jezza1988 Posted November 4, 2014 Posted November 4, 2014 Hi all, Recently moved into a new home that basically has absoloutely no wall access due to the size and complexity of the way the house is built. I have access to the antenna splitter however. Basically, As only 1 rg6 coaxial is run to where the main tv is I can run my foxtel IQ there to its full potential. In theory, I could get my foxtel IQ box and just watch my regular foxtel channels minus my FTA (due to the dual tuner box). This however will take my ability away to watch FTA without the use of a signal to my antenna. Basically, wanting to feed a cable from the dish and antenna into a 2 way splitter which will feed out 1 cable taking it to the point in the wall. Then spitting out another splitter to hopefully split those signals - 1 to the tv and 1 to the foxtel iq. Possible? Secondly, would a device such as a smart serve fix my problem? Regards Jeremy Ps. will upload a picture if it needs to be made clearer.
HomerJ Posted November 4, 2014 Posted November 4, 2014 Foxtel will run a new cable for your IQ2 as part of the install cost.
jezza1988 Posted November 4, 2014 Author Posted November 4, 2014 Foxtel have visited and have no method of running a cable to the outside wall to make that happen unless they use conjuit or something similar - which I don't want: It is a rare house (without sounding pompous.)
DommyN Posted March 8, 2016 Posted March 8, 2016 So this may be the wrong place to post but if someone could help that would be great.I've got our main foxtel box in our lounge room but I want to be able to watch it in my back shed (mancave) as well. I am thinking of purchasing a HDMI splitter so i can split the HDMI output from the foxtel box into two. One that goes directly into our lounge tv and one that goes to a HDMI extender (powered) with a Cat6 cable that will bee to be approximately 40 meters long into a powered HDMI extender (receiver/also powered) into a HDMI cable and into my man cave TV.I'm not to good with cabling and stuff like this but after googling for a few days I thought I'd give it a shot.Any tips, or does anyone think it would actually work or am I just wasting my time. The inside TV is a Sony and outside tv is a Samsung. Surely it should work.
pgdownload Posted March 9, 2016 Posted March 9, 2016 (edited) Any tips, or does anyone think it would actually work or am I just wasting my time. The inside TV is a Sony and outside tv is a Samsung. Surely it should work. How are you going to control the Foxtel box while sitting in your man cave? On the cabling, if you do go ahead and try I would recommend you set up your 40m run in your living room to test it out first. That is plug all the components together (inc. the 40m cat cable) and then into your living room TV and flick the switch and see if the signal works. If it does then you can go the effort of getting the cables out to the man cave. Regards Peter Gillespie PS You would have been better to start a new thread on this as adding it to this unrelated thread is likely to be confusing. Edited March 9, 2016 by pgdownload
Tazzy2Heads Posted March 9, 2016 Posted March 9, 2016 Have you had a look at RF type tv signal extenders ? Depending how many walls and what they are made of some of these send a signal a fair way and the better ones will allow you to change channels using the Foxtel remote, though not all can handle the IQ3 box remote signals , it would pay to check first . cheers Tazzy
wheelz Posted May 5, 2016 Posted May 5, 2016 Any tips, or does anyone think it would actually work or am I just wasting my time. The inside TV is a Sony and outside tv is a Samsung. Surely it should work. Will work no problem, plenty of people doing it that way. I'm doing similar but its for cctv. I would use this newer hdmi-cat converter as it has the splitter built in so save an extra little box. They have been used with fox with no problems. https://www.ezyhd.com.au/shop/hdmi-splitter-hdmi-cable-loop/
wheelz Posted May 5, 2016 Posted May 5, 2016 How are you going to control the Foxtel box while sitting in your man cave? The hdmi-cat senders have IR extenders for changing channels.
alanh Posted May 5, 2016 Posted May 5, 2016 Jezza, If you have a satellite signal and a free to air signal you need a diplexer which is basically a filter which will pass signals under 1 000 MHz for FTA signals and the other input is a filter which will pass signals above 1 000 MHz, which is for satellite signals. RF extenders, you need one which has a multi-pin HDMI connector, all other types eg with a yellow, red and white plugs can only produce poor SD images only. Alanh
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