Splitting and transmitting an HDMI feed

dhbedson

Hi fellow techies,

After some thoughts/experience here. I live in a flat - the freeview signal in my living room is fine, but the bedroom is terrible - 99% of channels don't work, which isn't the end of the world as I have a Chromecast but is a bit frustrating.

I have just got an absolute smashing deal on a year's broadband, line rental and YouView TV from BT - just the basic box so one HDMI port out, but the main thing is that this is a set top box as well as providing the extra channels over the net.

I'll have this in my living room, I already have the coax cable running to the bedroom however this goes under my fireplace and then under the floor boards or I'd have traced it back long ago to work out why the signal is so pants.

I haven't got the box yet, but what I am thinking is I could split the HDMI out, one for the living room and the other for the bedroom - but then I need to get this feed to the bedroom somehow. Obviously a splitter and HDMI cables is a no go as this would mean drilling holes big enough for a HDMI connector in the walls! I already have holes the size of a coax where needed so I am happy to terminate the coax under the fireplace and just rip it out and replace.

What I am ideally after is a wireless HDMI splitter and sender (with IR support for remote) - there are plenty of products out there but I don't want to spend too much - the YouView contract is only a year and I don't know if the box continues as a set top only after this time so I don't want to spend loads that will not be usable next year.

Has anyone done this? Any recommended kit? Any watch outs?

custardy

How much TV do you watch in bed?
Wouldnt something like a Now TV box do for basic TV?

dhbedson

Not a lot, the whole situation would be an 'ideal' - if worse comes to worse, or it's just throwing away money for a nice to have, I'll just continue to use the standard iPlayer etc. on my Chromecast.

Just thought I'd see if there are any good ideas out there

Inner_Zone

dhbedson wrote: »

Not a lot, the whole situation would be an 'ideal' - if worse comes to worse, or it's just throwing away money for a nice to have, I'll just continue to use the standard iPlayer etc. on my Chromecast.

Just thought I'd see if there are any good ideas out there

Now TV box from £10 upwards, sideload TV Catchup you will get most of the Freeview SD channels.

dhbedson

Inner_Zone wrote: »

Now TV box from £10 upwards, sideload TV Catchup you will get most of the Freeview SD channels.

I didn't know that was a thing - thanks, I'll look into it!