Freeview remote device

[jeh1967]

I've got 2 freeview boxes. One connected to the external aerial. This works fine. The other I had connected to an internal aerial-this doesn't work. DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THERE IS A REMOTE DEVICE THAT CAN TRANSMIT THE STRONG TRANSMISSION FROM THE EXTERNALLY CONNECTED FREEVIEW BOX TO THE OTHER?

THANKS

[Buenchico]

The answer has to be 'no' because any device of the type you describe would only be manufactured in small quantities and would therefore cost far more than the 2 Freeview boxes put together!

You're going to have to find a way to connect the 2nd Freeview box to the external aerial. In theory this is dead easy - just get an aerial splitter and a length of coaxial cable - but the practicalities, of course, depend upon the layout of your house.

Post again if I can help further.

Chris

[jeh1967]

Thanks Chris.

Ok, my dilemma is this. I bought my son a new TV and Freeview box...Which is set up in his room upstairs. The main Freeview and TV is downstairs. I connected up an indoor aerial to his freeview only to find the signal isn't strong enough, even connected with one of those booster devices (which I must ad are CRAP).

So can you think of a way around this. Other wise I'm going to have to rig up an external aeria l- this is not my first choice of a solution.

Cheers

[Buenchico]

(Posted in 2 parts):

An aerial splitter is the obvious solution but, without knowing exactly how your aerial cable is routed, it's difficult to suggest precisely how you should go about it. The easiest place to introduce the splitter, obviously, is at the point where your aerial feed arrives into your living room (assuming that's where your main TV is). Simply plug in the splitter unit (probably about a quid or so from Maplin or even Woolworths) and you've got two feeds off one aerial. Yes, you do get a slightly lower signal strength off each feed but it's usually of no significance. (It's easy to think that you'll only get a half-strength signal off each feed but the science doesn't work like this. I've never had a problem using splitter units).

Now comes the tricky bit. You've got two aerial feeds but both are in your living room and one of the TV's to be connected to one of the feeds is in a bedroom. This is still not a great problem - at least in theory. All you need is the right length of coaxial cable (with suitable plugs at either end) linking your feed to the TV. Now, where you're going to put this depends upon the layout of your house, how good you are at DIY and how bothered you are about having cables showing!

I've got a coax cable, providing an aerial feed, permanently hanging down alongside my open-plan stairs but I live alone and haven't got to deal with the pressures of, say, a houseproud wife! It's more likely that you'll need to run a cable along an external wall (which is where the DIY skills come in!).

[Buenchico]

(2nd part):

It's difficult to go beyond this without knowing the exact layout of your house. The first thing to do, however, is to check the route of your existing cabling from your aerial to your TV. There may be a far easier point to introduce a splitter unit than in your living room. For example, does the cable pass through a loft above your son's bedroom? If so, all you've got to do is cut through the cable and fit a couple of coax plugs to either end prior to introducing a splitter unit. Then just run an extra cable from the splitter unit to your son's Freeview box. (This is actually a better solution than putting the spitter box in your living room because it minimises cable lengths together with the associated signal losses).

Without additional information I think that's as far as I can go but post again if you need further suggestions.

Chris