Hi I've seen lots of threads bout using a magic eye to watch sky in another room from a box I downstairs for example, Am I right in thinking as long as you connect the sky had box to the TV socket in the wall and the magic eye to the socket upstairs it should work? Or am I completely wrong?!

Thanks in advance

The sky box rf2 output has to be connected by coax to the remote magic eye (it's coax output connects to the remote TV). Any intermediate connections must be able to pass 9V direct current which the Sky box sends to power the Magic Eye, and the dc output option must be on (ie you can't use isolated wall boxes). The Magic Eye is only required to allow the sky box to be remotely controlled. The single PAL analogue TV channel that is output by the Sky box can be viewed on a remote TV using it's analogue tuner whethet the magic eye is present or not. If you connect your normal aerial to RF1 in, then the digital channels it provides will also appear on rf2 out so you only need a single cable for te sky box and your local terrestrial digital services.

In this case the UHF channel that the sky box modulator used for the analogue channel must not clash with one from your local transmitter.

It depends on a number of factors.

The aerial wall plates could be wired back to some sort of splitter device which feeds the TV aerial to the various rooms. So all wall plates would be outputs of that splitter and probably have no signal path between them for the magic eye signals.

So simply plugging in the Sky box at one plate and the magic eye at the other is very unlikely to work. Not to mention the RF signal from the Sky box probably won't get through either, or be unwatchable if it does.

How you get round this depends on whether you have an aerial on the roof or in the loft that is used to provide Freeview round the house. If so do you want to retain this? And also just what, if any, splitter device is used wherever all the cables come together.

If you have an aerial and want to keep it then that could involve running another length of coax cable from the aerial down to the living room. This then goes to the RF in on the Sky box. You then replug the existing living room feed from the output of the splitter to the aerial IN on the splitter. And finally plug a lead from the RF 2 out (on older boxes or just the RF out on the optional dongle newer boxes use) to the wall plate.

This will then feed the aerial and the output of the Sky box to all the other TVs. If the splitter device is the correct type it may also pass the magic eye signals as well. If not it may need some sort of bypass kit to feed these signals to the appropriate room feed. Or change the splitter to one that is compatible with magic eye devices.

If you don't want the TV aerial feed life is a bit simpler. You just locate the two room feeds and plug them together directly, might need a coupler to achieve this. So in effect you make a continuous cable run from living room to bedroom. Done right no reason why that shouldn't work.

Or you could just run a bit of coax directly from living room to bedroom, plug on end into the Sky box and the other via the magic eye into the bedroom TV and bypass all the internal distribution entirely. Though that is likely to be a less elegant solution and may not go down too well with the rest of the household...

But just plugging in, crossing your fingers and hoping most probably won't work

If a magic eye does not work, A (more expensive) solution would be use of a harmony hub. The hub sends IR signals to nearby sky box. Signals are sent via WiFi using a smartphone app. You can be in any rooms to control hub. I think you can control up to 3 devices eg a free view box or a dvd player as well

See

http://mobile.logitech.com/en-gb/pro...y-ultimate-hub