navtis
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- My Satellite Setup
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dreambox 7000
fixed dish
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- Heathrow
Hi,
I'm lost in the technicalities and don't know where to start... I have some idea of the computing side of things, but none of the TV/dish side.
I have a fixed dish pointing at hotbird feeding a Dreambox 7000 - my wife is Portuguese and needs it to stay pointing there for RTPi. I have a separate box for the english free-to-air terrestrial channels, with a scart connection going to a wireless transmitter sending the combined output to a TV in one of two other rooms.
This works - but now my computer wifi is interfering with the TV wireless signal, and the IR receivers dangling in front of the boxes keep getting knocked off... I need a better solution to get the signals to the other rooms. I don't have a good idea of what is practical and also what won't cost a fortune..
I'm thinking maybe I could get homeplug connectors to stream the (digital) AV signals over the mains instead of wireless. To do that I guess I need a PC - maybe a little fanless one - by the TV (or I can save by buying a monitor instead of a new TV, the old one needs replacing anyway) . And I can stream the output from the dreambox. But then how do I get the terrestrial TV signal sent? Is it practical to think of putting a second receiver on the dish, so I can get that to the dreambox too?
Or am I being too complicated and is there some simpler way to do this that I'm missing?
Grateful for any advice at all!
Graham
I'm lost in the technicalities and don't know where to start... I have some idea of the computing side of things, but none of the TV/dish side.
I have a fixed dish pointing at hotbird feeding a Dreambox 7000 - my wife is Portuguese and needs it to stay pointing there for RTPi. I have a separate box for the english free-to-air terrestrial channels, with a scart connection going to a wireless transmitter sending the combined output to a TV in one of two other rooms.
This works - but now my computer wifi is interfering with the TV wireless signal, and the IR receivers dangling in front of the boxes keep getting knocked off... I need a better solution to get the signals to the other rooms. I don't have a good idea of what is practical and also what won't cost a fortune..
I'm thinking maybe I could get homeplug connectors to stream the (digital) AV signals over the mains instead of wireless. To do that I guess I need a PC - maybe a little fanless one - by the TV (or I can save by buying a monitor instead of a new TV, the old one needs replacing anyway) . And I can stream the output from the dreambox. But then how do I get the terrestrial TV signal sent? Is it practical to think of putting a second receiver on the dish, so I can get that to the dreambox too?
Or am I being too complicated and is there some simpler way to do this that I'm missing?
Grateful for any advice at all!
Graham