tv distribution

[danmoriarty]

Evening everyone

Hope you've all had a busy day

Just a small problem for you to solve

I'm trying to work out how to get my tv connections sorted at home. I've cabled all my coax in and this is how it stands ATM:

Digital aerial: From my aerial I've taken a feed to a splitter which then goes off to designated places. That's simple enough.

Sky tv: twin coax from sky dish to sky box position where main tv will be. I've then planned to use the magic eye. I've taken a coax from sky box position back to another splitter, which goes to all the other tv places giving me sky in each tv place.

Now where I've come unstuck is, I now have two separate tv feeds at each outlet but what outlet plate should I use? Is it a triplexer? I picked up a double outlet plate (hager) and realised that won't work

I could obviously just drill some blank plates but I'd rather not.

Hope that all makes sense

Thanks in advance guys

 

[NozSpark]

You should have brought your TV aerial to your sat receiver and then taken RF2 up to a dist amp (with magic eye pass through) and then single coax runs to each tv point

 

[danmoriarty]

Tv (not sky aerial) to back of sky box?

How does that keep the sky signal separate from the "normal" tv signal?

Please excuse my ignorance, not put tv in like this before. I'll draw a picture of what I've got where shortly. I'll have to work with what I've got now....

 

[NozSpark]

Right,,

Your SKY box can pass through the UHF signal, to RF1 and RF2, it will also put whatever you are watching on SKY onto these outputs at channel 65 (or something like that). It will allow you to control your SKY box via a remote magic eye on RF2

So out of your RF2 you will get your normal TV signals and SKY on channel 65 (ish) which you can then pass back to your dist amp and then onto your other TVs

 

[Adrian]

you will also need to put the power output ON for the rf2/tv2 for the magic eyes to work on your sky box but cant remember how to do this from memory

 

[danmoriarty]

Well the good news is that i can accomplish that with the cables i have put it in. I will just have spare co-ax everywhere

thanks for clearing it up for me noz

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you will also need to put the power output ON for the rf2/tv2 for the magic eyes to work on your sky box but cant remember how to do this from memory

I recall reading up on doing this for passing my sky around, didn't realise i could pass my other aerial through as well. Im sure ill figure it all out when i get round to it