Sky and Freeview at same TV's

dannygoulding

I am currently in the process of wiring my house extension and plan on wiring Sky TV to 2 additional TVs (in kitchen and bedroom) from the main Sky HD box in the living room via coaxial cables from RF2 ports to magic eyes at each TV.

The additional TV's will have built in Freeview which I want to use and need to provide an aerial signal for. Does means running coax from main aerial in loft for Freeview and another coax cable from Sky box RF2 to TVs?
I presume TVs only come with the 1 aerial port?

I have read on various posts that if you take the loft aerial to the Sky box, then you only need to take one cable from the Sky Box which will provide Sky (via Magic eyes) and Freeview at the TVs, using one aerial port? Obviously, going to 2 TV's I will have to split the cable out of the Sky box using an amplifier.

Is this correct, or is there an easier/better way?

Thanks

almillar

I've got a setup similar to what you're after.
Sky box in living room. 2 feeds from the dish. 1 cable from aerial into RF in.
RF Out goes from Sky box up to roofspace. That goes into amp/splitter (powered by the RF cable from Sky box), then an RF cable for each TV coming out of that.
This gives Sky on analogue TV for the other TVs, as well as the Freeview signal.
Depending on the size of your house, that's a very long cable from your aerial, and it weakens my Freeview signal enough that can I can't receive the newest HD mux (group of channels, it includes BBC4HD) but I can live with it. Keep cable length as short as possible (allowing for movement) and buy good high quality stuff. You don't want to do it again!

mspritch

If the aerial's in the loft you may need an amplifier or a bigger aerial as the roof tiles will wipe out a lot of the signal. Any insulating foil or solar panels would wipe out the signal altogether.

As I've got houses opposite that are in the path between my aerial (on the roof) and the transmitter, I've got, in order:-
Aerial (a big one)
VHF attenuator (police radio used to interfere with my TV signal)
Aerial amplifier (adjustable)
RF modulator (adding CCTV)
Triax RF modulator (adding Freesat and magic eye capability)
Aerial amplifier/splitter feeding all the TVs
Magic eyes on all the TVs