Timmy C
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I'll try and keep this brief but don't want to miss out any important detail so sorry if it's a long read for a simple question.
I ditched Sky and now have a centrally located Youview box (BT 2100) feeding TV's all around the house via HDMI extender/CAT5 baluns. The box is controlled with 'magic eyes' that feed through an SLX coax distribution amp, with an Omnilink IR signal extender kit located near the Youview box. The main Aerial feed goes directly into the youview box and all worked fine.
However, I wanted to split the aerial feed before it goes into the Youview box to feed a bedroom TV that's not connected up with the HDMI Cat 6 extension system, so bought a cheap coax splitter from ebay (see link). Aerial feed now comes down from roof, in to the splitter then one feed out to Youview and other to bedroom TV. Picture is fine in both cases and signal strength looks good according to the Youview box signal check.
The problem is, when I now point a remote at a magic eye and press a button, I get a brief picture break up so it would seem the IR signal is now somehow upsetting the Youview box. Before anyone suggests it, I don't want to use the RF out on the Youview box as it's disabled when the box sleeps unless you leave the box in high power mode 24/7 which I'm keen to avoid with todays energy prices!
My question is, have I bought a cheap rubbish splitter that's causing the issue or is it the way I have it set up that just isn't going to work? This is the one I have tried....
I ditched Sky and now have a centrally located Youview box (BT 2100) feeding TV's all around the house via HDMI extender/CAT5 baluns. The box is controlled with 'magic eyes' that feed through an SLX coax distribution amp, with an Omnilink IR signal extender kit located near the Youview box. The main Aerial feed goes directly into the youview box and all worked fine.
However, I wanted to split the aerial feed before it goes into the Youview box to feed a bedroom TV that's not connected up with the HDMI Cat 6 extension system, so bought a cheap coax splitter from ebay (see link). Aerial feed now comes down from roof, in to the splitter then one feed out to Youview and other to bedroom TV. Picture is fine in both cases and signal strength looks good according to the Youview box signal check.
The problem is, when I now point a remote at a magic eye and press a button, I get a brief picture break up so it would seem the IR signal is now somehow upsetting the Youview box. Before anyone suggests it, I don't want to use the RF out on the Youview box as it's disabled when the box sleeps unless you leave the box in high power mode 24/7 which I'm keen to avoid with todays energy prices!
My question is, have I bought a cheap rubbish splitter that's causing the issue or is it the way I have it set up that just isn't going to work? This is the one I have tried....
2 Way COAX Coaxial T Splitter TV Aerial Male to 2 x Female Metal Adaptor RF | eBay
This is a splitter for TV coax cables. 1 x TV Coax Splitter. it has a male input to two female outputs. 2 Female output. 1 Male input.
www.ebay.co.uk
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