Sky Tv In Another Room, But......

[Lisa_Louise]

Hi

In the lounge we have our main sky+ box. We live in a newly built apartment and Countryside, who built the building, have said we are not allowed to have a sky dish as there is a communal dish somewhere in the building. This means we can't have a separate sky box in another room, our bedroom for example.

At the moment to watch sky in another bedroom we have had to buy a sky link with an eye and coax cable. This is working ok but we want to swap rooms and have sky+ in another bedroom a bit further away from the main sky+ box.

Is there any other way to get sky+ in the other bedroom instead of running a longer coax cable and using the sky link with the eye ?

And also, would having a longer cable have any effect on the quality of picture with the sky+ output?

Thanks

[Mass_Hysteria]

We have Virgin which is fibre optic cable, NO dish, we can have Sky through this if we choose. We also have Tivo boxes in lounge and 2 bedrooms.

[twix123]

You may be able to use a wireless connection, via your broadband modem, as follows:

http://www.satbuyer.co.uk/sky-wireless-connector-mini-p223.html

I personally don't know if this will work as I use a cable connection to my ordinary old fashioned Sky Box (not Sky+ or HD).

[flobadob]

You can buy transmitters that let you send and receive TV images. You set the transmitter up at the sky box or else at the second room. Then you set the receiver up in the new room and connect to your TV.

To control the sky box connect with a tablet or smartphone using the sky+ app.

Also look into 'sky go', I've never used it but think it may help with your issue.

[Gizmonster]

How's about an AV sender, discussed here:

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Technology/Question1293449.html

[Lisa_Louise]

Thanks everyone for your replies... I will have a good look at the links!

[VHG]

With Sky Go you can watch Sky on a computer.

My son has a computer in our attic we converted into his bedroom.

We cant get Sky up there but he can watch Sky on a computer by using Sky Go.

Sky Go is free if you are a Sky customer.

[Lisa_Louise]

Twix123.... Have looked at that link, not sure if it will work as it doesnt state whether you still need to have an Ethernet cable running from the sky+ box in the lounge to the HD box in the bedroom?? It's not clear to me.

We are trying to do the other way by running a cable but it's just not working. We can get a picture but the red light on the sky link isn't working so we can't use the sky remote to change channel...... So frustrating and doing our heads in now! Why can't sky come up with a way to have a seamless, wireless way of having sky in a different room when you can't have your own sky dish?!! If there is, PLEASE TELL ME!! And where to get it from before I go spare!!!

[Gizmonster]

What's wrong with an AV sender that I suggested??
A quick search reveals:

http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/tv-dvd-blu-ray/tv-accessories/av-senders/302_3010_30010_xx_xx/xx-criteria.html

Read the product details of the first one in the list - it seems to do what you're after, although my friend recommends that you use a 5.8 GHz, instead of the 2.4 GHz, due to possible interference .....

[Gizmonster]

Ignore the last 2 in that list, they're not what you're after ....

[Lisa_Louise]

Gizmonster, thanks for your reply. I have looked at your link and for the bigger version. They are quite pricey and not that reliable going by the reviews. I don't want to spend that much and it possibly still not be good. I did have a HD signal from the coax cable my brother in law fixed up for me a while ago, but because we have played about with it today it has stopped working and now I have nothing!

[paul1763]

i use a video sender in the bedroom, they plug into the red & vellow sockets on the back of the sky box and the same on the remote t.v this is then viewed in the scart mode, also beware there are 2 different frequencies you can get 2.4 ghz and i think 5.? ghz the 2.4 seems to suffer a lot of interference as there seems to be many things using this bandwidth. i don't know if there is a difference in price.

[Lisa_Louise]

Hi Paul.... I think that is what Gizmonster was referring to in his post

[Lisa_Louise]

Twix123.... I've just re-read everything on that link... It's On Demand... I can already get that on my wireless Tv. It's full Sky that I can control with my remote that I am after..... What I had until this afternoon when my husband decided to mess about with the cable that was working, but now isn't. So no TV at all now

[twix123]

Sorry Lisa_Louise, as I said I only have an old digibox, not HD or Sky+, bought off Ebay as I won't pay Sky for a new box. My coax cable connection has about 4 connectors in the cable run, so I can also set up a tv in our dining room if I want. I've had to buy 4 tvLink connectors over the years as they had a habit of losing their connections - I was informed by a tv engineer that they couldn't be repaired, but I have re-soldered a couple of them up - even now the 'red light' sometimes goes off for a while, so make sure that your connections are good. You can test that the RF Out socket on the back of you digibox is working OK by plugging your tvLink directly into it.

[Lisa_Louise]

Thanks for that tip, Twix! I now know it's not the Tv ink that's the problem, as the red light came on, it's the connections that have been messed about with. My husband thinks it's just a case of sticking the cable into the sockets and then screwing them up but making sure there is copper thread touching??! I really don't know!