Sky Magic Eye - can I connect the two rooms via the existing aerial sockets for the house aerial?

Question

Or do I need to install a separate coax cable from the box to the eye in the other room? I was wondering if we could connect the sky box to the house aerial downstairs then connect the aerial socket in the bedroom to the 'eye'....

Answer 1

Hi, normally to carry out this extension you need to provide a coaxil cable from the rear of your sky box which plugs into the rf2 outlet, this cable is then fed into your bedroom and the magic eye is connected on the end of this cable, then into the back of the tv you want to view sky on, the reason for this is a) you can watch sky programmes, b) the normal tv signal which is plugged into the back of your sky box is then transmitted via the rf2 outlet, this means you get a good picture on normal tv.

You could run the cable from the rf2 outlet up into your loft (next to existing cable to your aerial socket) then disconnect your bedroom tv cable from the aerial and connect it via a connecting socket to the cable you have coming from the rf2 outlet on the back of the sky box, this will save you running any more cable into your other room. The only disadvantage is that whatever is being watched on sky in the main room will be transmitted into the other room, however with the magic eye you can switch channels, turn off etc, you of course will need another sky remote, these are fairly cheap in tesco's, and even cheaper via ebay. Hope this helps.

Answer 2

I have got one of them and I think we connected it straight into the aerial. I'm not entirely sure as my husband did it but he just read the instructions on the packet and it was really easy. It's much better than having to pay Sky extra each month for multiroom too!

Answer 3

Buy a set of FM wireless digi sender/receivers from ASDAor Argos approx £27:00

Just plug WiFi transmitter into sky box - plug scart for TV into back of digi send switch on.

Plug digi receiver into upstairs tv scart - switch on  and that's it sky upstairs without any extra coax.

You will need another Sky remote for your upstairs tv.

Mine works a treat and it took about 5 minutes to set up

Answer 4

My boyfriend just plugged ours into the aerial socket in the bedroom.