Freesat & Sky

[Flatsix]

Hi,

Hoping to watch Le Mans on Eurosport at w/e without waking everyone.

With that in mind I tried to connect the Sky+ box to the Freesat dish I have set up in the outside office to no avail.

Does this mean that the Freesat system points to a different satellite than Sky does?

They both work attached to their respective dishes.

Thanks and yours in ignorance

G

[cjs]

They both use the same Sat. It should work. Have you got two signal cables at the Freesat position? If only one, have you tried in both inputs of the Sky+ box?

Edited by cjs on Thursday 10th June 09:18

[Flatsix]

cjs said:

They both use the same Sat. It should work. Have you got two signal cables at the Freesat position? If only one, have you tried in both inputs of the Sky+ box?

Edited by cjs on Thursday 10th June 09:18

Hi, yes the freesat has a recorder so the set-up matches the the Sky installation (i.e. two signal cables).

I have tries both the HD and vanilla Sky+ boxes on the freesat dish to no avail. The Freesat decoder (Humax) works fine on the Sky dish.

Do the Sky decoders require a stronger signal than the freesat decoder?

[E31Shrew]

Should be a case of just plugging in and off you go.

[headcase]

You havent accidentally bent the center pin have you?

[Flatsix]

headcase said:

You havent accidentally bent the center pin have you?

Don't think so as I can still plug in the Freesat box and receive piccies.

I'll have another fiddle with it this evening as it were.

[cjs]

Just one point, which I'm sure you have done but anyway, make sure you power up the box after you have connected the f connectors, I have had issues in the past with this.