Multi-room sky from single input

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FieldMouse

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#3330991 13-Jan-2025 16:01

nztim:

I am far Simpler I have one Sky box and distributed the HDMI to each TV over Ethernet, on the rare case that two of us want to watch two different sky channels one of us resorts to SkyGo

Can you explain your setup please.

My setup is:
The output from the Sky box goes to a 2 outlet splitter. One output from the splitter goes to the lounge TV and the other output goes to a Cat 6 extender over ethernet (and then to the bedroom TV). That has worked for perfectly for years on the Sky black box.

However I have just got the new Sky box, and I have no signal on the bedroom TV.

I thought it might be the extender, but if I connect the new box directly to the extender I, get a perfect signal on the bedroom TV.

I then tried the splitter.
If I connect the new box to the splitter and each splitter output to a different HDMI port on the lounge TV, I can switch between the ports and get a perfect signal on both ports.

I then tried with the new box to the splitter and just one output to the extender and there is no signal in the bedroom. The other port gives same result.

So why doesn't the extender like the signal from the splitter with the new box?

The splitter is a Lengkeng LKV312HDR-V2.0
The extender is a Digitech AC1785

richms

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#3331013 13-Jan-2025 17:34

You are probably now getting a signal too good for the extender out of the sky box as the splitter is saying its 4k capable so that's what it gets. If you want 4k on the local TV and to extend thru a cheap extender, then you need a splitter with a scaler in it to drop the other output to 1080.

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#3331015 13-Jan-2025 17:41

richms:

You are probably now getting a signal too good for the extender out of the sky box as the splitter is saying its 4k capable so that's what it gets. If you want 4k on the local TV and to extend thru a cheap extender, then you need a splitter with a scaler in it to drop the other output to 1080.

Are you saying the output from the black box is 1080 and the new box is 4K?

It's just that if I bypass the splitter and feed the output of the new box straight to the extender, it works perfectly.

Or am I missing something?

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#3331024 13-Jan-2025 18:59

Because it will read the edid from the extender and limit it's output to what it can handle. The splitter probably just says it takes all formats and yolo's it out to all the outputs.

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#3331215 14-Jan-2025 10:29

Problem solved.

I set the Sky box resolution to 1080p and I now get a signal on both TV's

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