RedDevil_UK
Retired Mod
- Joined
- Sep 24, 2004
- Messages
- 1,761
- Reaction score
- 34
- Points
- 48
- Age
- 54
- My Satellite Setup
- Dreambox 7000S, VU+ Solo2, 1.1m Dish, Moteck SG-2100A DISEQC Motor
- My Location
- Rochdale
problem solved
regulars on here might remember me wanting to share the big dish with sky... at the same time, and not keep having to swap the coax over.
this involves having the coax from the dish/LNB going into the dreambox and using the loop through ie coax output from dreambox into the sky digibox, it works fine untill you want to move the motor on the dish... it wont move!!!
at first i thought it couldnt be done.... then after loads of fiddling and the realisation that the problem lies with 2 boxes sending power to the 1 lnb, and going into the secret installation menu on the sky box ah ahh
by pressing
services> 4> 0> 1> select
you get a new menu and the option to turn off power to the lnb
then pick up the DB remote and move dish.
when you want to use sky again, turn off DB and the screen on sky you left ie secret menu is there still waiting change the power back to on and backup out of menu
woohoo best of both worlds...
PS reading this probably sounds long winded, but in practice this just takes a few seconds...
alot quicker than wrecking all the wiring under my TV each time i want to watch my ART subscription
regulars on here might remember me wanting to share the big dish with sky... at the same time, and not keep having to swap the coax over.
this involves having the coax from the dish/LNB going into the dreambox and using the loop through ie coax output from dreambox into the sky digibox, it works fine untill you want to move the motor on the dish... it wont move!!!
at first i thought it couldnt be done.... then after loads of fiddling and the realisation that the problem lies with 2 boxes sending power to the 1 lnb, and going into the secret installation menu on the sky box ah ahh
by pressing
services> 4> 0> 1> select
you get a new menu and the option to turn off power to the lnb
then pick up the DB remote and move dish.
when you want to use sky again, turn off DB and the screen on sky you left ie secret menu is there still waiting change the power back to on and backup out of menu
woohoo best of both worlds...
PS reading this probably sounds long winded, but in practice this just takes a few seconds...
alot quicker than wrecking all the wiring under my TV each time i want to watch my ART subscription