BGonaSTICK
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- My Satellite Setup
- Dreambox 7000, Skystar2
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- Brighton
The first problem I had was working out which section to post this in!
O.K I'll try and keep this simple.
I have two satellite systems. One downstairs, which is a Sky digibox connected simply to a Sky minidish. The second is upstairs, and is a Skystar 2 PCI card in my PC (...obviously...) connected to my diseqc motor-driven Triax 88cm dish.
Everything is cool. I can watch the mature content upstairs while my wife watches Eastenders downstairs. In fact, I only have to talk to the old trout if we accidentally meet in the kitchen if she gets a coffee while I'm getting a beer.
Here is the bummer. My motorised dish won't get round to 28.2E, so if I want to check out some BBC programmes, I have to watch the pictures and listen to my wife. Not ideal, I'm sure you'll agree.
What I need is a simple way of maintaining the two systems as they are, but also having the ability to use the Sky minidish with my PCI card.
I don't mind upsetting the wife when she's watching Eastenders, but I don't want to be unplugging and plugging cables either. I might spill my beer, so it's got to be an additional diseqc-type arrangement.
Can somebody fill me in on how to do the additional switching without confusing my motor, or causing me any excercise. I was thinking along the lines of a twin-output LNB on the minidish, and a 2:1 diseqc switch on the feed to my PCI card. Whaddya think?!?!?! Will this would work if I (temporariliy) leave the digibox on standby?
Oh, and although I definitely wear the trousers in my house (no, really... I do...), please don't tell my wife I called her an old trout, 'cos she's very scary when she's mad. Even after a few beers.
Lazybloke.
O.K I'll try and keep this simple.
I have two satellite systems. One downstairs, which is a Sky digibox connected simply to a Sky minidish. The second is upstairs, and is a Skystar 2 PCI card in my PC (...obviously...) connected to my diseqc motor-driven Triax 88cm dish.
Everything is cool. I can watch the mature content upstairs while my wife watches Eastenders downstairs. In fact, I only have to talk to the old trout if we accidentally meet in the kitchen if she gets a coffee while I'm getting a beer.
Here is the bummer. My motorised dish won't get round to 28.2E, so if I want to check out some BBC programmes, I have to watch the pictures and listen to my wife. Not ideal, I'm sure you'll agree.
What I need is a simple way of maintaining the two systems as they are, but also having the ability to use the Sky minidish with my PCI card.
I don't mind upsetting the wife when she's watching Eastenders, but I don't want to be unplugging and plugging cables either. I might spill my beer, so it's got to be an additional diseqc-type arrangement.
Can somebody fill me in on how to do the additional switching without confusing my motor, or causing me any excercise. I was thinking along the lines of a twin-output LNB on the minidish, and a 2:1 diseqc switch on the feed to my PCI card. Whaddya think?!?!?! Will this would work if I (temporariliy) leave the digibox on standby?
Oh, and although I definitely wear the trousers in my house (no, really... I do...), please don't tell my wife I called her an old trout, 'cos she's very scary when she's mad. Even after a few beers.
Lazybloke.