FBC Tuner requirements

[rossi2000]

yes but you must buy an adapter

wos doenst seem to have any stock at the moment,

its an adapter that fits onto the end of your dish with a bigger collar to fit the new lnb.
simple procedure

[Andy_Hazza]

So I can use an standard sky existing dish?

If for instance you have a Quad LNB so you have four feeds, what are you going to do with the existing cabling when you fit a JESS LNB?

[rossi2000]

do jess lnbs not come with legacy ports?

[Andy_Hazza]

do jess lnbs not come with legacy ports?

Nope. .

[smith_rob]

If for instance you have a Quad LNB so you have four feeds, what are you going to do with the existing cabling when you fit a JESS LNB?

Can you not just put the 3 existing cables into the splitter? Isn't the one unicable II feed effectively the 4 Frequencies?

[Andy_Hazza]

Can you not just put the 3 existing cables into the splitter? Isn't the one unicable II feed effectively the 4 Frequencies?

JESS LNB has one port/feed, then you need to run the cable and the splitter really needs to be indoors (ideally loft but not essential), then the cable from the JESS goes into the splitter, and then you feed off the splitter to your boxes.

[smith_rob]

JESS LNB has one port/feed, then you need to run the cable and the splitter really needs to be indoors (ideally loft but not essential), then the cable from the JESS goes into the splitter, and then you feed off the splitter to your boxes.

So this would work for me as I'm moving house so effectively starting a fresh, I know they have a sky dish at the moment
I'll just buy the Unicable II LNB, splitter, and the adapter to fit the LNB and run new cable to each room of the house

[smith_rob]

So just to be completely clear I've done a diagram lol

setup.jpg

Included in the image is
1x 5278 IDLU-32UL40-UNBOO-OPP (Inverto Unicable2 32 LNB)
1x SAT Splitter 6x with DC Passthrough Class A
1x Solo 4K Living Room (1x Cable coming from splitter)
1x Duo2 Bedroom 3 (2x Cables coming from splitter)
1x Zero Bedroom 2 (1x Cable coming from splitter)
1x Zero Bedroom 1 (1x Cable coming from splitter)

Also i have 1x spare connection on splitter if i need to run another cable,

Questions
Any better ways of doing this?
Will Signal strength be ok?
Does the duo2 need two cables? Im guessing it does if i want to watch and record as its not a FBC tuner?

[2stein]

looks good to me.
the duo2 only needs 2 cables if it has 2 physical tuners: 2 single tuners or 2 dual tuners.

[chumley]

The LNB says it's programmable (and the programmer is sold separately) - do you need to program it? why would you want / need to?

[Huevos]

No you don't need the programmer. The prgrammer is for setting up the LNB in static mode.

[chumley]

@smith_rob - have you got your system up an running yet? I'm looking at something similar and am interested on how well it works

[smith_rob]

Nah still haven't moved house, this house moving stuff is stressful lol


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[chumley]

Tell me about it! - if you haven't seen there is a thread i started about unicable (your diagram got me thinking!) I don't know if you might get the same issues Rob van der Does has had:

http://www.world-of-satellite.com/sh...light=unicable

[psykix]

My Solo4K is driving me potty..

Yesterday I tried to watch a channel and it kept giving a tune failed error.

Tuners A and C were in use (B is motorised) - it was as though tuner A was not being released, and for whatever reason it wouldn't use tuner D

I'm not even sure how to troubleshoot this. I have a Unicable LNB and they are are linked to each other correctly (C to A, D to C, E to D etc)

Fast forward and rewind has also gone to pot lately - dunno if that is an image issue. When fast forward or rewinding, after pressing play again, the audio will play but the picture freezes.

Any ideas?