HDMI splitters/ethernet etc...

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Looking for a bit of advice please. In my living room is a big 4k UHD TV, a TV point, a freeview recorder box, a blu ray, and 4 ports of Cat6 ethernet (although it's only CCA cable)

In my downstairs loo is a comms cabinet, 48 port patch panel and a 10/100 switch.

Here's the issue I'm trying to solve...in my kitchen is a small 20" TV, 4 x Cat6 ports, and a crap indoor aeriel box that doesn't really work.

What I want to be able to do is basically watch whatever the living room freeview box is tuned to, on the kitchen TV. I think it needs to go something like this...

HDMI splitter plugged into the back of the freeview box. On the splitter, one HDMI lead goes to the living room TV. The other one has a HDMI to ethernet adaptor.
2 x cat6 cables from the adaptor to the wall sockets, call them port 1 and 2 for clarity.
At the patch panel, patch ports 1 and 2 direct to ports 3 and 4 (the kitchen ports for clarity). Do not patch in the switch.
In the kitchen, ports 3 and 4 to another HDMI splitter and then into the kitchen TV.

Will this work? And if so any recommendations for reasonably priced splitters and adaptors?

And to double check, the single RJ45 socket on the back of the freeview box is just for network connectivity...it won't serve as an AV output I take it?

Thanks in advance!

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Thanks for that...however looks expensive to be honest.

Would my splitters setup described above not do the same job for a fraction of the cost?

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Cheers for all the replies guys.

Megaphone...looks interesting. How, in practical terms, does the IR thing work? Do I need to put the IR dongle in front of the freeview box in my living room? Do I then need to carry the freeview remote through to the kitchen, or will basic channel up/down work from the kitchen TV remote? Or can I just order a duplicate freeview remote and keep it in the kitchen?

KamSandhu44, the HDMI cable is 1m long, and is a Sondstrom gold item.

Just probably worth pointing out that the number of netowrk cables is not an issue. I built the house, and thanks to PH advice, I installed 6 Cat6 ports behind the TV. 3 are currently taken up by the Blu-Ray, TV and Freeview box, but I still have 3 spare...although I do see the attraction of thus solution only needing to use 1.

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Thanks again all. Megaphone, I think your option is probably the best so far, as all I'm trying to achieve here is getting past the lack of TV aerial socket in the kitchen (oversight of mine when I built the house!) The other rooms (dining room/bedroom) all have sockets so we're good there.

Quite like the idea of being able to change channel too, and a spare remote is only about £20.

Thanks!

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chrisga said:

Are you trying to get past the lack of TV aerial socket in the kitchen or achieve what you said in first post of mirroring the TV in the lounge? Two quite different things I guess.

If you just want to watch TV in the kitchen couldn't you just buy an amazon firestick for £25 or a now tv box and load the TV app and watch TV channels over wifi? Won't necessarily give you as many channels as freeview but you'd get the basics. Its what we've done as we forgot the aerial in the bedroom but having said that I think the TV upstairs has been on a max of about 5 times in over a year!

Oh and I guess that way you can watch different channels in the two rooms should you not decide what to watch....

Hi mate...

I've got a Firestick on the kitchen telly already but to be honest using that to watch BBC news in the mornings is a PITA by the time it's woken up and you've navigated the iPlayer.

If both downstairs TVs are showing the same that's great...works nicely if you've nipping in and out of the living room doing some cooking, and if we want to actually watch different things of an evening we'll just use the bedroom TV.

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Guys

Still not ordered anything yet! I won't explain all the details/reasoning here but is it possible in some way to get a gadget that would allow me to have my freevie box HDMI outlet split to multiple TVs in different rooms over CAT6e? Ideally I want...

Living room TV direct feed from freeview box
Kitchen TV
Ceiling mounted projector in media room

Is this possible? ForeLeft's suggestion looks good, however it relies on coax, not ethernet...

Thanks