Change TV signal from RF to HDMI ????

abc123456

Is this possible?? (Situation created by previous owner!! :-)

Currently I have a TV in the kitchen which is served by an indoor TV aerial.

The aerial socket is at the other side of the house (in the living room), and the signal cable runs from this socket, down through the floorboard, under the floorboards to the kitchen where it runs up the wall, behind the plasterboard to a height of about 6 feet, where the cable comes out of the wall, and the socket plugs into the back of the TV (wall mounted flat screen.

I cannot get certain channels on this TV as of a couple of months ago, ie BBC channels, Sky News etc.

I have tried a retune of the TV, factory reset, then retune ...nothing can bring the channels back.

Is it possible to adapt the coax cable so that I can run an HDMI signal into the back of the TV, as my SKY, YouView box and Apple TV are all connected near to this TV socket (in the living room)

Or is there anything like a dongle or something like Chromecast etc. that can simply plug into the HDMI port of the kitchen TV so I can get live TV channels, BBC and SKY News included? (there is no room for a digi box of at the kitchen TV as it is wall mounted, and I dont want any shelve etc.

Any suggestions welcome as to how I can improve my reception of live TV channels, particularly BBC and Sky News.

RobTang

You can but there doesn't seem to be any consumer focused products out there...


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Edision-HDMI-Modulator-Full-Distribution-Black/dp/B00KBXKJ2A


you might be better off with a wireless hdmi sender


http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/5-ghz-wireless-hdmi-video-sender-used-b38nl

pappa_golf

which is faulty the cable or the indoor TV aerial

abc123456

pappa_golf wrote: »

which is faulty the cable or the indoor TV aerial

I dont think either is, I think that we just don`t receive the "missing" channels because of our location. When I did a retune on the TV, it was missing the channel numbers that were listed on the Freeview website as requiring change due to a frequency change, however my TV cannot alter this manually and I dont want to buy new TV because of this.

abc123456

RobTang wrote: »

You can but there doesn't seem to be any consumer focused products out there...


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Edision-HDMI-Modulator-Full-Distribution-Black/dp/B00KBXKJ2A


you might be better off with a wireless hdmi sender


http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/5-ghz-wireless-hdmi-video-sender-used-b38nl

Thanks for that. The first one is too expensive, I would be cheaper buying a new TV, and the second one involves a box at the kitchen Tv point, which I dont want.

psychic_teabag

Sorry, I'm not clear on the setup. I think the signal from the indoor ariel is delivered first to the living room, and then through a long coax cable from there to the kitchen. I assume you are trying to use the freeview (digital) tuner on the kitchen tv to get the picture. Do you also have a TV in the living room using this same ariel feed ?

Does the kitchen TV get the missing channels if you move it through to the living room and plug in there ?

Have you tried an ariel amplifier in the living room (or closer to the ariel) ?

One idea that occurred to me was that maybe you could use an old freeview set-top box which has an RF output. Then the digital decoding would be happending in the living room, closer to the ariel, and it would be analogue RF you send through to the kitchen. This assumes the kitchen tv has an analogue tuner as well as a digital one. I don't know if set-top boxes output RF, or just scart.

mgfvvc

abc123456 wrote: »

Or is there anything like a dongle or something like Chromecast etc. that can simply plug into the HDMI port of the kitchen TV so I can get live TV channels, BBC and SKY News included? (there is no room for a digi box of at the kitchen TV as it is wall mounted, and I dont want any shelve etc.

Any suggestions welcome as to how I can improve my reception of live TV channels, particularly BBC and Sky News.

A Roku stick might suit? As it's internet streaming you would need wifi and a substantial data package.

abc123456

psychic_teabag wrote: »

Sorry, I'm not clear on the setup. I think the signal from the indoor ariel is delivered first to the living room, and then through a long coax cable from there to the kitchen. I assume you are trying to use the freeview (digital) tuner on the kitchen tv to get the picture. Do you also have a TV in the living room using this same ariel feed ?

The TV in the living room does not use the aerial feed. The socket comes from the aerial in the attic, and the cable comes directly from the socket, under the floor to the kitchen TV

Does the kitchen TV get the missing channels if you move it through to the living room and plug in there ?

No, channels still missing

Have you tried an ariel amplifier in the living room (or closer to the ariel) ?

Yes, it has no effect

One idea that occurred to me was that maybe you could use an old freeview set-top box which has an RF output. Then the digital decoding would be happending in the living room, closer to the ariel, and it would be analogue RF you send through to the kitchen. This assumes the kitchen tv has an analogue tuner as well as a digital one. I don't know if set-top boxes output RF, or just scart.

I have tried the RF output on my SKY box, and unfortunately, that does not even work for some reason. I get no signal at all (the RF output is switched on, on the SKYHD box)

abc123456

mgfvvc wrote: »

A Roku stick might suit? As it's internet streaming you would need wifi and a substantial data package.

I have BT Broadband unlimited, so will look into that, thanks.

debitcardmayhem

Sounds like you have a problem with your cable / connector / signal, you say the sky box/living room tv doesn't use the aerial, the sky rf won't work if there is no link between it and the kitchen, and why the kitchen tv won't find channels in the living room.

psychic_teabag

Is it possible that the freeview transmitter you are using has stopped transmitting that multipex ? (Seems unlikely if it's BBC, but...)

I lost some freeview channels a while back, and ended up manually tuning them (by typing in frequencies obtained from one of the freeview technical sites). That was on an old humax PVR.
(edit: I didn't want to do a full retune since then I'd have to set up all the recording events from scratch, etc.)

When you tried using the RF output from the sky box, was that through the cable to the kitchen, or when the TV was in the living room ? Unfortunately, at the moment it's still not clear which bit of the chain is broken - could be anywhere from the freeview transmitter to the TV itself !

I guess the living-room TV is not itself doing any decoding - it's just acting as a monitor for SKY box, etc. Have you tried using its tuner (either digital tuner with ariel feed, or analogue tuner from SKY RF output ?)