At my parents house, sky is currently installed with the shotgun coax coming straight from the satellite, through a hole in the living room wall and into the sky HD box.
They are currently waiting for a new wooden floor to be installed and we saw it as a good opportunity to put a faceplate in, as well as putting a separate faceplate at a different location in the room, so that is they fancy moving the TV, the sky is already installed there and won't require cables trailing across the skirting.
After researching it, my solution was as follows
Shotgun coax -> two splitters (Labtec FBS402/s)
From each splitter, one output going to point A and one to point B (I understand there are implications with splitters and channel switching, but there will only ever be a box connected to either A or B, never both)
Each of A and B then terminated to a faceplate.
Now my problems are as follows... Sorry if it's confusing, its confusing enough in real life.
We have two feeds, lets call them A and B. If A alone is connected to the box, it works (in input 1 or 2) If B is also connected, it shows as good signal on the signal viewer in settings. However B alone does not work.
If we have one sat feed connected directly to the box and the other through a splitter, then a picture shows and both feeds show as good signal. This applies with either A or B directly connected.
However, if we put both through splitters then it doesn't work.
This completely baffles me, anyone got any ideas? As a test I connected shotgun lead A alone to port 1 of the box (and nothing to port 2), then tried each of the ports on the LNB and it had signal and showed a picture. However doing the same with B and no signal.
I have a feeling I may have 2 separate problems here, but any help would be much appreciated.
rory
They are currently waiting for a new wooden floor to be installed and we saw it as a good opportunity to put a faceplate in, as well as putting a separate faceplate at a different location in the room, so that is they fancy moving the TV, the sky is already installed there and won't require cables trailing across the skirting.
After researching it, my solution was as follows
Shotgun coax -> two splitters (Labtec FBS402/s)
From each splitter, one output going to point A and one to point B (I understand there are implications with splitters and channel switching, but there will only ever be a box connected to either A or B, never both)
Each of A and B then terminated to a faceplate.
Now my problems are as follows... Sorry if it's confusing, its confusing enough in real life.
We have two feeds, lets call them A and B. If A alone is connected to the box, it works (in input 1 or 2) If B is also connected, it shows as good signal on the signal viewer in settings. However B alone does not work.
If we have one sat feed connected directly to the box and the other through a splitter, then a picture shows and both feeds show as good signal. This applies with either A or B directly connected.
However, if we put both through splitters then it doesn't work.
This completely baffles me, anyone got any ideas? As a test I connected shotgun lead A alone to port 1 of the box (and nothing to port 2), then tried each of the ports on the LNB and it had signal and showed a picture. However doing the same with B and no signal.
I have a feeling I may have 2 separate problems here, but any help would be much appreciated.
rory