What a wonderful thing!!
I love it
One thing though.
Does anyone know if you can do autoview with it like on the old sky system.
Have sky via a coax cable upstairs, and its a bastard going down to change the channel. I used to set them all up for autoview before going up.
Anyone know if you can do it with this box??
Mark A rusty wheel arched 1987 RR V8 EFI
Shure can There is a gizmo to plug onto the end of the co-ax which also gives you r/c of the sky box downstairs I think it's real name is TV Link Here's one on eBay
you could always buy a signal sender from argos, put one in the upstairs room and the other in the room with sky in it and away you go , full control over sky from upstairs. Argos part number 534/0679 £34.39 online
GGJ .
Autoview = no
As for the TV link - I tried one of those. Not until you get the box open does it tell you it will not work if you have an aerial splitter or a booster between the sky plus box and the remote television(s). It gets its power through the aerial cable from the sky box (you have to enable this in a "secret" setup menu).
It also won't work if you have a Hauppauger USB winTV. This seems to short out the supply somehow - it did on my setup anyway.
I gave up and just use one of those remote transmitter/reciever jobbies.
Matt B
Sorry, I think Autoview went the way of the dodo with Sky+.
Sorry, what I wanted to add was that with a "Magic eye" "SLX link" or whatever thewy're called, you'll be able to remote control your Sky+ (or any other Sky box) from upstairs via the coax.
Eg. here:
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