yes they do.

penrhyn

Indeed they do, OP do you use a magic eye receiver, if so is it lit.
Also remember that the TV has to be tuned to an analogue (not freeview) channel to pick up the Sky signal.

notanewuser

penrhyn wrote: »

Indeed they do, OP do you use a magic eye receiver, if so is it lit.
Also remember that the TV has to be tuned to an analogue (not freeview) channel to pick up the Sky signal.

No, don't use magic eye.

It was all tuned perfectly. We didn't change anything (but the local TV mast got upgraded) and now suddenly it's not working.

Buzby

Heinz wrote: »

Yes they do.

My HD box doesn't.

Further, with TV's having no analogue tuners, how is this going to work?

notanewuser

Buzby wrote: »

My HD box doesn't.

Further, with TV's having no analogue tuners, how is this going to work?

It was working!!!!

notanewuser

DH reckons the freeview signal is too strong now - the television picks up a near perfect freeview signal even when the aerial is disconnected.

[Deleted User]

Buzby wrote: »

Further, with TV's having no analogue tuners, how is this going to work?

While it's true that analogue has now been dispensed with from a broadcasting perspective, TV sets still have (and will continue to have) analogue tuners for some time yet.

almillar

notanewuser (and others - looks like the change in the Freeview broadcasting setup is interfering with the RF modulated input from the Sky box downstairs. Is there any way of changing the UHF 'channel' that the Sky box downstairs transmits at? Once you change this, leave it all switched on, and do an analogue retune/search on the bedroom set, and the only channel it finds should be the Sky box.

notanewuser

almillar wrote: »

notanewuser (and others - looks like the change in the Freeview broadcasting setup is interfering with the RF modulated input from the Sky box downstairs. Is there any way of changing the UHF 'channel' that the Sky box downstairs transmits at? Once you change this, leave it all switched on, and do an analogue retune/search on the bedroom set, and the only channel it finds should be the Sky box.

That fixed it. Thank you!!!