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Can I take my Sky+ box & card to another house and watch it normally?
PeronessDS
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Can I take my Sky+ box & card to another house and watch it normally? When I stay at my GF's house can I just unplug my Sky+ box and take it with me and plug it in at her house? She has a normal non sky+ box. I wasnt sure if there was any issues with doing that? It'll read the chanels from the Sky card right i.e. I won't only be able to watch the channels she subscribes to?
Thanks in advance
Thanks in advance
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The Sky+ box (as all Sky boxes) needs a satellite feed to boot up (so cannot be used at a house without one) but just connect it to her dish and all will work as you wish. If she only has a single feed from the dish it will be somewhat restricted in only being able to record one thing.
Just to add that, your box, at her house, with her card in, should allow you to view all but the premium* channels she subscribes to.
*I.E> Sports & Movies.
Although i think the OP was taking HIS box with HIS card.
Why would he put her card in, might as well use her box then
Only if recoding one channel whilst watching another. For watching alone, only one input is needed.
Many thanks BKM. That's great By way of explanation I couldnt remember what wires fed into the box, for some reason I had this idea that my phone line connected to it, and therefore wondered whether the box was 'tied' to my particular phone number. (my phone line is seperate and a BT one)
Thanks CRTHD, good point
It would mean I can record things when using her card, I presume
Ah I see what you mean, if it is just a single satellite input, does that mean I cannot use it at all, or as BKM mentions, I'd only be able to record one program at a time? hmm
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Just to say a big thankyou to you all for taking the time to answer Cheers.
Well it wasn't too clear but I got the impression that perhaps "she" may subscribe to some channels that the OP didn't ("I won't only be able to watch the channels she subscribes to?") so just wanted to point out that he could if he wanted to.
hmm I see your point. As her Sky box is (or looks) like an old one, chances are it is a single sat input..if so, does that mean I'll need a whole new dish/cable or is there some kind of adaptor?
With a single feed (connected to LNB1) a Sky+ box will
1) Boot
2) Allow watching of live TV
3) Record Live TV
4) Play recordings
What it will NOT do (without tricks!) is make "timed recordings" - unless anyone can tell me if Sky+ now HAS a single-LNB mode!
Think you are confusing things and people.
No, you would not be able to record on your box with her card, for many reasons, the main one being you have already stated she doesn't have a + box, just a standard one, so her card won't have the recording features on it anyway.
Even if it did, it would only allow recording of FTA channels, and not subscription channels when put in a different box to the one it belongs to.
As for the telephone connection, this is used for things like ordering Box Office Movies, it is only tied to a phone line when you have multiroom, then ALL boxes on that subscription need connecting to the same working phone line.
http://www.sky.com/shop/customer-shop/box-upgrade/
The other box does NOT have Freeview channels - what it has are the FreesatFromSky (FSFS) channels (Freeview is DTT via an aerial and has a different channel lineup to FSFS). Your card will allow viewing of all non premium channels (i.e. mot Sky Sports or Sky Movies) in any Sky box and if the other box is a Sky+ or HD+ box then it will allow recording of FTA channels (i.e. channels which do not require a card to view).
See here for a fuller explanation of what is possible - http://www.avforums.com/forums/sky-sky/1312207-sky-cards-using-other-sky-boxes-pairing-etc.html
So here goes
Viewing card and box are paired.
If person A has a box but does not subscribe to eg. the movie package, using person B's card which has movies will NOT give movies in Person A's box
If Person B takes their box with card to Person A's house, they could connect it to Person A's cable (always have power turned off when connecting/disconnecting cable.). If only 1 cable, connect it to LNB1 input on B's +/HD box.
Remember however, if Person B tries anything that involves the box phoning Sky, then the Sky systems will recognise that B's box is not where it supposed to be!
Yes, but without a second input running from dish to box she'll only have limited Sky+ functionality.
Not if she has a Sky TV subscription. Yes, if she has no subscription and only watches the free channels.
Thank you - do I have to advise Sky that I ewant to swap the boxes or can I just put her card into my spare Sky+ box at her house? (she has a Sky subscription). Or do I have to phone Sky to "pair" her card with my unused box?