Sat feed to another room

Hello buddy, the best way to do this is to install a twin LNB on your dish, that way you can keep your original feed running to the living room and than have another feed running to your mancave... to future proof it you could go one step further and install a quad LNB instead of the twin, that way you can have two feeds running to the two rooms you are using to be able to record one channel and watch another...

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run a 2nd line/cable from your LNB (box the is mounted on dish) buddy if the LNB is capable! You may need to get a 2 way or 4 way LNB depending on your dish!

e.g my new sly sat dish has 4 way LNB so you can run 4 feeds off/through it by connecting from the LNB - so check the LNB of your sat and see how many ports are there!

Off top of me head!
you could loop/connect the 2 receivers using Sat cable (what boxes do you have)....however 2nd box would have to watch 1st

So link the Sat feed to main box, then run another feed out of main box into other box

Well thats where your budget went then :snicker:

TBH mate with that type of kit the best option will be running the cable from LNB and having separate feeds = seperate control (if you see a sly man ask if he fancies some cash in hand lol)

the 2nd option will work, but why have a porsche if you only travel 30mph lol!

Not 100% sure on that option buddy, but we do have a few members here that I can think off (nano / rik-rikjaard / todali) that are well up to speed on all the options that are available to you. Once one of them see's your thread i'm sure they will reply.

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Is there a power splitter that could be installed inside the roof that would enable me to feed 1, 2, 4... etc etc?

This is possible yes however you would still have to run 4 feeds from the dish into the attic so you can receive all transponders/polaritys... and the equipment aint cheap so your best option is to run seperate cables to the boxes as already advised.

MK

No mate sat feeds cannot be split like that aerials can but sat not - your best to get feed from dish for 2nd box via 2 way 4 way lnb

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Lol, I cant argue with you there :)

Is there a power splitter that could be installed inside the roof that would enable me to feed 1, 2, 4... etc etc?

Cant be done like that mate ok for aerialls normally but not sat

You can split a satellite cable with the correct type of passive splitter _
BUT
You cant use both boxes at the same time is there will be voltage and LNB command clashes.

As stated here already your best option is to buy a Quad LNB and have 4 feeds running from it, 2 to each box in question should you wish to use them at the same time ? ---- ~ don't be afraid to wave a *** van down and ask them ¬ £40 most charge to do the whole job _ Dont expect a gold plated install neither.

Failing that get a local installer - Its an hours work tops !

:rikjaard1:

Does solo 2 have LNB loop through ? again you are limited to sharing one band at a time !

What you need to understand roddypiper is the satellite signals arrive at your dish in 4 bands -

Horizontal high
vertical high
horizontal low
vertical low

bbc transponder for bbc london example 10773 H is LOW BAND HORIZONTAL which means receiver sends 18v to lnb switching it to Horizintal .

if a second receiver trys to switch to say 10758 V Itv london it will send 13v to switch to vertical but nothing will happen because 18v from other receiver will take precedent as it is higher voltage -

Both receivers can receive from same polarity and band at the same time - so they could both be tuned to different channels at the same time but you will have to know the frquency and band of the channel before switching to it ....
You could edit a channel list to be in band / polarity specific listings - its abit of a ball ache in all honesty as you can be sure at some point the conflict will occur and cause you distress all be it as your team scores or the bad guy gets hit !!!

You have decent boxes the only way to get the most out of them is connect them up separately really.

Use the plugin, remotechannelstream, second box doesn't need a sat feed.

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