Help! Sky Around The House, FreeSat in each room

paul10june

Hi,
I wonder if anyone can help me determine if its easily possible and with what kit to do the following@

I have SkyHD+ which I wish to be able to watch and control throughout the house

BUT I also want to have FreeSat receivers in each of the rooms where the main sky box is not - i.e. to be able to watch Freesat as an alternative when the main Sky Box is being used to watch something people in the other rooms don't want to watch.

I had thought about a domestic distributuon system with the appropriate faceplates - but have not been able to find one.

When I contacted one retailer he suggested I would need an LNB for each feed - but I had hoped to be able to distribute the LNB feed around the house in its raw state to use with Freesat - as well as conventional TV (digital and analogue)


Ideally as I am not at all technical, can anyone offer help as to:


- the viability of what I propose using a distribution system
- any kit (distributer and face plates) that would work
- how to set it up!

Many thanks in anticipation.

Paul

Robbo

Hi,

Freesat receivers in each room is the easy part. Depends how many rooms you want. Up to 8 single feeds you can use an octo LNB. More than that, you need a multiswitch and quattro LNB.

Don't know about multoroom Sky distribution and control, you'd use the RFout 2 I presume.

paul10june

Thanks.
Thats annoying - I wanted to try to avoid messing with the lnbs. its a shame there is no way of taking a single lnb feed and distributing it around the house. Thats life I guess.

Paul

Robbo

Yes, not possible due to band and polarisation switching with the LNB.

It can be done with a Fibre optic LNB of course, but they are expensive.

paul10june

Thank you.

P