Hello everyone,
I've recently bought a 1010S as my Sky subscription expired (I was on an offer and to continue to get anywhere near the channels I wanted was way too much). Anyway, the 1010S is all up and running with the Sky dish connected to the Humax box with the two feeds from the shotgun cable and it all works as it should. That said, I need to continue to use the Sky box to watch BT Sport as we recently took that out to watch MotoGP. Initially I thought I'd just connect one feed in from the dish to the Humax and the other to the Sky box, which will limit how I record on the Humax I know, but will at least let me watch from both boxes as and when. Unfortunately the Humax box wouldn't detect a signal with one lead connected so I needed to connect both feeds to it which gives a good strong signal. My question is this - is there a switchable device that I can connect to one of the feeds in and then split it so that a feed can then go from the device to the Humax and Sky box? I've been told it would have to be switchable as both boxes provide voltage to the dish and if they're both doing this at the same time I could damage the LNB.
I thought something like this (http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/two-way-f-plug-aerial-switch-my03d#tab_questions) might do the job with a couple of fly leads - what do you think, or is there something more suitable?
To confirm, the Sky box will only be powered up when we're using it, it won't be on standby at all, but obviously the Humax will be.
Thanks in advance.
Hoops
