Sky+ in a flat

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Freeview is a terrestrial service not a satellite service. I think your landlord has got Freeview and Freesat mixed up. The two Sat terminals on the plate are for F connectors. The Freeview service uses standard coaxial terminals at both the outlet plate and the TV.

Freesat uses the same dish set up as Sky except you only get the non subscription services. If you have a Sky+ box just connect it to the two F connectors on the outlet plate and check whether you get a satellite signal on both inputs. You can do that through the services button on your Sky remote and going across to settings then down and across to signal.

There is also a coax outlet on the picture of the wall plate and that is what should be set up for Freeview.

onomatopoeia99

That outlet plate is designed to be used with a multiswitch, such as might be found in a hotel supplying multiple rooms, or a block of flats, where one dish, TV and radio aerial serve all the properties. I have a bunch of these plates and a multiswitch which I'm in the process of installing in my home, so am familiar with them.

There's a good chance you have two coax satellite cables going to the back of it and it demuxes out the TV and radio aerial feeds at the outlet, so all four outlets will work.

Try it an see is the answer.

Moneymaker

GingerWarrior wrote: »

Well, I've ordered a twin cable to see if it works :-)

OK but it needs only one cable to test each of the outlets.

xsinaftersinx

You also need to check the dish can handle the additional feed. I lived in a house that was attached to 3 others, there was a restriction on the properties meaning that only one dish could be attached to them houses so a communal dish was put up. The dish only had space for 6 feeds (so 3 feeds with Sky plus). Just something to check as it may have been the amount of feeds coming from the dish restricts the amount of feeds into each property. Splitting one cable into two also will not work due to the way the cable feeds the box.

InsideInsurance

onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

That outlet plate is designed to be used with a multiswitch, such as might be found in a hotel supplying multiple rooms, or a block of flats, where one dish, TV and radio aerial serve all the properties. I have a bunch of these plates and a multiswitch which I'm in the process of installing in my home, so am familiar with them.

There's a good chance you have two coax satellite cables going to the back of it and it demuxes out the TV and radio aerial feeds at the outlet, so all four outlets will work.

Try it an see is the answer.

You actually need to see the back of it to know what really going on. Certainly you can have things that look like this for use with a multiswitch but mine looks almost identical and is for a direct connection to the aerial and dish (and very tight for space with all the cables attached)

My place 2 homes ago was a new build flat and had the dual feeds in the living room for Sky+. I then moved into another new build flat and despite this one clearly being a higher grade than the first there was only a single feed into the living room.

Assuming you already have a Sky+ box then just hook it up and see what it reports in terms of signal via each line.

headpin

xsinaftersinx wrote: »

You also need to check the dish can handle the additional feed. I lived in a house that was attached to 3 others, there was a restriction on the properties meaning that only one dish could be attached to them houses so a communal dish was put up. The dish only had space for 6 feeds (so 3 feeds with Sky plus). Just something to check as it may have been the amount of feeds coming from the dish restricts the amount of feeds into each property. Splitting one cable into two also will not work due to the way the cable feeds the box.

This is the number of outputs from the LNB. You can also get an Octo (8) output LNB to fix to a sky minidish. Any more than 8 and you need to go through a switching box.