Watching Youview in another room

[elsmore1]

Hi,

We have TalkTalk TV via a youview box in the lounge next to our Broadband router. This means we can only watch the Youview box in the lounge. We have an uplink to a sort of amplifier in the roof that feeds the freeview signal to 4 other TV sets but not the Youview.

Can anyone advise the best way to watch the youview box particularly some recorded programs from one other TV this is as my wife often watches TV in the evening in the bedroom. We would only need to watch the TV in the bedroom not the same time as the lounge TV.

Is this possible via a cable from the lounge to the bedroom, the bedroom is above the lounge so not impossible or would a HDMI or USB device be possible.

Thanks

 

[Lucid]

Simplest way and possibly the most cost effective way: Powered HDMI splitter 1 in: 2 out. 10m/15m/20m High Speed HDMI cable. Add an IR Injector Kit which passes an IR signal via the HDMI cable to allow the control of the lounge box from the bedroom TV. LINK

A couple of common alternatives:

HDMI splitter to wireless HDMI sender kit: Expensive and very variable results.

SCART to RF converter, then via aerial coax direct to the TV upstairs: Make sure to buy one with IR pass thru. Picture quality not that great. Relies on the bedroom TV having an analogue TV tuner. (Incidental info - If your aerial feed for the house comes in to the lounge and then goes back up to your loft box then you will be able to distribute this signal via the existing aerial cable, but you may lose IR control if the loftbox doesn't allow IR pass thru.)

 

[elsmore1]

Thank you I will look at these options. Its mainly for my wife to watch the recorded programmes from the YouView Box downstairs and watch them upstairs. I think the Tv only has a USB and no HDMI upstairs but its wall mounted so may have to check this later.

 

[Tony Kenley]

If anyone is having trouble getting a remote extender to work with the YouView+ box, I found a solution that worked. I'd originally tried IR over wireless RF (from Marmitek) which worked with everything except the Youview+. Tried calling BT, YouView and Humax but noone was able to offer a solution. Took a risk on ordering a cheap "IR over HDMI" solution for less than £10 and it worked perfectly.

 

[Lucid]

If an IR repeater works for most things except one then that might suggest a few possible causes.

• The first might be a faulty IR transmitter or IR receiver on the DVD/PVR/STB/Blu-ray player etc. Well that's easy enough to check by trying the remote direct on the device
  
• The second is dead or dying batteries in that handset. Again, that's simple enough to check by changing for fresh and making sure the battery terminals are clean

Once you've ruled out the simple stuff then it's time to get more techy. The first thing to understand is that not all IR signals are the same. They have a carrier frequency determined by the emitter/receiver sets. Most remote controls use an IR carrier frequency somewhere in the 30-60kHz range. For that reason devices such as Marmitek Powermid IR repeaters also work with IR in the 30-60kHz range. However, there are devices that work at higher frequencies. This is why B&O remote IR codes of old (and maybe the new ones still) were hard or impossible to learn in to those head-to-head programmable remotes. Those B&O remotes worked on IR carrier @ 455kHz. That's well outside the 30-60kHz window.

AFAIK, BT Youview+ boxes are made by Humax, and Humax tends to follow the industry pattern of sticking to broadly similar IR code bases within their product ranges. For that reason, you'll often find that the remote from one Humax model PVR will work a different model too.

Here's the IR string in Hex format for the Power Off command on a Humax PVR (7500T)

0000 006d 0000 0022 0150 00a8 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0040 0015 0040 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0015 0040 0015 0040 0015 0040 0015 0040 0015 0040 0015 0040 0015 0040 0015 0040 0015 0015 0015 0666

Because I have the right tools and knowledge I can tell that the carrier for this code set is at roughly 38kHz. That's well inside the 30-60kHz IR window for Marmitek.

Now unless some other firm is making YouView+ boxes, or Humax are doing something quirky with their codes e.g. toggle codes or unusually long strings, or their newer boxes use something at a higher frequency then I'd be looking at where the IR repeater's emitters are in relation to the YouView+ IR receiver window.

 

[fixo]

Do youview boxes not have CEC built in? Genuine question as I haven't used one before..might be an option assuming the splitter passes it through to the youview box and the TV supports it