pchappo
Member
- My Satellite Setup
- sky+ multiroom - quattro distribution system wannabe
- My Location
- London, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
hi all,
i was wondering if you could take a look at my configuration, and make any suggestions for enhancements or improvements to the setup - also recommendations on satellite boxes would be good!
Premise
I am currently a sky subscriber, I want to put tv aeriels and satellite recievers around the house (bedrooms / living room / kitchen etc).
My initial solution was to replace existing Quad LNB with a quattro LNB and put this through a multiswitch - which would feed all of my rooms - using the a quadplex plate (feeds 2 satellite / 1 tv point / 1 dab point to all rooms required.
This i have now achived. BUT .....
As part of the install of the new satellite dish and quattro lnb, the existing quad lnb was added onto a multi LNB holder, and pointed at the hotbird satellites (13e).
Equipment used
- Triax 78cm dish
- Labgear 5x16 multiswitch - 14 connections are used off this.
- I have 2 networked switches which allows all bedrooms to have wired networking access
- Dell FX160 Dual core atom processor with 2gb memory and 500gb hard disk (runs silent and low power) running ubuntu 11.
Things i want to do:-
- put a USB DVB-S onto the Dell machine, to allow the sharing of hotbird signals (i have a feed from the quad lnb for it) - also recieve the sky satellite
- in each room that has a feed from the sky multiswitch put in a satellite (was thinking something like a dreambox etc) reciever that will allow me to:
1. recieve freesat etc from the sky multiswitch
2. Can they be configred to read the signals via the ethernet (internet) - so like stream the hotbird signals to these boxes?
your thoughts and recommendations would be appreciated.
i was wondering if you could take a look at my configuration, and make any suggestions for enhancements or improvements to the setup - also recommendations on satellite boxes would be good!
Premise
I am currently a sky subscriber, I want to put tv aeriels and satellite recievers around the house (bedrooms / living room / kitchen etc).
My initial solution was to replace existing Quad LNB with a quattro LNB and put this through a multiswitch - which would feed all of my rooms - using the a quadplex plate (feeds 2 satellite / 1 tv point / 1 dab point to all rooms required.
This i have now achived. BUT .....
As part of the install of the new satellite dish and quattro lnb, the existing quad lnb was added onto a multi LNB holder, and pointed at the hotbird satellites (13e).
Equipment used
- Triax 78cm dish
- Labgear 5x16 multiswitch - 14 connections are used off this.
- I have 2 networked switches which allows all bedrooms to have wired networking access
- Dell FX160 Dual core atom processor with 2gb memory and 500gb hard disk (runs silent and low power) running ubuntu 11.
Things i want to do:-
- put a USB DVB-S onto the Dell machine, to allow the sharing of hotbird signals (i have a feed from the quad lnb for it) - also recieve the sky satellite
- in each room that has a feed from the sky multiswitch put in a satellite (was thinking something like a dreambox etc) reciever that will allow me to:
1. recieve freesat etc from the sky multiswitch
2. Can they be configred to read the signals via the ethernet (internet) - so like stream the hotbird signals to these boxes?
your thoughts and recommendations would be appreciated.
- more about thinking how i can use the existing equipment - ideally i want to spend around £50 for each reciever (i need 7!), and then look at streaming methods for the dvb-s card - i could even feed the sk dish into my dell box as well because i have a spare port on my multiswitch