The triax unit is a plug and play device that lets you use any box with a scart/phono analogue video and audio outputs with an existing Sky RF distribution system using magic eyes to relay remote control commands back down the video uplink coax to the Sky box. As this will include any remote powered skylink compatible amplifier, it's the obvious choice if you have an existing setup feeding multiple remote TV's
The Sky box system works in the following way
It has an internal PAL analogue colour modulator that creates a new analogue TV channel using the uhf channel setup on the box and adds this channel to those input to the box from your aerial. The combined mix is output from RF1 and RF2 out. Any remote TV with an analogue tuner can tune into this extra channel and view it exactly as if it came from your aerial.
RF2 out adds two extra gizmos, a 9V power output to provide power output.
The magic eyes impose a copy of the control commands output by the Sky box remote on the coax uplink cable using a VHF carrier. The sky box demodulates this carrier to recreate the remote command which the box understands internally. No Infra Red is output at the Sky box end so only the box connected to RF2 will see the commands.
A triax link reproduces this system but also re-transmits any command signals in the remote room in this way other boxes will respond to a suitable remote in the room the triax box is located.
For one or possibly two remote TV's you can use a rf modulator to send the pictures and add a wireless infra red extender like powermids to handle remote control.
The system is only capable of not very good SD picture transmission and mono sound, this of course may be fine for a small screen kitchen/bedroom TV.
The supplied remote for HDR1000/1010S is not multi device capable. The supplied remotes with the earlier boxes like the Foxsat-HDR, HD FOX T2 and the HRD FOX T2 are multidevice and will operate your TV and the G2 boxes if you can pick one up cheaply. Otherwise as already said there a number of multidevice universal remotes on the market.
| Mon 25 Nov 2013 10:21:44
#4 |
