Scrambled Channels through Sky Feed

mrrandom123

Hello,

Apologies if this type of question has been asked a million times. After noticing there was a dish on the grounds of my apartment block I decided to connect the living room TV to the outlet on the wall with an F Sat aux cable. To my surprise 100s of channels were found but the majority of them were duplicates of FreeView channels. Some of the FreeView channels are scrambled and all of the Irish channels are scrambled. I understand that Irish Sky customers need a subscription to watch RTE through their Sky Box.
My question is there any way of unscrambling FreeView or any of the Irish channels? We've tried using an indoor aerial for SaorView but we're unable to get a steady reception despite being within 5k of Three Rock.
I have probably answered my own question here but thought there was no harm in asking the question here!

athlone573

No theres not.
you'll get most of the UK channels (itv BBC c4 and lots more) on free-to-air satellite
To get RTE you need to pay Sky (or Eir or Vodafone or Virgin), or find a way to get a signal on your aerial (attic or window facing towards Ticknock might work)

Johnboy1951

Sky encrypt channels on the satellite, including the Saorview channels, and the only means of decrypting them is to take out a contract with Sky.
There are at the same time a large number of unencrypted UK channels available from satellite, and the Saorview channels are available via an aerial.

mrrandom123

athlone573 wrote: »

No theres not.
you'll get most of the UK channels (itv BBC c4 and lots more) on free-to-air satellite
To get RTE you need to pay Sky (or Eir or Vodafone or Virgin), or find a way to get a signal on your aerial (attic or window facing towards Ticknock might work)

Thanks for the reply. Have tried a couple of indoor aerials in the living room. I can see Ticknock directly out the window but I can never get a stable signal. Not sure if it's a concrete wall blocking the signal or something in the room like the modem interfering with it. Works perfectly fine on the bedroom TV.

athlone573

mrrandom123 wrote: »

Thanks for the reply. Have tried a couple of indoor aerials in the living room. I can see Ticknock directly out the window but I can never get a stable signal. Not sure if it's a concrete wall blocking the signal or something in the room like the modem interfering with it. Works perfectly fine on the bedroom TV.

It might be some metallic chemicals in the windows or something. Anyway hopefully you got some pointers here today.

decor58

mrrandom123 wrote: »

Hello,

Apologies if this type of question has been asked a million times. After noticing there was a dish on the grounds of my apartment block I decided to connect the living room TV to the outlet on the wall with an F Sat aux cable. To my surprise 100s of channels were found but the majority of them were duplicates of FreeView channels. Some of the FreeView channels are scrambled and all of the Irish channels are scrambled. I understand that Irish Sky customers need a subscription to watch RTE through their Sky Box.
My question is there any way of unscrambling FreeView or any of the Irish channels? We've tried using an indoor aerial for SaorView but we're unable to get a steady reception despite being within 5k of Three Rock.
I have probably answered my own question here but thought there was no harm in asking the question here!

Are the main UK channels, BBC, ITV, C4, clear, then its a case of sorting them in some order, free to air channels come in in no order and you get all the regional variations.
What type/model tv do you have, there may be a Freesat mode, in which case the channels will tune in order.
Can you put your Saorview aerial outside, put it on the balcony, in the direction of Three Rock if possible.

lertsnim

Is there any possibility that the outlet on the wall is for Virgin Media? That will scan mostly scrambled channels.