sending signal from one house to another...

x in the city

lads

We have a FTA set up here, is it possible to send our signal down to the in laws who live next door ..?

just wondering if its possible with them boxes you can get to transmit signals.

cheers

DublinWriter

Not really, unless you made them watch what you were watching.

You'll probably need a dual LNB dish with two sets of co-ax wires, one for them and one for you.

fat-tony

Running cables from a single satellite dish to devices in different houses could run you into electrical safety issues. Neighbouring houses could be on different phases of the electrical supply and a fault in a receiver in one house could place users in the other house in danger. Servicing multiple dwellings with satellite or terrestrial signals is a job for experienced professionals.

Mr McBoatface

DublinWriter wrote: »

Not really, unless you made them watch what you were watching.

You'll probably need a dual LNB dish with two sets of co-ax wires, one for them and one for you.

This is dangerous and it will invalidate your home insurance. Separate equipment for each household is required.

Tomk1

Just go down to B&Q and buy a HD-FTA box with everything (box dish cable) for €100 compaired to spending 50-70€ on a TV-tx/rx that might not work (and don't turn on the microwave) or €50ish for LNB + €25 for 50m of cable digging a path under the grass through the walls so they can watch you flick through channels, keeping the windows open so they can shout over "stop on that channel

keithclancy

Well probably more than you'd want,

I have a mediacenter running mediaportal with 2 DVB-S2 tuners and 1 DVB-T Tuner.

Its frontend and back end so I have the Frontend also installed on my laptop and mac mini upstairs.

Have the the full EPG on my laptop plus full quality telly in Bed or in the office on the top floor

watty

The B&Q FTA box are VERY bad value. A Freesat box, or ideally a "Freesat HD" much better:

Extras:
Interactive, Like BBC Wimbleton works. (FTA box has no Interactive)
No manual tuning except a few channels (FTA box all channels are manual)
Full Program guide approx 7 days with details (FTA box only now/Next)
Better User Interface.

Some Freesat boxes are awkward for "other channels" not on Freesat and some have no Diseqc for multisatellite.

Liameter

x in the city wrote: »

lads

We have a FTA set up here, is it possible to send our signal down to the in laws who live next door ..?

just wondering if its possible with them boxes you can get to transmit signals.

Technically it is possible to use a "videosender" pair of units. In practice, they will probably need to be placed in facing windows unless the house walls are very thin, as the signal is weak! The videosender will transmit the currently selected programme from the Digibox to which it's connected. However, most videosenders incorporate a remote control facility, allowing the viewer to change channel.

Cantona's Collars

Liameter wrote: »

Technically it is possible to use a "videosender" pair of units. In practice, they will probably need to be placed in facing windows unless the house walls are very thin, as the signal is weak! The videosender will transmit the currently selected programme from the Digibox to which it's connected. However, most videosenders incorporate a remote control facility, allowing the viewer to change channel.

Only problem is that both houses will have to watch the same thing,bit embarrising if someone 'accidentally' turns on Movies 4 Men after 11pm:)

Best for the inlaws to have their own system installed-not much more expensive than buying a box to connect to the op's dish.