How to install Sky Multiroom

[willpalin]

Can I install Sky Multiroom without access to the dish?

[adydb]

Yes, try Maplins or the like and you can buy a wireless connection.

I do presume though that the 'Home' (main) Television is connected to a dish/Cable?....eg you obviously need a source.

[ursula62]

That's not the same as multiroom though. True sky multiroom allows you to watch one channel in one room and a different channel in the other. The wireless connections only allow you to watch the same channel in both rooms.

[willpalin]

Thanks for your responses; to expand on this; I recently tried to up-grade to Sky+ but after three engineer visits I',ve canncelled the installation. Currently the dish is mounted on a scaffold pole that Sky's guys say they cant work with and as the house is Listed a chimney mount is out. Sky want the pole re-located with me undertaking all the work! So all I really need to know is how to install multiroom DIY. If its two cables from the dish I can lower the pole, attach the cable and re-align horizontally no-problem.

[steveyk]

ok, Sky Multiroom is just a posh way of saying "extra digibox". These marketing chaps (and chappesses) are a nightmare!!! You will need to modify your existing LNB (which i assume is a single LNB) to a quad LNB, allowing you to run a 2nd cable to your sky+ and another cable to your "multiroom". If you've had 3 engineers attend and all of them have said they cant do it, its probably because your existing pole is not accessible using Skys health & safety procedures. Be warned though, if you move your dish you will need a proper meter to realign it, to avoid poor picture quality. ie freezing/blocking