larachantie
Novice Member
Thanks to the great advice on this forum, I've successfully used an unused Sky Q dish and cable - left in my house by the previous owners - to watch Freesat using one of the new "wideband" compatible Freesat boxes from the official Freesat website. All works great. The cables terminate in the living room so my question is about watching Freesat occasionally, not regularly, in another room. The cable run from the dish only runs into the living room.
I've read that the proper way to do this is to run a dual cable from the Sky Q wideband LNB on the Sky dish into the occasional other room as the LNB will have the sockets already in place. Then buy another Freesat box and install it on the occasional room. So we can watch Freesat in both rooms. However it's a rented property and as we only want to use it occasionally (for my mother-in-law when the Freeview - not Freesat - digital signal plays up in certain weather) we are happy to occasionaly sacrifice using it in the living room. I'm asking for help on how to do this "switch over" and "switch back" in an easy way.
We can do this by running an extension cable from the living room into the other room using another Freesat box but the problem is that it is a real faff each time to disconnect the F cable ends (two) from the Freesat box and then screw it back into the extension dual cable and impossible for an older lady to do if alone. So my real question is whether it possible to buy a "t switch" with a manual switch that at a flick of the switch directs the signal from one cable to another? (I'd obviously have to buy two as it's a dual cable coming from the dish into the living room). The T switch(es) would be connected between a) the original Sky cables and b) either short cables into the living room Freesat box or the extension cable into the other Freesat box in the other room.
Looking online there are loads of satellite F-Splitter devices - such as the Konig ones on Amazon -but they are apparently incompatible as you can't split a satellite signal. I don't want to split the signal, just easily switch it from one cable to another in the living room so that it works either in the living room or other room but not both at the same time. Sorry to ask such an odd question!
In computing, you can buy a "KVM" switch that allows one keyboard, one video cable and one mouse to toggle between more than one computer by pressing a button so this is the type of thing I'm looking for. Unless any ideas for other ways to achieve the goal?
I've read that the proper way to do this is to run a dual cable from the Sky Q wideband LNB on the Sky dish into the occasional other room as the LNB will have the sockets already in place. Then buy another Freesat box and install it on the occasional room. So we can watch Freesat in both rooms. However it's a rented property and as we only want to use it occasionally (for my mother-in-law when the Freeview - not Freesat - digital signal plays up in certain weather) we are happy to occasionaly sacrifice using it in the living room. I'm asking for help on how to do this "switch over" and "switch back" in an easy way.
We can do this by running an extension cable from the living room into the other room using another Freesat box but the problem is that it is a real faff each time to disconnect the F cable ends (two) from the Freesat box and then screw it back into the extension dual cable and impossible for an older lady to do if alone. So my real question is whether it possible to buy a "t switch" with a manual switch that at a flick of the switch directs the signal from one cable to another? (I'd obviously have to buy two as it's a dual cable coming from the dish into the living room). The T switch(es) would be connected between a) the original Sky cables and b) either short cables into the living room Freesat box or the extension cable into the other Freesat box in the other room.
Looking online there are loads of satellite F-Splitter devices - such as the Konig ones on Amazon -but they are apparently incompatible as you can't split a satellite signal. I don't want to split the signal, just easily switch it from one cable to another in the living room so that it works either in the living room or other room but not both at the same time. Sorry to ask such an odd question!
In computing, you can buy a "KVM" switch that allows one keyboard, one video cable and one mouse to toggle between more than one computer by pressing a button so this is the type of thing I'm looking for. Unless any ideas for other ways to achieve the goal?