All posts by Abbey
Below are all of Abbey's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
jb38:
Hi I've managed to swap the cables about - I can now get sky and magic eye to work, but I can't get freeview on the other channels, If I swap the cables in the IO Port I can get freeview channels and see the sky channel but magic eye doesn't work. Using the SLx 27824BMG 8 Output 4G Compatible Aerial Distribution Amplifier.
Thanks
Abbey
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jb38:
Hi JB, I got fed it with it last night and just connected up my old box to enable viewing. I have the 2 port IO device, I'm not very good with this stuff so bear with me - one of the cables is my roof top aerial and the other is a cable that goes to the distributor in the roofspace. When I swap these 2 cables I get the different results. I assume that the aerial cable should be plugged into the "in" port and then the cable going to the rood space gets plugged into the "out" box. I'll try setting it up later to see how far I get. I've seen on ebay that you can get 3 port device which replicates the existing ports on the old sky box so it might just be simpler to get that??
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jb38:
Sorry to be a pain - the aerial cable comes into the main room and doesn't get plugged into the SLX box directly (there is only 1 input cable plugged into the SLX box - now it may be that I have plugged it into the wrong input socket?)
I plugged the aerial cable into the RF input socket in IO box and connected the cable that is currently plugged into the RF2 socket in the existing sky box into the output box, with this set up I get freeview channels on all tvs (except for the main tv) and I could watch Sky but was unable to change via the magic eye.
I removed the aerial cable and I could still see sky but still wasn't able to change the channels.
When I plugged the RF2 cable into the "in" socket and the aerial cable into the out, I got the sky channels on all tvs and was able to turn them over but I do not have any freeview.
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Abbey: I've connected my old box up again, and it works perfectly sky eyes and freeview, I tried switching the input cables in the roof space but in the other slot I had no reception. I'm wondering is the IO port faulty?
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mazbar: It has its own power supply - everything works perfectly on the old skybox just as soon as I add the new box with IO port the magic eyes don't work (but they do have power to them as the red light is on)
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jb38:
Thanks all - yes I think I will purchase the 3 port link with additional power supply.
I'll let you know if it works :)
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Abbey: Hi just wanted to let you know that I am eventually up and running - thank goodness :) :)
Thank you all for your help and assistance
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Saturday 24 January 2015 4:47PM
Hi
I have installed the new sky HD box and added the IO port modulator, I have a powered SLX amplifier in the roof space, power is getting to my magic eyes but they are not turning over the sky. The RF port is switched on and the sky eye works when plugged directly into the IO modulator. Any suggestions?