If you’re considering getting Sky in different rooms of your house, there are basically three ways you can do this: Do NOT run the RF coaxial cable alongside any mains power cable! The interference from the mains can stop the "eye" from working, or make it unreliable. Also note that if you’re feeding to lots of TV sets, or have a very long cable run, you may need either a splitter or booster to allow you to split and amplify the aerial co-ax output, without too much quality loss. If you have no Sky TV picture on your second TV, then you may have to perform a channel scan on the TV. You will have to make sure your TV is tuned to the RF Channel frequency that was in the RF outlets screen. Otherwise you will get no picture on your TV.

If you’ve made an aerial connection from your Sky box to a second TV, the next thing you may want to do, is be able to change channels on your Sky box remotely from the second room.

Your Sky Magic Eye should now have it’s red light illuminated, indicating it is receiving power from the Sky +HD digibox and should be working. Tune your secondary TV set to the same UHF number (or find it by autoscanning in the TV analogue menu). Note that some TV sets can not tune to 69. Finally, position the little infrared pod somewhere in range of where you plan to point the remote control – normally next to your TV. With a Sky TV Link, also known as a Magic Eye, you can change your Sky channels from another room. Here’s some help and advice on how to use one

Can be used in conjunction with link amplifiers and certain distribution amplifiers to work a number of sky magic eyes off a single Sky boxIf you see intererference or a grainy Sky picture on your secondary TV, you have chosen a UHF channel number that is already in use. Return to the secret Installer menu and try a different number.

Access the ‘hidden / secret’ Sky Installers setup menu. This is done by pressing the following buttons: I’m keen to avoid the ‘Sky’ solution of mini boxes as I have wall mounted TVs and keen to avoid the additional monthly premium. To do this, get a Sky TV Link/Eye. This plugs in between the aerial cable and your second TV set, and has a little infrared eye that you position near your TV. When you point a Sky remote at the eye, the signal shoots down the aerial wire to the Sky box, and changes channel. The IO-LINK module is designed to feed a single tvLINK magic eye and remote TV only. (Other makes of magic eye should work but have not yet been tested. Please let us know if you use a different type and find it works reliably - or otherwise.)

How To Install A Magic Remote Eye To View Sky Box In Another Room

On Sky handset access the hidden installer menu by pressing. 'Services', 0,0,1 'Select'. You will then need to find the RF output power and switch this to on.