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New home - which distribution system?
screeched
29-07-2014
After a bit of advice...

We've just purchased a new home and are refusing to pay the £350 to install a TV aerial. Anyway, we have the following setup:

Living room - quadplexed plate with Sat1, Sat2, TV, FM/DAB, Return, Telephone
Bedroom - quadplexed plate with Sat1, Sat2, TV, FM/DAB, Return, Telephone
Study - single screened TV outlet

In the loft I have a bunch of un-terminated cable.

Ideally I want to wire up something that meets the following requirements:

Living room - 2 x satellite feeds, TV feed, FM/DAB feed. Not at all interested in return feeds.
Bedroom - 2 x satellite feeds, TV feed. Less interested in FM/DAB here and again not interested in return feed.
Study - TV feed

Worth pointing out that as present there is no power in the loft space.

Just after some advice on what to go for. Have taken a look at both Labgear and Triax and can't see how either can provide 2 x SAT feeds to more than one room.

Thanks
grahamlthompson
29-07-2014
A tad confused, there is no way you can provide a TV feed to a TV that presumably has a Freeview tuner, without an aerial.

The basics are

With a conventional lnb the largest number of outlets is 8 (that will allow twin feeds to 4 locations). You can use one of the cables to each location to triplex Satellite, UHF Digital TV and DAB/FM to each location.

Lack of a power supply in the loft shouldn't be an issue, you can send power up one of the coax cables from a power supply using a power supply unit inserted in one of the coax feeds.
screeched
29-07-2014
Sorry, I should have added that I do plan to install a TV aerial in the loft and will at some point also have a dish with quad lnb, I.e freeview and freesat. My concerns were whether I could send two sat feeds to more than one room. It sounds like I can, I just need to find the right loft box to do so.

Thanks for the pointer on power, hadn't thought of that.
screeched
29-07-2014
Actually, I think the Triax 333112 will do it. Would anyone be able to validate the following:

In loft:
Install Triax 333112
Connect tv aerial to UHF1 in
Connect dab aerial to DAB in
Connect fm aerial to FM in
Connect each lnb connection 1 through 4 to sat 1, sat 2, sat 3, sat 4 in

In lounge:
Connect downlink output on 333112 to sat1 in on wall plate
Connect uplink/sat2 on 333112 to uplink/sat2 on wall plate

In bedroom:
Connect r/tv7+sat3 and r/tv8+sat4 on 333112 to the two wall plate connections

In study:
Abandon tv here, use the tv only wall plate to feed the power supply up to the box in the loft.

From what I can gather this should work but would render the uplink port in the bedroom useless (I don't need that anyway). It would also mean no tv in the study.

Thanks
soulboy77
30-07-2014
Originally Posted by screeched:
“Sorry, I should have added that I do plan to install a TV aerial in the loft and will at some point also have a dish with quad lnb, I.e freeview and freesat. My concerns were whether I could send two sat feeds to more than one room. It sounds like I can, I just need to find the right loft box to do so.”

Have you undone the 'quadplexed' plates to see what cabling is actually behind? I would usually expect the TV/FM/DAB to be combined but the Sat feeds each to be independent i.e. one cable to end up at each respective lnb on the dish.

I usually steer clear of combining the Sat feeds into a Loft box (dist. amp), that's not to say that it can't be done with the right device.
niall campbell
30-07-2014
I just use a tv aerial point for FM reception and DAB

You can also buy a powered HDMI splitter ( 1 in & 2 or 3 out ) and run up to 25 metres of HDMI cable to have picture perfect sky

Just use RF 2 out from sky box and a magic eye to change channels and piggy back Freeview signal
Winston_1
31-07-2014
Originally Posted by screeched:
“


Ideally I want to wire up something that meets the following requirements:

Living room - 2 x satellite feeds, TV feed, FM/DAB feed. Not at all interested in return feeds.
Bedroom - 2 x satellite feeds, TV feed. Less interested in FM/DAB here and again not interested in return feed.
Study - TV feed”

So you need 4 satellite feeds, 3 TV aerial feeds, and one FM/DAB feed.

One satellite dish with a quad LNB will give the satellite feeds. You need a TV aerial, FM aerial and DAB aerial. Depending on the signal level you either need a 3 way passive splitter or 3 output low gain amplifier connected to the TV aerial. You also need a triplexer to combine the FM and DAB aerials to the one output of the splitter or amp that is feeding the living room.
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