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Gardening mishap
Jun. 17th, 2015 07:21 pmSo I was chopping back the vegetation that was encroaching on the path in my back garden when something thin and black moved beneath my shears. I had just chopped through a cable connecting my Sky satellite dish to the box.
For those that don't know, there are usually two cables connecting the dish to the box so that you can record two programmes simultaneously, or record one whilst watching another, so I can still get Sky, just not as conveniently as usual. The other cable is stapled to the wall at about waist height, so it was well away from my shears.
Fortunately, I have a Sky Protect repair contract. Surprisingly, they say they'll send an engineer out Sunday to fix it.
UPDATE
The other feed from the dish failed last night. I can't think why. And it turns out you can't reboot a Sky box without a satellite signal, so now I can't even see my previously recorded programmes.
FURTHER UPDATE
Somebody on Cix suggested swapping the input connectors around on the back of the box. Seems that input 1 was the one that was cut and if that is not available it eventually fails to detect the other input. And that has solved the problem for now.
For those that don't know, there are usually two cables connecting the dish to the box so that you can record two programmes simultaneously, or record one whilst watching another, so I can still get Sky, just not as conveniently as usual. The other cable is stapled to the wall at about waist height, so it was well away from my shears.
Fortunately, I have a Sky Protect repair contract. Surprisingly, they say they'll send an engineer out Sunday to fix it.
UPDATE
The other feed from the dish failed last night. I can't think why. And it turns out you can't reboot a Sky box without a satellite signal, so now I can't even see my previously recorded programmes.
FURTHER UPDATE
Somebody on Cix suggested swapping the input connectors around on the back of the box. Seems that input 1 was the one that was cut and if that is not available it eventually fails to detect the other input. And that has solved the problem for now.
