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Sky + to Humax Foxsat
Morning,
Just replaced my setup as above. Have searched a couple of similar previous threads but just want to be sure. I now have nowhere to plug in the aerial in and rf out leads that previously went in the back of my sky+ box. I have a black box thing attached to the side of my house which I assume is some sort of splitter. It was fitted to put extra points in the house for 3 other tv's. I could watch the sky in these other rooms but obviously now can't. Not that bothered about that but have also lost connection to the normal house aerial and do can't get the freeview on those tv's which I am bothered about. What should I do with the 2 leads which previously went into the sky box? Do I need a rf modulator or something. As above only really concerned with making the other tv's get the connection to my normal aerial again for the freeview. Thanks v much. |
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Morning,
Just replaced my setup as above. Have searched a couple of similar previous threads but just want to be sure. I now have nowhere to plug in the aerial in and rf out leads that previously went in the back of my sky+ box. I have a black box thing attached to the side of my house which I assume is some sort of splitter. It was fitted to put extra points in the house for 3 other tv's. I could watch the sky in these other rooms but obviously now can't. Not that bothered about that but have also lost connection to the normal house aerial and do can't get the freeview on those tv's which I am bothered about. What should I do with the 2 leads which previously went into the sky box? Do I need a rf modulator or something. As above only really concerned with making the other tv's get the connection to my normal aerial again for the freeview. Thanks v much. |
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Thanks for that. Have bought an universal modulator but still can't get it to work. Have attached the scart from the VCR bit of the humax to the mod and the aerial in and rf connector to the mod but still my tv's can't see it. I have the 8 point switch set to number 8 only which I think is the test.
Any assistance most gratefully received. Thanks. |
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Thanks for that. Have bought an universal modulator but still can't get it to work. Have attached the scart from the VCR bit of the humax to the mod and the aerial in and rf connector to the mod but still my tv's can't see it. I have the 8 point switch set to number 8 only which I think is the test.
Any assistance most gratefully received. Thanks. |
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Thanks again. By the 8 way switch I just mean the thing on in the modulator which allows you to select the channel you want from 21-69.
My problem is though that the other tv's can't see anything and therefore I have lost my freeview in the other rooms (those tv's have inbuilt freeview) They don't seem to be connected at all to the aerial since unplugginlg the sky. Lack of cbeebies causing me a headache (for my lad) Is this normal or will it only work once I have got the other tv's picking up the humax signal. At the moment whatever I try on the modulator the other tv's don't see anything on the auto tune on both normal aerial and the freeview?? Thanks once again in advance. |
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Thanks again. By the 8 way switch I just mean the thing on in the modulator which allows you to select the channel you want from 21-69.
My problem is though that the other tv's can't see anything and therefore I have lost my freeview in the other rooms (those tv's have inbuilt freeview) They don't seem to be connected at all to the aerial since unplugginlg the sky. Lack of cbeebies causing me a headache (for my lad) Is this normal or will it only work once I have got the other tv's picking up the humax signal. At the moment whatever I try on the modulator the other tv's don't see anything on the auto tune on both normal aerial and the freeview?? Thanks once again in advance. Look at this diagram which shows a hdr with a modulator working with a sky box. In your case you need to split the incoming aerial preferably with a plug in amp that sends one output to your TV and the other to the modulator input. http://www.4shared.com/file/10237806...RFDigaram.html |
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Thanks for your continued assistance & patience. Think I am being a bit thick. I thought the modulator would just do what the old sky box did. The aerial in cable and the rf one both cone from outside into my living room. The living room tv is only connected to the foxsat.
I assume the aerial in comes straight from the roof and the other cable goes into the splitter on the side of the house that in turn drives the extra aerial points. I have set the modulator to ch 68 (the old sky box default) and still nothing. I thought simply plugging these 2 cables into the mod and attaching the mod to the humax via scart would sort it. If I can't get cbeebies back soon am in trouble! |
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Thanks for your continued assistance & patience. Think I am being a bit thick. I thought the modulator would just do what the old sky box did. The aerial in cable and the rf one both cone from outside into my living room. The living room tv is only connected to the foxsat.
I assume the aerial in comes straight from the roof and the other cable goes into the splitter on the side of the house that in turn drives the extra aerial points. I have set the modulator to ch 68 (the old sky box default) and still nothing. I thought simply plugging these 2 cables into the mod and attaching the mod to the humax via scart would sort it. If I can't get cbeebies back soon am in trouble! eg http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RF-MODULATOR_W...item20ac450c77 |
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Thanks. Think the modulator is a bit duff. All works fine with the 2 leads simply plugged into the old sky box. Have taken the mod back although I now have both the humax and the sky plugged in which seems a bit daft. Unless there is anything else useful I could use the sky box for? Ideally I would flog the sky box.
Haven even tried plugging an old vcr in but that doesn't seem to work either. |
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Thanks. Think the modulator is a bit duff. All works fine with the 2 leads simply plugged into the old sky box. Have taken the mod back although I now have both the humax and the sky plugged in which seems a bit daft. Unless there is anything else useful I could use the sky box for? Ideally I would flog the sky box.
Haven even tried plugging an old vcr in but that doesn't seem to work either. |
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Thanks again. Would attaching the humax to the sky box allow the humax to be viewed on the other tv's? At the moment the only thing the sky box is attached to is the aerial in and rf out cable. Cheers
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Yes plug the vcr scart lead from the humax into the sky box vcr scart and put it in sby. Pretty sure this routes the vcr scart on the sky box to rf1 and rf2 out.
To the OP does connecting the two coax cables together that plugged into the Sky box's RF input and RF 2 output restore Freeview to the other rooms? If it doesn't you have damaged those cables or loosened the connectors on them. |
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Have restored the freeview in the other rooms just by having the 2 leads plugged into the sky box so am happy other than the fact I have the sky box still plugged in alongside the humax which seems a bit of a waste, probably should just re route my main aeria direct to the other tv's for the freeview.
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Have restored the freeview in the other rooms just by having the 2 leads plugged into the sky box so am happy other than the fact I have the sky box still plugged in alongside the humax which seems a bit of a waste, probably should just re route my main aeria direct to the other tv's for the freeview.
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Have just tried that but no joy. Would have been a great solution for me. Wonder if anything to do with the black box on the side of the house that the rf out goes to. Does it need power or something to it that the sky box provides? Not sure what it is other than it has "x140" on the outside of it. Don't fancy the ladders in this weather. Cheers.
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Have just tried that but no joy. Would have been a great solution for me. Wonder if anything to do with the black box on the side of the house that the rf out goes to. Does it need power or something to it that the sky box provides? Not sure what it is other than it has "x140" on the outside of it. Don't fancy the ladders in this weather. Cheers.
Unfortunately Freesat boxes are lacking a lot of basic features that Sky boxes have - is it the HDR you've bought?, or just the standard box? - if it's just the standard box you could have just kept the Sky box as FreeSat From Sky. |
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Is the HDR. I quite like the box so far. Think I will just have to run the aerial direct to the other points. Not bothered about watching the humax in the other rooms although would have been nice if it had all the connections for a smooth transition. My fault for not checking properly.
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Is the HDR. I quite like the box so far. Think I will just have to run the aerial direct to the other points. Not bothered about watching the humax in the other rooms although would have been nice if it had all the connections for a smooth transition. My fault for not checking properly.
L26BB from Maplin at £13.99 should be suitable. http://maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=44214 |
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Thanks v much. Will look at that.
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