Is it possible to set up multi-room without paying Sky the £10 a month cost?

I have a regular Sky dish and box in the lounge and currently use a TV sender unit to beam the signal upstairs to the office room TV, but now Im using wireless broadband this inteferes with the sender signal.

I have a spare sky box and sky viewing card, can I set this up in the office? Is it possible to connect like multi-room? If it can be done how?

Thanks

 

When I went multi-room they had to register the card as a multi-room card.. Before I got it registered it just acted like a free view box....

 

You could wire it - You could pop it out through the coax output on the sky box and then into the TV in whatever room.

If you want to do it properly - - Put in a Coax socket in the wall by the sky box and channel it in the wall though to whatever rooms you want it in - Then you just plug the aerial lead in and tune the telly in.

Of course this means you are stuck with whatever channel the skybox has on.

 

Which totally defeats the object of "multiroom".

 

yes you can. you will need 2 satellite boxes that are linux based and become a member of a card sharing group. as the channel is chosen on either box it uses your internet connection to access the card share server, downloads what ever code it needs to clear the channel. sky are the worst for needing codes. a server can be hit every 7-8 seconds by all user who are viewing sky at the time. but it is possible to have 100s share one sky card. all original cards can be shared, Taquilla, ABSat, D+, Canal+, Digitalb and numerous other educational channels that start after midnight

 

Is this true! I didn't realise you could even get a CI for a PC based DVB card that could handle Sky even with a legit card!

 

yes we have a couple of skystar1 and skystar2 cards on our share

 

pm me details on what i need to do please

 

Sounds interesting, but whats linux based?

I plugged in the spare sky box yesterday, connected it to the phone line, and ran a scart lead from the box to the TV, but it said no signal! Would seem like I need to run a ariel cable from the either the dish or the where it comes thru the wall in the lounge.

 

a linux based satellite receiver such as Dreambox 7020 or the Relook 400 or dreambox 500.
seehere for Dreambox or here for the Relook 400.

I own all of these boxes and all have their pros and cons. The Relook 400 is superb but has nowhere near the number of images available as say the dreambox.

 

Christian i will check and see if we have the skystar cards up and running but i dont forsee any problems. All the decoding on these cards is done in emulation and uses the speed of the computer to run the emus

 

Each receiver requires it's own LNB feed. If you have an old Sky install the LNB will probably only have one output so you'd need to replace that and run a new cable to the new receiver.

 

Except that the inital post mentioned he was sending the Sky via a wireless digital sender - which would also mean the sky channel was fixed by the box in the main room.

What I posted was a wired alternative.

 

Interesting stuff. I remember emulating a Sky card years and years ago using a PC