Old Irish Sky card

Chris1974

I live in S. England and want to view RTE. I have acquired an "old" Irish Sky card from a relative (i.e. the one he used before:) Sky sent him an upgrade/replacement or whatever they call it) - he had a family package. Me, I have no package, just a Sky box from an expired UK package that we used to pay for.
The question is: If I ask Sky Ireland to pair my newly acquired "old" Irish card to my box, will they do this? What do I need to say/do?

Topper

My understanding is no they will not pair it for you since they already know that the replacement card has been activated and a kill signal will be waiting for that card as soon as you try using it for any length of time, each card is linked to a database indexed by the property it was posted to.

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Chris1974

I sure hope the weather is warming up in Siberia. Here in Wessex it's brass monkeys.
Can I tell them I'm the original owner and I just want the card to be paired to a second (out of subscription) box that we're using in a different part of the house? or in a touring caravan, or a boat?

Analoguesat

You may as well throw the card away - during the pairing process the blue cards are deactivated for use in any other Sky box. They will still work in Linux boxes, but only for a few weeks until the card swap is completed. Then they totally stop working.

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timo_w2s

Unlike in the UK where an expired Sky card picks up some FTV channels, RTE via Sky is a subscription channel so this wouldn't work as you need to pay for it.

eamonkeown

My understanding that if you have a Sky card/subscription for Rep of Ireland that RTE (and TV3/TG4) is free to view and is not subscription but is a subscription channel for Sky UK. Can anyone confirm if this is correct as I am planning to get a Irish Sky card to receive RTE in N.Ireland but am not totally sure how to do this but I presume that I need an address for the Rep of Ireland. Can they track that I am not using the card at the address given?

tomthebomb1968

Here in Northern Ireland when a sky sub is cancelled and the card returns to a ftv card it still opens all the Republic Channels except for TV3. So assuming this if you purchase a freesat card linked to a Northern Postcode i would think you should be able to get RTE1/2 and TG4. I am not certain though.