I'm getting it slowly bud! I assume that I can use the one or two coaxial feeds I have connected to present 8 LNB to go to the splitters for separate boxes? After I change to single unicable LNB ?
Leaving Sky Q - New receiver options
- Thread starter Wymington23
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Drox
TK Veteran
Yes, just put the splitter in a standard junction box and use it outside by the lnb. You can use all 8 cables if you like lol.
Receiver with FBC tuner and a unicable LNB.
8 tuners and you could probably exceed 24 recordings while watching one i dont know the exact amount of recordings that is possible, i did 16 as a test. Down a single cable no splitters.
I am really checking this out to see if I could do it all myself!
I think I could as we are living in a Detached Bungalow double sized Park home.
When we moved here 8 years ago there was no sat dish so I took a Sky sub with everything at half price £60 a month for 1 year contract then cancelled at the end.
Changed the LNB to 8 then got 2 E2 boxes for CS and IPTV.
But now Shield Cube and Stick! her indoors likes recording everything on sat so could be a good move , flog the boxes to finance the change!
Not sure, I can remember some plastic breaking when I did it!
I will take a pic!
Would it fit on there?
Drox
TK Veteran
Let me get my ruler out 😝
It’s hard to say without measuring it
Worst case scenario - buy one of these
https://cpc.farnell.com/unbranded/h...SUzfCau14kRJdxdV_xYJd4RZBmhrr7lxoCSloQAvD_BwE
soltia
Member
Not wanting to derail this thread , but in regard to the OP having a NAS. Are you talking about using it to store recordings , or is there a way to stream video content from a NAS with this or any other E2 box ?
Wymington23
Newbie
Hi, Sky sub now ended and buying new box this week. Looking at Octagon SF8008 at £110, but have been offered a Vu+ Duo 2 for £50 2nd hand. Is that comparable? I wont be needing 4k as hardly any channels.
thecrazybandit
Member
The duo 2 is a old box better of with the Octagon
@Wymington23 just to help you a bit further, the DUO2 has space for an internal HD and may have one installed, it will have as a basic setup a twin sat tuner and it has space for a twin Terrestial tuner or you can add another twin sat tuner. £50.00 is a steal but check what you get and that remote is OK and that it has the lastest image, Openvix would be ideal.
£50 is a bargain, have a look on fleabay to see what I mean. And by my reckoning its one of the best boxes ever made and I have 2 of them.
I dont think the octagon has an internal HDD.
£50 is a bargain, have a look on fleabay to see what I mean. And by my reckoning its one of the best boxes ever made and I have 2 of them.
I dont think the octagon has an internal HDD.
It a decent box for that price but it dual core cpu versus quad core on the SF8008 the Duo2 has 2gb ram versus 1gb on the SF8008 though.
A bit of an aside, but if you have a Sky Q twin cable setup, you can actually use any box you like paired with the right switch. I got the "JOHANSSON 9725 SFU dCSS Switch" which takes the wideband signal from the 2 cables and provides 2 unicable outputs.
I wanted to get my feet wet with sat receivers, but I didn't want to have to change anything on the satellite end (and I wanted to keep my Sky Q box working by putting it in single cable SCR mode) so I got an Octogon SF8008.
Both the Octagon box and Sky Q box work together fine, had I known the SF8008 wasn't FBC I would have gotten another box. Later on I'll probably get a splitter so the SF8008 can at least have 2 tuners.
Posting this here because as a newbie I took a gamble and didnt really find much answers on the web.
I wanted to get my feet wet with sat receivers, but I didn't want to have to change anything on the satellite end (and I wanted to keep my Sky Q box working by putting it in single cable SCR mode) so I got an Octogon SF8008.
Both the Octagon box and Sky Q box work together fine, had I known the SF8008 wasn't FBC I would have gotten another box. Later on I'll probably get a splitter so the SF8008 can at least have 2 tuners.
Posting this here because as a newbie I took a gamble and didnt really find much answers on the web.
@Drox and @urie et al,
So If I install a unicable LNB with a single legacy port. The legacy post is deemed to be the Universal type port.
What is confusing me is the difference between Unicable 1 and Unicable 2 LNBS. If I have understood correctly,
a Unicable 1 LNB will only permit a maximum of 4 separate cables once the signal is split into different SCRs.
However, the Unicable 2 LNB will permit up to a maximum of 24 separate cables once the signal is split into different SCRs.
Is my understanding correct?
You see, I have quite a few receivers and want to use a 8 way splitter to feed each box with the same 19.2E
signal via Unicable LNB. I think I can only do this with a Unicable 2 and also ensuring that each receiver is Unicable 2
capable?
Any help, comments and suggestions greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Drox
TK Veteran
Pretty much, yes. You can get Unicable 2 lnbs that have up to 32 user bands, but I don’t think I’ve seen one of those that comes with a legacy port too.
For Unicable 2 compatibility, you just need to check you can set your receiver to the frequencies/bands of the lnb.
https://www.inverto.tv/download/file/5a9fa28c9193c-1520411276.pdf
Thank you @Drox. I read that and then looked at more bits on the website.
I have quite a few closed source and Linux boxes. Now my Linux boxes show that they are capable of accepting
Unicable II. My closed source Viarks are as well. However, I have two Technomate receivers, and they only show
Unicable A, B, C and D as the LNB options I could choose. They do not list the specific channels and band/frequencies
they can use unlike the Linux boxes and the Viarks. They only provide option A, B, C or D with no band number.
So here is my concern. If I install a Unicable II LNB and then use splitters, I know I can connect the Linux and Viarks,
but I don't know if I can connect the Technomates?
If I chose Unicable A on one Technomate, how would I know it is using the 1210 band/channel as opposed to the
1680 band/channel? Furthermore, how would I know if the Technomate could even work with a Unicable II LNB?
I called the Technomate shop and no one available could help me. It would be a shame if I couldn't connect the
Unicable II cables. Using Unicable I is not an option due to the limited splitting scope.