Hi - hope somebody can help... I have just had a conservatory built and they put a TV aerial point in there -which they connected to my sky dish. This fine as i can watch sky in there but my question is how can i watch the chanels on the TV not through sky? For example if i was watching the footy in the lounge on sky how could the wife watch coronation street in the conservatory? I do not have multi room. Hope this all makes sense. Thanks
Picking up Freeview in a room with Sky
I think you are confused. The aerial cable in your conservatory will most likely be connected to the Sky boxes rf2 out socket not the dish. If it was connected to the dish you would need a seperate satellite tuner in the conservatory.
If you look at the back of the Sky box there will be 3 normal TV (Belling Lee) connections. You need to remove the aerial from the TV and put it in the Sky box Rf in connection. Connect the TV to RF1 out with a standard female to male coax patch lead. The feed to your conservatory should be connected to rf2 out.
The TV in the conservatory will now have access to all the channels coming from your aerial digital (and analogue if you still have the service).
The sky signal is output as a normal analogue TV channel tunable by an analogue tuner. The rest are tuned by the TV in the normal way.
If you get interference using the sky signal the uhf channel it's using may need altering.
If you look at the back of the Sky box there will be 3 normal TV (Belling Lee) connections. You need to remove the aerial from the TV and put it in the Sky box Rf in connection. Connect the TV to RF1 out with a standard female to male coax patch lead. The feed to your conservatory should be connected to rf2 out.
The TV in the conservatory will now have access to all the channels coming from your aerial digital (and analogue if you still have the service).
The sky signal is output as a normal analogue TV channel tunable by an analogue tuner. The rest are tuned by the TV in the normal way.
If you get interference using the sky signal the uhf channel it's using may need altering.
I would have thought that if there was an aerial available it would have been connected via the Sky box anyway by whoever installed the feed into the conservatory? If they were doing the job properly that is.
Which sort of begs the question, is there an aerial to connect to in the first place?
Which sort of begs the question, is there an aerial to connect to in the first place?
Originally Posted by chrisjr:
“I would have thought that if there was an aerial available it would have been connected via the Sky box anyway by whoever installed the feed into the conservatory? If they were doing the job properly that is.
Which sort of begs the question, is there an aerial to connect to in the first place?”
“I would have thought that if there was an aerial available it would have been connected via the Sky box anyway by whoever installed the feed into the conservatory? If they were doing the job properly that is.
Which sort of begs the question, is there an aerial to connect to in the first place?”
I hope the OP realises that an aerial is required to watch freeview as the thread title suggests. You have a lot more faith in installers than I do having seen the mess that they have left.
