Help with more than 1 box.

[Bowser69]

Hi

Techy problem here, I have Sky+ and also a multi room box system running from my dish, these work fine. The dish was replaced when I took out Sky+ and the engineer put a unit on the dish which took 4 cables.

I have recently set up an old sky box from the spare cable point on the dish and run this to my garage ( so that I can watch sky whilst on my running machine).

The sky box works and the signal strength is great but I can only get the bog standard channels, even though I subscribe to Sports etc.

If I contact Sky will they send me a new card or can I do something to the settings on my old box to allow me to use the full package?

Any help appreciatted.

Thanks

M

[reddwarfcrew]

the card has to be paired with the box to get the premium channels.

This means each time you took the card from the main box to the garage box you would have to call sky and vice versa. Not really viable and i doubt sky would let you keep doing it.

The only viable solution is another multiroom sub.

You'd be better putting an RF output from the main box to your garage.

[Bowser69]

Fogot to say that the old box also has an old card in it, does that make any difference? I can see sky on the TV in the garage through the old box.

M

[reddwarfcrew]

not really, you need multiroom on it and pay the extra in monthly subs.

[skypaulusplus]

when the subscription card is put in the non subscription box it will work but not for box office(ive done it before)

[reddwarfcrew]

it wont work for ANY premium channels unless the card and box are paired to the account.

[skypaulusplus]

fair enough i didnt have any prem channels when i did it

[reddwarfcrew]

interesting, so you took a card that gave access to the prem channels and put it in another box and that allowed viewing of the premium channels (without any phone call to sky)?

[skypaulusplus]

?
i didnt have any prem channels so i couldnt view them anyway, but for normalt mixes it works

[Bowser69]

OK, thanks everyone, looks like I'm left with the simple BBC/ITV channels, had another thought, can I run a digi box from my sky dish/sky cable?

M