Evening All,
I currently have Sky TV installed in the house, with the cable from the dish entering through a hole in the living room wall and connecting to the back of the Sky STB.
From the Sky STB I have a co-ax feed which goes to a wall plate, from that plate some co-ax cable goes up inside the wall, through the ceiling space, to a wall plate in the bedroom, and from there to a TV in the bedroom. This allows us to watch whatever channel is set on the Sky STB on the TV in the bedroom. The signal's great, everything works fine.
On top of this I have installed a 'magic eye' type thingy that allows me to use a sky remote upstairs to change the channel on the Sky STB downstairs, thus changing the channel that is being viewed on the TV in the bedroom.
I would now like to extend this functionality to another room.
So, I've split the co-ax cable just before it goes to the wall plate in the bedroom and installed one of these (complete with the required f-connectors to join the two cut ends of co-ax to the splitter):
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The signal's great, and everything
seems ok until (you've guessed it) I try to change channels..... Nothing happens..... I'm guessing that the signal from the magic eye is being passed back through the co-ax to the Sky STB (possibly via the braided copper shielding) and that this splitter doesn't pass that signal along.
So.....the crux of my post:
1. Am I right in my assumption? Has installing this splitter severed the connection that the magic eye uses to send the signal back to the STB, or have I accidentally done something else wrong?
2. If I
am right, what's the fix? Is there a splitter available (preferably non-powered as I don't want to have to run power to this location as well) that will do the job?
3. If there isn't a splitter available, what other option do I have for a) fixing what I've 'broken', and b) doing what I want to do?
Thanks
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