No TV!

[Hoddo]

Moved into a new house and so far I am unable to get the TV to work.

The house appears to have 3x aerial (2x black and 1x white) running into the lounge. The previous owners ran SKY through this house, I will be running regular freeview + BT Vision.

I have tried all aerials in the back of the TV and auto tuned the TV but I am unable to locate any freeview channels. Is there something obvious I could be forgetting (and yes there is an aerial on the roof)?

Any help or clues appreciated.

[Blakeatron]

To run multiple sky channels in different rooms in our house we had to go through a splitter/booster.

Is there one hidden away somewhere that is not plugged in - or maybe he took it with him!

Have you tried tracing the wires from the dish?

[Simpo Two]

The previous owners may have used only Sky and not had the aerial upgraded or it may even be disconnected.

[Puggit]

Did they leave the dish up? If so, get a FreeSat box instead

[thinfourth2]

Enjoy breaking your addiction to the idiot box?

[GregE240]

I reckon there would have been a booster somewhere that they've taken with them. So somewhere there will be a bunch of disconnected coax cable? Depends where your aerial is?

Good luck!

[E31Shrew]

I would think the two black ones are sat feeds. Are the connectors F types? eg little screw on type connectors? The other cable might be a return feed to put Sky through the house up to the loft, then out again to the rooms.
Is there a dish on the house or did they take that with them??

[Hoddo]

E31Shrew said:

I would think the two black ones are sat feeds. Are the connectors F types? eg little screw on type connectors? The other cable might be a return feed to put Sky through the house up to the loft, then out again to the rooms.
Is there a dish on the house or did they take that with them??

Yep, the connectors are all F type and yes the is still a dish. There is also an aerial on the roof.

Is there a power box or something that I need to press/buy.

In answer to the other question, I've tried tracing the aerial wired but it goes in through the roof and I lose it. Will have another go.

[Laurel Green]

Does the TV have an inbuilt digital decoder? If not, then a decoder will be necessary to pick up the channels. Forgive me for asking such a question, but am assuming the TV was already there.

[Simpo Two]

Laurel Green said:

Does the TV have an inbuilt digital decoder? If not, then a decoder will be necessary to pick up the channels. Forgive me for asking such a question, but am assuming the TV was already there.

Eh? How many people move home and leave the TV behind?

[Laurel Green]

Never heard of renting furnished?

ETA: Just reread the OP and see that 'previous owners' so think I may be barking up the wrong tree, so to speak.

Edited by Laurel Green on Monday 10th October 19:31

[Hoddo]

GregE240 said:

I reckon there would have been a booster somewhere that they've taken with them. So somewhere there will be a bunch of disconnected coax cable? Depends where your aerial is?

Good luck!

coax cable ?

Aerial is on the roof.

[the_ferret82]

my safe money is on all wall connectors are wired to the sat dish / other rooms and the aerial wire was never actually put back on a face plate. common thing to do if the previous owners could not care about the tv aerial.

[Simpo Two]

Hoddo said:

coax cable ?

Might work.

'Here cable, nice cable... where are you cable? I have some nice sweeties...'

[E31Shrew]

Right. So you can now go and buy the ubiquitous Humax Freesat recorder for about £250.00 if you want to record that is and connect the two sat cables to that. Or just connect one sat cable to a Freesat tuner and connect that to your telly.

[Gareth79]

E31Shrew said:

I would think the two black ones are sat feeds. Are the connectors F types? eg little screw on type connectors? The other cable might be a return feed to put Sky through the house up to the loft, then out again to the rooms.
Is there a dish on the house or did they take that with them??

I reckon this is it - the 2x connectors are from the dish, the other cable is the old downlead from the aerial but is now used to go up (although I would expect it to have an aerial socket).

There is probably an amplifier in the roof and the old aerial is disconnected up there. If you want to use it as an aerial unplug the living room from the input, plug it into an output and plug the old aerial back into the input.

If the dish has more than two cables connected then it's probably not done like this.

[DavidY]

The aerial cable behind the TV could have been redirected to use as a multiroom signal.

[Hoddo]

DavidY said:

The aerial cable behind the TV could have been redirected to use as a multiroom signal.

1.) How do I establish if this is the case?

2.) How do I convert it back to the original state?

[dirty boy]

I had a similar problem at my new house.

I wanted to put a tv point in an adjacent room, so drilled through the wall, connected it all up etc...nothing...hmmm

I then went up into the loft to find the coax coiled up on the floor! Should have checked it was connected first I suppose!

[Scotfox]

Hoddo said:

coax cable ?

This :-