Sky in another room

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CAH706

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1,971 posts

165 months

Tuesday 1st September 2015
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Fresh on the success of my last thread where i was helpfully ofered advice to sort my wireless issues, I have another question.

I am looking to view sky in a couple of rooms on an infrequent basis. I know I could get multiroom but I already have 2 subscriptions and any more seems excessive given the costs for something which wont be used a lot.

Ive looked at a wireless video sender solution but this doesnt seem that reliable and I had limited joy using these before.

Ive seen this (HDMI splitter)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Neet®-SPLITTER-Amplif...

And was thinking, split the HDMI cable and run the extra cable to tbe other room. The only concern I have is its c.10 meters away and the best route would be via an outside wall?

Any other suggestions/tips?

megaphone

10,736 posts

252 months

Tuesday 1st September 2015
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10m on an HDMI is okay, routing it through a wall is okay however, you'll need a big enough hole to get the connector through. You could run a CAT5/6 cable then use HDMI over CAT5 extenders.

DocJock

8,358 posts

241 months

Tuesday 1st September 2015
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Stick PC and SkyGo?
Works for my garage.

PAULJ5555

3,554 posts

177 months

Thursday 3rd September 2015
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DocJock said:
Stick PC and SkyGo?
Works for my garage.
I'm lost sorry what's a Stick PC

SidJames

1,399 posts

234 months

Thursday 3rd September 2015
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I run a 10m HDMI through an internal wall quite sucessfully. I might have used cat5/6 if I"d have known that I could (thanks poster). You can use skygo to watch channels on your laptop or tablet, but I'm not sure if you can stream that feed to a stick in your hdmi port of a tv in another room. (chromecast for example). Delighted to be told otherwise.


CAH706

Original Poster:

1,971 posts

165 months

Thursday 3rd September 2015
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Thanks all.

Id considered using sky go but ideally i want to view on a larger tv and i dont think that can be done.

I think im going to go with the hdmi/cat cable route or try one of the hdmi senders (via powerline)