Newbie Here Cable run & dish problems, Grade 2 listed house

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Lurkums

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My Satellite Setup
Looking to acquire a satellite system. Here for advice. Computer is a Mac
My Location
South Devon
I need to Sort out my TV. Today it comes through a regular terrestrial aerial. The cable goes down the outside of the wall and enters the house “somehow”. I just found out it's glued to a window frame I need to repair, too.

Add that to the fact that running a new cable inside the house is a huge problem. There's nowhere to conceal it and She Who Must Be Obeyed doesn't want it tacked to the skirting boards.

What I think I want to do is to go to satellite TV. I may not put a dish on my house. I may put it on a pole in the back garden, though. My chosen service is 90% likely to be Freesat. I just want vanilla channels.

Can I create some sort of wireless feed from the dish to the TV removing the need for cables? Logic says it ought to be possible and simple, but I can't work out what to search for. I don't even know if I'm in the right forum, so please play nice if I'm not :oops::p

That's why I came here, hoping for help and to be pointed in the right direction, please. I'm not into spending a fortune, but I don't mind spending the right money.
 
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Your only hope, for a relatively cable free house, is an IPTV receiver, which works via the internet.

Why not run the cables behind the skirting boards, providing you are allowed to remove them, or fit new ones?
 
Mickha said:
Your only hope, for a relatively cable free house, is an IPTV receiver, which works via the internet.
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I guess that means I am subject to the vagaries of broadband speed? I am somewhat in the boondocks and speed is not what it might be here.

Mickha said:
Why not run the cables behind the skirting boards, providing you are allowed to remove them, or fit new ones?
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That's an interesting thought. It would get me 'round' the problem, but at the cost of a full redecoration. Somehow SWMBO will want to change the colour of the entire room.

I take it the simple sounding device I'm looking for to wireless link the feed from the satellite to the TV corner has not yet been made or costs a second mortgage?
 
It is possible to get the signal wirelessly from the dish - however it will probably cost you well into 5 figures and require a transmitter license. The only other way would be to house a satellite receiver near to the dish and use wireless AV senders from it to your TV.
 
Lurkums said:
I take it the simple sounding device I'm looking for to wireless link the feed from the satellite to the TV corner has not yet been made or costs a second mortgage?
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You won't find a "wireless antenna-cable extender" for consumer use.
If you absolute do not want cables into the house, you will have to put the set-top box in a water-tight but ventilated box just outside the window, and use a wireless video extender to send the signal to the tv. But this is a bit impractical - perhaps it's enough to put the cable in a small cable tray that stick to the top of the skirting boards, and can be painted same colour?

EDIT: Ah, beaten to it :)
 
davemurgtroyd said:
It is possible to get the signal wirelessly from the dish - however it will probably cost you well into 5 figures and require a transmitter license. The only other way would be to house a satellite receiver near to the dish and use wireless AV senders from it to your TV.
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I like the second way you mention (and thanks to the other reply which suggested similar). If I want to research a wireless AV sender what do I put into a search engine?

It may come to the cable tray, of course, but I hope to avoid that if I am able. My walls are unusual, made of concrete with random gravel and rocks for ballast, and thick. Drilling is a nightmare here
 
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You could certainly do it wirelessly with a sat to ip server and a sat ip receiver, perhaps using wireless bridges. Megasat SAT to IP Server 2
 
rolfw said:
You could certainly do it wirelessly with a sat to ip server and a sat ip receiver, perhaps using wireless bridges. Megasat SAT to IP Server 2
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That looks interesting. If I read the spec right I connect the LNB "somehow" to the gizmo in the link. Then I connect that to my router, and then via that to the TV or TVs.

Assuming I've interpreted that correctly, must I use a physical cable from the gizmo to the router, and must I use a cable to my TV, or is WiFi sufficient?

Sorry to be a pain, this is a new world for me
 
st1 said:
You won't find a "wireless antenna-cable extender" for consumer use.
If you absolute do not want cables into the house, you will have to put the set-top box in a water-tight but ventilated box just outside the window, and use a wireless video extender to send the signal to the tv. But this is a bit impractical - perhaps it's enough to put the cable in a small cable tray that stick to the top of the skirting boards, and can be painted same colour?

EDIT: Ah, beaten to it :)
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How about. the set top box is something like a WiFi enabled Enigma 2 box with 2 satellite tuners connected to your 'dish-on-a-stick' with cheap and cheerful Kodi box(es) connected by WiFi located at your TV(s). Enigma box can also be fitted with hard drive to give recording facilities
 
If your existing aerial cable is where it needs to be why not just it and make and use FReeview rather than Freesat. If you have more than 5 Mbps internet connection why not supplement it with IPTV using a smart TV (no need for any additional wiring or boxes) and connect it via wifi to your router. If your router is not coventiently situated use some TP Linl extenders to improve the signal . if you have a reasonable internet connection you could use this as the main / actual solution .
 
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