[wiltonwanderer]

I bought one and it works for picture and sound BUT the remote control does not work.

I have the Terrabyte version of the Sky HD box. I use the scart connectors and get picture and sound. There are 3 Infra red sensors and is there any one I should use? I have tried them close to the Sky box and tried pointing them using bluetac. Is there a direction they should point?

Someone mentioned on another old thread switching on scart control. Is this on the sky box?

Has anyone managed to get the Sky remote control to work in another room using a Tevion video sender on a Sky HD box?

[Stevenage Neil]

A cursory glance, three posts above yours, as we speak, would have found this: http://www.avforums.com/forums/sky-s...ice-versa.html

[wiltonwanderer]

I must be missing something as I do not see the relevance of the link you have posted which is to do with reprogramming of a Sky+ remote control. I do not want to do that, I just want to take my sky remote into the spare room, point it at the Tevion video sender receiving unit and expect it will operate my Sky box in the lounge using the IR little cable, plugged into the Tevion transmitter which is pointing at my Sky box and held in place with Bluetac !

Thanks for your help.

Cheers

[Stevenage Neil]

Originally Posted by wiltonwanderer

. I just want to take my sky remote into the spare room, point it at the Tevion video sender receiving unit and expect it will operate my Sky box in the lounge....

Which is not what you originally posted..........

Originally Posted by wiltonwanderer

Has anyone managed to get the Sky remote control to work in another room using a Tevion video sender on a Sky HD box?

[logiciel]

Originally Posted by wiltonwanderer

There are 3 Infra red sensors
Someone mentioned on another old thread switching on scart control

Hi and welcome to the forum.
We need more information about this particular videosender.
They don't usually have separate IR sensors, so can you check whether that's what they are?
At a guess they're actually emitters, for attaching one close to the receptor on the Sky machine.
You can check whether they're emitting by looking at them on the screen of a digital camera while someone works the Sky remote control in the other room - they should show up as emitting flashes of light.
Scart control is for a different system and doesn't come into this.

[wiltonwanderer]

Sorry I get the terminology mixed up. They must be emittors. It is just one long thin wire that goes from the Tevion transmitter and has 3 small rectangular plastic 'emittors' attached in series, so I assume they can each be used to control 3 devices, such as satellite box, dvd player etc. I do not know what direction they need to point, I have tried a few directions and positions. But as I am not getting a flicker of anything working, I assume there may be a technical issue of them working with a Sky+ HD box? I will try your digital camera screen tip after work tonight. - thanks !

[grahamlthompson]

You just stick them on the IR receiver on each box. You can probably find this by firing the original remote through a bogroll tube pressed up against the box front face and moving it around.

[logiciel]

That's OK and thanks for the clarification.
On the current Sky PVRs the receptor is in the centre below the logo.
Usually the sender unit itself sends the IR strongly enough so that you don't need to use an emitter.
Do the camera test both on the unit and on the emitters and let us know the result.

[wiltonwanderer]

I have finally got through to the right person who knows about the product on the Medion telephone support line and he told me that it will not work with Sky HD boxes as they use a different technology for their IR hardware to the Tevion system.

Thanks for trying to help. A very useful Forum. I still need a non coax wired solutiion to watch my Sky box in another room using the Sky Remote.

Any suggestions?

Meanwhile.... Back to Aldi to get my money back.

[grahamlthompson]

Google

video sender compatible with sky hd

[logiciel]

I do vaguely remember now that this has come up before, but the Google search doesn't actually find much about it.
It doesn't make much sense and I'd be interested to know about these "different technologies" and why the "Tevion system" would be different from any other - as all other extenders that I know work just the same on Sky machines as any others.

ww:
The previous version of this one worked for me
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Philex-27995...&sr=8-15-spell
and there are plenty more if you want to spend a bit more such as
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Qose-5-8Ghz-...7251493&sr=8-4

[davemurgatroyd2]

Originally Posted by logiciel

I do vaguely remember now that this has come up before, but the Google search doesn't actually find much about it.
It doesn't make much sense and I'd be interested to know about these "different technologies" and why the "Tevion system" would be different from any other - as all other extenders that I know work just the same on Sky machines as any others.

ww:
The previous version of this one worked for me
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Philex-27995...&sr=8-15-spell
and there are plenty more if you want to spend a bit more such as
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Qose-5-8Ghz-...7251493&sr=8-4

As well as the code tables for the two or three different types of Sky boxes (standard, Sky+ and HD) depending on remote type there are 4 different modes of IR operation. The latest HD+ boxes do not respond to all these modes and some infra-red extension devices do not pass through the required mode. This is not the first time that some remote extenders and magic eyes have proved incompatible with Sky's remotes - I can certainly remember this happening with magic eyes from one manufacturer and Sky+ boxes and it has been posted before on this forum that some IR extenders are incompatible with the latest HD+ boxes.

[BIONIC MAN]

I Had some of there older ones and they didn't work to well

[niall campbell]

A video sender with 4 channels may help you out

Do you have a terrestial signal to your bedroom from an aerial outside the room ?

I

[logiciel]

Originally Posted by davemurgatroyd2

some infra-red extension devices do not pass through the required mode
some remote extenders and magic eyes have proved incompatible
it has been posted before on this forum that some IR extenders are incompatible

That's what Tevion are admitting about their devices, and I'd be interested to hear what others it applies to.
Surely "magic eyes" aren't affected as they're not the same as wireless IR extenders?
Yes, it was here that I remember the matter arising but I didn't venture on a forum search to find out just when.
n c: They all have a choice of channels but that doesn't involve this specific problem.

[davemurgatroyd2]

Originally Posted by logiciel

That's what Tevion are admitting about their devices, and I'd be interested to hear what others it applies to.
Surely "magic eyes" aren't affected as they're not the same as wireless IR extenders?

Yes in exactly the same way - magic eyes convert the infra-red signals to an RF signal and transmit it down the coax cable and the others convert the IR signals to an RF signal and transmit it wirelessly. Different transmission frequencies but the same principle and yes it did happen with at least one brand of magic eyes when Sky+ boxes were introduced.