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    Running Sat feeds to each room?

    Is this worth doing? In the past when I renovated I always run WF100x2 to each room where tv would be to provide sat feed and aerial via multiswitch.

    Going to start a new renovation in a few months and wondering if its even worth doing or best to stick with a with single aerial feed now and maybe get a new box e2 box with multiple tuners and use HDMI over Cat6 or even something like Dream Player TV on firestick / android tv.

    Honestly these days we dont watch sat anyway but I dont want to not adding wiring and having something change in a few years. Looks like nothing new has come out since the last time I did renovation in terms of mutliswtich etc which was probably overkill back then (around 12 years ago)

    Please share your thoughts. At a minimum I will still be doing 1 single cable going to aerial distribution for freeview

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    I would run two coax cables to main rooms and single coax to other rooms. As well as ethernet cables. Unicable multi switch will be better. You can then use whatever you want.

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    Each room will 100% at least 2xcat6, just trying to decide whether it is going to be even worth installing a sat dish these days.

    Just seen quad tuner for under £130, might just be worth getting one of those and using android app to view, that way can get away with 2 sat feeds and aerial feed to that.
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    There’s always client mode. No sat feeds needed to other rooms.

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    Sat dish is handy if your BB goes down and you have a backup .

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    Quote Originally Posted by TK4|2|1 View Post
    There’s always client mode. No sat feeds needed to other rooms.
    How does this work?

    Sent from my SM-G991B using Tapatalk

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    Quote Originally Posted by cactikid View Post
    Sat dish is handy if your BB goes down and you have a backup .
    Yeh I only want FTA, I don't want to pay for basic skyq and have no interest in paying for any additional monthly service.

    Been messing around with tvheadend and nvida sheild iv got. Been able display channels and logos using andorid nicely.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bally12345 View Post
    How does this work?

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    One receiver has the signal wires (host), the others do not (client). The client will get bouquets, EPG etc from host and stream from the host.

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    As some suggestions above. We'd a minimum of a twin tuner receiver as the main receiver then the Octagon SX988 as a client box setup in OpenViX client mode using a LAN or WiFi network if you have decent Wifi around the house. LAN is best: OCTAGON SX988 4K UHD IP H.265 HEVC IPTV Smart TV Set-Top Box (world-of-satellite.co.uk)

    Twin tuners:
    Octagon SF8008
    https://www.world-of-satellite.co.uk...f8008-twin-s2x

    Zgemma H7S:
    https://www.world-of-satellite.co.uk...ers/zgemma-h7s

    FBC tuner models with a Unicable LNB would give you 8 tuners minimum:
    Gigablue UHD UE 4K
    https://www.world-of-satellite.co.uk...blue-uhd-ue-4k

    Gigablue Quad 4K
    https://www.world-of-satellite.co.uk...ue_uhd_quad_4k

    VU+ Uno 4K SE
    https://www.world-of-satellite.co.uk...e-fbc-dvb-s-s2

    VU+ Duo 4K SE
    https://www.world-of-satellite.co.uk...plus-duo-4k-se

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