Seeing eye for sky control not working

[Adam B]

Can someone help?

Live in a flat with main satellite in / out etc in the living room and areial sockets in the 2 bedrooms.

I have sky+ HD cables going into sky box and a cable going into (in effect) a satellite out socket in wall, this then feeds terrestrial signal and (on channel 6) the sky signal to the 2 bedrooms.

So I can now which sky in the bedroom/s using just a std aerial lead from TV to TV aerial socket.

Only issue is I have to set sky to the desired channel in living room and then walk into bedroom to watch. I was told by an AV installer any cheap seeing eye thing ie will solve this problem.

I have adjusted the settings in sky+ to make this work, plugged in eye to aerial socket behind bedroom TV but it does not work.

Q1 What am I doing wrong?

Q2 Is it normal to get a mild electric shock from the TV aerial cable that goes in the back of the bedroom TV? I only ask as this might impact Q1

Thanks in advance

[cjs]

There is probably an active (powered) distribution amp splitting the signal from the main TV plate to the bedrooms. This will not pass the Magic Eye DC voltage. You need a specific DC pass distro amp. Have a look in the cupboard on the landing or in the hall.

Or the wall plates may not pass the DC.

[Adam B]

thanks - there is certainly a splitter of some kind in a box in the hallway cupboard but won't be messing about in there

sounds like a typical 10 min job costing me £100 for a call-out

thanks though

[cjs]

You will need to find which leg runs to the bedroom TV, just disconnect each cable until the picture goes. Then disconnect the input and join the two together bypassing the splitter. It means you will lose the feed to the 2nd bedroom. If the distribution is powered then switch this off as you wont need it.

[rusal]

pretty sure the eye will only work if you are connected into the second output nmber 2.
the DC feed from the sky box that powers it when selected in the menu will oly appear on that output and not number 1.