topic Re: Other TVs aerial set up in Sky Stream

Other TVs aerial set up

JohnP3 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:11:57 GMT

Since removing old sky+ box tv’s in other rooms don’t work on free view. Obviously an aerial issue so how do you connect other tv’s aerials to watch freeview on other tvs?

Re: Other TVs aerial set up

GD1 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:20:21 GMT

@JohnP3 This doesn't sound like it's a Sky Stream related issue. as Sky stream does not use aerial cables.

Re: Other TVs aerial set up

oj01 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:33:55 GMT

@GD1 I suspect the OP has replaced Sky+HD with Sky Stream

Re: Other TVs aerial set up

TimmyBGood — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:58:46 GMT

@JohnP3 wrote:

so how do you connect other tv’s aerials to watch freeview on other tvs?

Eith a simple back to back coaxial aerial connector, or possibly an amplifier if you are in a weaker signal area.

Re: Other TVs aerial set up

Hunter2660 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 23:57:31 GMT

You won't get a Freeview signal from a satellite dish. Freeview needs a terrestrial aerial not a satellite dish. If you can wait for a bit Freely boxes will be released in the near future which work over the internet so no aerial of any kind is required.

Re: Other TVs aerial set up

TimmyBGood — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 09:05:42 GMT

@Hunter2660

Sky+ HD boxes had a terrestrial television passthrough capability via an aerial socket: this has been posted about numerous times by users moving to Sky Q and losing signal from an aerial which was being fed through the previous Sky box to internal coaxial cabling and television tuners. DTTV can typically be restored by rejoining the now discontinuous cables behind the new Sky hardware.

On the DRX890 above the aerial socket is below the left hand dish input.

Re: Other TVs aerial set up

BenJoBanjo — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 08:35:59 GMT

@Hunter2660 wrote:
You won't get a Freeview signal from a satellite dish. Freeview needs a terrestrial aerial not a satellite dish. If you can wait for a bit Freely boxes will be released in the near future which work over the internet so no aerial of any kind is required.

The first Freely streaming device, the Netgem Pleio, is already available.