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Last week I ordered 2 Sky+ boxes, and they're due to be installed
soon. Since we don't have any terrestrial TV we need to be able to
watch
at least two separate channels, and with the Sky+ inbuilt Tivo player two
favourites can both be recorded even when the schedules clash.
Great!
Anyway, I got thinking about controlling the 2 boxes as they will be
next
to each other in an AV rack. I assumed that since the Sky+ system is
designed to use 2 boxes then there would be a set-up screen, switch etc..
to
have one box set to 'Sky box No.1' and the other to 'Sky box No.2' and the
same
IR remote to control the two separately/discreetly. I've just got off
the
phone with Sky+ technical and they say that there isn't a way to control
them as
there aren't any discreet codes - so both boxes will respond to the IR
remote at
the same time :o( Technical said that the number of people that would
want
2 boxes next to each other is very low so they didn't bother with adding
this
feature!
They said that I could use a standard digibox for the second box as it
has
different IR codes than to the Sky+ box.
I suppose I could use HomeVision's expansion card multi-zone IR to
control
2 Sky+ boxes, but things start getting complex(ish)
Just thought I'd let you all know before someone else orders 2 Sky+
boxes.
Any other suggestions?
Simon
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