Help - can't survive the school hols without a TV!
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Ex half installed some stupid distribution unit in the kitchen. It's never worked properly & has caused nothing but problems. Thunderstorm last week knocked the Sky off & I can't get it back on. Please someone help me sort it out! School breaks up tomorrow & without CBeebies I'm screwed!!! I want to either set it up properly so it actually works or get rid of the distribution unit altogether & just have things set up normally like every other sodding house! Please help me try & do it!
So let me try & explain what I have.
In the kitchen is a silver OctavQ Smart Scan thing with 4 buttons on the front with 4 blue LEDs all displaying number 2. On top of that is the Sky HD box, the phone base unit & the O2 wireless box. Behind all of that there is a hole in the wall with 9 grey cables sticking out all of which are just cut at different lengths & don't go anywhere, 2 black cables which I presume are the TV areals (2??) & both go into the back of the Sky box and 1 white cable which goes into a BT Openreach box & then into some phone line extention reel thing. 3 cables come from that into the phone base unit & the O2 box. One more thick brown cable from the hole in the wall tied in a knot doing nothing.
Further below the hole in the wall is another with a thick white cable which is an extention cord. 2 plugs in that, 1 to the distribution unit, one to another extention. 3 plugs in that, one for Sky, one for O2, one for the phone.
Another hole in he floor, 13 grey wires, 11 going nowhere cut at different lengths, 2 going into the distribution box.
Then in the lounge TV is on the wall, 1 HDMI lead coming from the side accross the whole bloody lounge to a small silver OctavQ HDMI Over Ethernet box. From that 2 grey wires into the wall, an infared sensor which doesn't seem to work, and a black power cable into a plug. Then there's the Wii which plugs into the wall & TV but has a dreadful fuzzy picture & loud white noise so pretty useless at the moment.
Another TV in the bedroom which only gets Freeview & goes fuzzy all the time.
Help!!!
So let me try & explain what I have.
In the kitchen is a silver OctavQ Smart Scan thing with 4 buttons on the front with 4 blue LEDs all displaying number 2. On top of that is the Sky HD box, the phone base unit & the O2 wireless box. Behind all of that there is a hole in the wall with 9 grey cables sticking out all of which are just cut at different lengths & don't go anywhere, 2 black cables which I presume are the TV areals (2??) & both go into the back of the Sky box and 1 white cable which goes into a BT Openreach box & then into some phone line extention reel thing. 3 cables come from that into the phone base unit & the O2 box. One more thick brown cable from the hole in the wall tied in a knot doing nothing.
Further below the hole in the wall is another with a thick white cable which is an extention cord. 2 plugs in that, 1 to the distribution unit, one to another extention. 3 plugs in that, one for Sky, one for O2, one for the phone.
Another hole in he floor, 13 grey wires, 11 going nowhere cut at different lengths, 2 going into the distribution box.
Then in the lounge TV is on the wall, 1 HDMI lead coming from the side accross the whole bloody lounge to a small silver OctavQ HDMI Over Ethernet box. From that 2 grey wires into the wall, an infared sensor which doesn't seem to work, and a black power cable into a plug. Then there's the Wii which plugs into the wall & TV but has a dreadful fuzzy picture & loud white noise so pretty useless at the moment.
Another TV in the bedroom which only gets Freeview & goes fuzzy all the time.
Help!!!
hornetrider said:
Regardless of the overall setup - have you switched the Sky HD box off and on again at the wall?
Loads of times. The lights are on but nobody's home. Oh and to change the channel on the TV I had to (when it worked!) go into the kitchen to change channel by the Sky box & crane my neck round the door to see the screen. 
Stupid bloody system!LadyLuck said:
But the aerials are in the kitchen, the TV is in the lounge on the wall. Presumably I need the aerials to plug into the Sky box? Why do I have 2 though??
Duh it's Octava, not OctavQ, stupid illegible logo.
If your box is a Sky Plus HD box, 2 aerials allow 2 channels to be received (watch one, record one).Duh it's Octava, not OctavQ, stupid illegible logo.
If this is the case, the 2 aerials will come from your Sky dish to where they currently come out of the wall. If you can follow the path they take, you may be able to disconnect them from the Sky box and pull them back in to the lounge.
It sounds like a HDMI over cat 5 system, im not familiar with that particular one, the unused grey cables are more than likely cat 5. To fault find you need to break the system down into its component parts and asses what part is working and what part isnt, so for example check the Sky box on an other TV by removing it from where it is an plugging it directly with a scart or hdmi and make sure you can get the 'no satellite signal being received' message. Then check the HDMI over cat 5 units by sending a known good HDMI signal over the system etc..
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