sky+ on a single feed

[tonygold]

hi
i wish to relocate my spare sky+ box to a room with only 1 sky input. i realise i cannot watch 1 prog and record another that is on at the same time, but would i be able to set the planner to record say BBC1 8pm - 9pm and then ITV 9.30pm - 10pm on this single feed setup. do i need to leave the box on the first channel to record when i go out or will it just switch to these channels automatically.
many thanks

[Smithy99]

Is this spare box part of a multiroom setup, if it has no card subscription then the Sky+ features won't work anyway, it will just behave like a standard receiver with no record/playback.

[tonygold]

hi
yes the card in it is a multiroom card that i pay an extra £10 a month for.

[Kenedin]

Set up a manual dummy recording :

http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/sky/1...tml#post110561

A lot of people use this method. Some just do a manual 24hr recording on some obscure channel you never watch, others just set up one manual recording to completely overlap the two scheduled recordings. Then leave the box in standby.

[Smithy99]

You must currently have a quad LNB with a spare output, is in not worth just running in the second feed?

[tonygold]

i may be just being stupid here but if i am trying to record on a single feed and the sky+ box first off tries to record through the number 2 input, if i connected my single feed to that connector instead of number 1 would that not work instead of setting up a dummy recording etc.

[Kenedin]

Explained here:

Sky+ with one input

[tonygold]

Explained here:

Sky+ with one input

thanks for that. sounds a simple enough workaround.