yoza

We have SKY downstairs and upstairs, now the upstairs one wont change channel.

We have a mouse looking thing that you point the remote at, it plugs in piggyback stylee to the aerial. This used to have a little red light on it, now it hasnt.

Is it fooked ? What is it called ? Does it have a battery ? Where to buy another? How much ?

The downstairs one changes fine.

Should SKY give me another free....?

Thanks in advance.

Hurry up its doing my head in.

Later BRAINS.

Beastie

iTrader: (2)

The mouse gets a 12 v supply from the sky box through the coaxial cable. Check that both ends are and plugs are tight on the cable and correctly connected.
Also check in the sky box user settings that the 12Volts is switched on for the second output socket.

sti-04!!

The magic eye

Its not battery powered

HTH

Buy one & dont be tight IIRC they are about £20

Stephen

King RA

I used to have the same problem, give both ends a wiggle.

yoza

http://www.simplydigital.co.uk/acata...cessories.html

Thanks, panic over, cheap as chips....

yoza

How does a coaxial connector work.

The hairy copper bits dont touch nothing...........do they ?

The middle copper wire goes into the pin, thingie.

A fcukin simple job turns into a nightmare........

I only pulled it out of the TV to get the magic eye off, and the feckin end stayed in the tele.......FFS.

Whats that site called..........were they explain how thing work ?

HELP...

PG

Is the 2nd RF outlet switched on in the settings ?
Has the box powered down in the last while ?

minor_threat

Pull end out of telly, then . . . http://www.diydoctor.org.uk/projects/TV.htm

PG

the "hairy bit" is the earth and shouldnt touch the centre
from the bottom:
screw bit
clamp for "hairy bit"
plastic bit with the bit for the core of the cable
outer

PG

beaten to it

yoza

Thanks MT.

PG... Yes it went off during the Everton game, so we phoned up SKY who gave my GF instructions as to what to do.

She did turn it on and off, along with a few other things, I shall ask when she gets in.

I hope she has fcuked it up, another excuse for a fight..

Ive just followed MT link, and the picture is back...fine, now the stupid question.

If the hairy bits do **** all, what are they there for ?...Show...Grrr

ChristianR

iTrader: (1)

hmm.. here is a question.. say if you have your tv on downstairs and sky on, can u change channels upstairs?

as mine used to work, but recently, i have to have the tv on downstairs for me to be able to change channels upstairs on sky.. bizarre.

yoza

Nearly as bizarre as me running up and down the stairs, remote in hand, in me boxies, to turn the feckin channel over.

I used to pi55 myself laughin at my Dads video remote...it was on a lead to the actual unit........but at least it feckin worked.

minor_threat

I wondered that! On that link I gave you it says the middle core of wire carries the signal and the hairy sharp bits shield the inner wire/signal from electromagnetic interference . . . learn something new every day!

PG

yoza
try the following to see if RF2 is on.

Services
system set up
press "0" then "1"
select
then check the RF settings from there

Kevin Groat

This site is very helpful - if you also go back up a level there's loads of interesting help for tv and satellite stuff

http://www.satcure.co.uk/tech/tvlink.htm

yoza

Cheers all.

Ive tried all the above, and the Magic eye is kapuut, new one tomorrow.

So we shall see, with a bit of luck.

PG

hit it with a big hammer ?

yoza

I thought that.

Then I thought........buy a new one, put the fcuked one back in the bag and take it back.