Bluetooth Aerial Connection
Discussion
If you wish to connect your TV to a standard rooftop tv aerial, to watch basic Freeview and the like, but your TV is at the other side of the room from the aerial socket in the wall, can you connect by bluetooth to avoid running aerial cable for miles. So basically, a bluetooth thingy plugged into the socket in the wall and one plugged into the aerial input on the back of your telly, and those two linked by bluetooth?
Yes, well 'sort of'.
You'd need to 'receive' the TV signal with perhaps a set-top box or HDD recorder, then fling the video signal across the room using something like this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wireless-Transmitter-Rece...
(an HDMI bluetooth transmitter receiver pair)
It might be easier to try an indoor tv aerial.
How well it would work, I don't know.
Bluetooth won't carry the zillions of TV channels at your aerial, but it can do one channel of video over a limited range.
Subject to interference, blocking etc etc.
You'd need to 'receive' the TV signal with perhaps a set-top box or HDD recorder, then fling the video signal across the room using something like this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wireless-Transmitter-Rece...
(an HDMI bluetooth transmitter receiver pair)
It might be easier to try an indoor tv aerial.
How well it would work, I don't know.
Bluetooth won't carry the zillions of TV channels at your aerial, but it can do one channel of video over a limited range.
Subject to interference, blocking etc etc.
TwigtheWonderkid said:
OK guys, many thanks.
I feel like going into old man mode......we put man on the moon but we can't have a wireless tv aerial connection.
Apart from the technical explanation that Bluetooth just doesn't have the data capacity, the other reason why you can't have a wireless aerial link is it's illegal. That's not a made up reason. It's true. I feel like going into old man mode......we put man on the moon but we can't have a wireless tv aerial connection.
A wireless aerial link would be a form of broadcasting. The only people allowed to do that for TV signals are those running the UKs transmitter network.
Using a Freeview receiver to tune in to one channel and then frequency shifting that to use a 2.4GHz or 5GHz video sender is the way to go here. But honestly, it's often cheaper and always more reliable to run an RF extension cable or have an aerial installed to serve the remote location.
Lucid_AV said:
Apart from the technical explanation that Bluetooth just doesn't have the data capacity, the other reason why you can't have a wireless aerial link is it's illegal. That's not a made up reason. It's true.
A wireless aerial link would be a form of broadcasting. The only people allowed to do that for TV signals are those running the UKs transmitter network.
Using a Freeview receiver to tune in to one channel and then frequency shifting that to use a 2.4GHz or 5GHz video sender is the way to go here. But honestly, it's often cheaper and always more reliable to run an RF extension cable or have an aerial installed to serve the remote location.
The issue is actually you can only transmit legally in certain bands, at certain max power levels.A wireless aerial link would be a form of broadcasting. The only people allowed to do that for TV signals are those running the UKs transmitter network.
Using a Freeview receiver to tune in to one channel and then frequency shifting that to use a 2.4GHz or 5GHz video sender is the way to go here. But honestly, it's often cheaper and always more reliable to run an RF extension cable or have an aerial installed to serve the remote location.
2.4 and 5 GHz are the most useful bands for licence free transmission.
Broadcasting is distinct from 'Transmission'. I have a licence to transmit on some bands, but I may not 'Broadcast' which means transmitting continuously to unknown recipients as opposed to exchanging messages with one or a few other licence holders.
There's nothing to stop you broadcasting in a licence free band at 10mW or whatever the limit is, except it won't generally get very far.
The devices described don't just 'frequency shift' a TV signal, they receive it, decode it and encode it over a Bluetooth or other RF link.
It's a problem that the 2.4GHz band is heavily used in many places, Wifi, Bluetooth and other stuff all in the same band.
An indoor aerial works for a lot of people.
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