Where am i going wrong with my sky?

lsrlodls

Hi i am completely thick when it comes to things like this so please help if you can. i have a spare sky box and would like to use it as freeview in my bedroom without having to pay for sky multiroom. i have tried plugging it into the aerial point in my bedroom as you would a normal freeview box but all i get is "no satellite signal is being recieved". Could someone please tell me what to do to make it work pref point by point Thank you :A

ps both boxes are normal sky not sky+

wishiwasarichgirl

it needs to be connected to your sky dish, not your aeriel, doesn't it?

lsrlodls

i ran a lead from the main sky box rv1 outlet to the second box satelitte dish inlet but still got the same message . comletely useless with technology !!!

espresso

lsrlodls wrote: »

i ran a lead from the main sky box rv1 outlet to the second box satelitte dish inlet but still got the same message . comletely useless with technology !!!

If you want to use a second Sky box, you will need a cable running to the dish and a multi output LNB fitting. e.g. more than one output.

ic

Yep - the sky box *needs* to be connected directly to a satellite dish to get the freesat channels. Tbh its cheaper and easier to just go out and buy a freeview box for the bedroom - especially as you already have an aerial run there (unless of course you live in an area that can't get it).

shelly

lsrlodls wrote: »

Hi i am completely thick when it comes to things like this so please help if you can. i have a spare sky box and would like to use it as freeview in my bedroom without having to pay for sky multiroom. i have tried plugging it into the aerial point in my bedroom as you would a normal freeview box but all i get is "no satellite signal is being recieved". Could someone please tell me what to do to make it work pref point by point Thank you :A

ps both boxes are normal sky not sky+

We have sky in 3 rooms in the house and don't pay for multiroom and only have 1 box. We do this by using AV sender thingys. Using these you don't need to do anything to the dish. Only thing is though that both TV's have to watch the same channel.

Sorry I can't give more info than that or how to set them up as hubby does all that but I know thats what we have.

stephen25uk

i have installed a few dishes in my time ,all you need is a quad lnb,this has four outputs,these are not expensive,about 10 quid on ebay,swapping them over is easily done,there are plenty of guides on internet just look around

turk3y

would you not need a sky freesat card for the other box to get free chans? these are 20 quid i think one of payment.

cundall

turk3y wrote: »

would you not need a sky freesat card for the other box to get free chans? these are 20 quid i think one of payment.

Yes you would... so its a card and a new LNB...

What the OP has is a feed from the back of the sky box this would only work via magic eye and remote... but you would not watch two different channels at once!