Freesat

[Norkie]

Hi all,

I have dropped sky and installed a Humax Freesat box, easy peasy

We had a Sky+ box in the living room with two sat cables, both now attached to the humax box. Works a treat.

In the conservatory I had a Sky repeater box with one cable.

Can I add another humax box with two cable connections but only connect my one cable?

Will it still record?

Any help greatly appreciated. Thank you

 

[Steep]

If you can switch off the power to the lnb then yes but it would be dependent on the primary box for horizontal/vertical polarisation. In other words if the primary box is set to a horizontal channel the secondary box would only get horizontal channels.
Unless... you have multiple cables running up to the dish, if you do you can simply use one of them for the second box...I think without seeing it.

 

[dejongj]

And yes you can connect just one cable of the two. Can only watch and record one programme at a time though.

As said before the key question is where the cable leads to. If it doesn't go to your lnb I would just get two more cables installed.

 

[Alastair]

You need one cable per "activity" - an activity is either watching or recording. Recording channel A while watching channel B is two activities. For fully independent channel viewing each box requires it's own activity feed.

You could run a couple of extra cables to get watch/record/watch-whilst-recording functionality on both boxes (two cables per box, each to a separate LNB) or you could run one cable to each box and get watch/record-what-you're-watching functions on both.


I don't think there's a non-cable laying way using a DiSEqC, but I'm only really familiar using those the other way round (2 dishes, one receiver not 2 receivers, 1 dish).

 

[Steep]

I'm pretty sure Sky+ systems use 'four output' LNBs if that's what he has it should be straight forward to use one of the cables to run the second box (or two if the box supports it).

 

[Norkie]

Many thanks Indeed guys, very much appreciated