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Old 25-06-09, 03:55 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Help with sky set-up at home

Hi, I'm just about to move house and have ordered SKY HD and Sky+ multi room for our new place. In our current house we have Sky + and it is also fed around the house so it can be watched in any room through the aerial and we have a magic eye in our bedroom so we can change channels. I got our local aerial man to come and set this up once we had Sky installed in the house.

What I would like some help with is:
Can I have the following set-up in the new house and will the Sky engineer who installs sky be able to sort this out or will I need to get extra kit/help?

I have a Lounge, Kitchen, Playroom, Office, Master bedroom that all need as a minimum that need to have sky in them. I work from home so would like to be watching say the Cricket over the summer, however, I have 2 young kids who will want to watch their share of CBeebies during the day. Can I have a set up which would let me control one box and the kids the other while also being able to watch at least one of the boxes in any room in the house at anytime (through the aerial)?

I was thinking ideally of having the the Sky HD box in the Lounge and the Sky + multiroom box in the playroom.

Is it possible to link the SKy HD in the lounge with another room specifically my office and to be able to change the channels with a magic eye?

Also can I link the kitchen/playroom and bedroom to the SKY+ box again could I have magic eyes in the kitchen and bedroom to change the channels?

This is all way beyond my technical abilities to do myself but if it is possible do I need to get in my local aerial company to set it up and would it be expesive or is it actually an easy thing to do?

If this is too much then I assume I could have the SKy+ in my office, the SKY HD in the lounge and streamed all over the house with magic eyes in the playroom/kitchen/bedroom as needed, right?
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Default Re: Help with sky set-up at home

You can run a number of tv's and magic eyes from 1 sky box with the right kit, however you can't run 2 boxes from 1 magic eye. Probably the least expensive option would be to say use the HD box in the living room linked to your office, and the plus box linked to the bedroom.Another thought for you though is do the kids watch anything on subscription. If all they want is cbbc etc, which are available FTA, get an octo lnb for your dish and give them the use of a freesat box. You could then use the plus box in the bedroom and even link it to another room.
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