TV License Second Home

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Hi,
We are fortunate enough to have a second home that is planned to be a retirement home but is currently rarely used. It isn’t used by anyone else. We are currently paying for two licences but only ever watch TV in one or the other, so I’m trying to understand what I can legally do to avoid paying a licence fee on the second home. I have a licence on my main home.
1. If I record TV programmes on a recorder in my main home and take the box to our second home and plug it into a tv and not used for any live tv other than streaming of Netflix, Prime etc - does this avoid the need for a licence?
2. Am I right in saying that I could use my recorders apps at the second home to watch all catchup programmes BBC excepted?
3. In otherr words I can use the stb reorder to watch all catchup except BBC iplayer and all prerecorded BBC programmes on my box without a licence?
Thanks.
Jeff
Source https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/broadband-and-tv/tv-licence/
We are fortunate enough to have a second home that is planned to be a retirement home but is currently rarely used. It isn’t used by anyone else. We are currently paying for two licences but only ever watch TV in one or the other, so I’m trying to understand what I can legally do to avoid paying a licence fee on the second home. I have a licence on my main home.
1. If I record TV programmes on a recorder in my main home and take the box to our second home and plug it into a tv and not used for any live tv other than streaming of Netflix, Prime etc - does this avoid the need for a licence?
2. Am I right in saying that I could use my recorders apps at the second home to watch all catchup programmes BBC excepted?
3. In otherr words I can use the stb reorder to watch all catchup except BBC iplayer and all prerecorded BBC programmes on my box without a licence?
Thanks.
Jeff
Source https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/broadband-and-tv/tv-licence/
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2. Yes
3. Yes
There is very little live BBC content we feel the need to watch live and most of the non-BBC channels we want to watch “live” would be perfectly acceptable via catchup a little later. Seems like I’m not losing much at all if anything. I haven’t read any other people suggest this as an approach for second-home owners.
Thanks again.
Just rereading the guide again. It implies that I can watch live tv at my second home as long as the source is the stb tuner through the tv and not the tv tuner directly. Have I understood this correctly?
Thanks again ....
Jeff
It doesn't matter how you receive these channels, all methods require a Licence to view (or where feasible, record).
Sadly, I think the answer to my questions appear to be “no, no no” unless the stb is powered by internal batteries.
The main rules are these:
You need a TV Licence to:-
- View/record scheduled TV channels received via traditional means (terrestrial, satellite or cable TV).
- View the channels above when they are received by concurrent Internet streaming.
- View/download BBC TV programs from BBC iPlayer.
You do not need a TV Licence if you only:-
- View commercial catch-up and video-on-demand services, whether free or subscription.
- View pre-recorded material from hard drive or physical portable media.
- View self-contained CCTV/Dashcam images.
- Play videogames.
- View BBC content on streaming platforms other than iPlayer (like Youtube, Netflix, Amazon).
- Stream "live" video services that are not TV channels (like Twitch, Youtube, newspapers, radio stations).
it may be acgood idea to de-tune your tv there and disconnect the aerial. However, if tvl come calling you do not have to let them in
Typre tv licence into youtube.
My reading of the guide as linked in my post of para 15 is that my stb needs to be inbuilt battery powered. Have I misunderstood?
Can’t they check iplayer users from their ip address which will give map coordinates?
I wonder whether iplayer detects and records what device was used? I can legitimately view iplayer and live tv from my laptop, but can iplayer differentiate I wonder.