Sky TV and the caravan.

[Thingy]

Calling the experts........................

I have currently SkyQ on subscription at home and I want the most cost effective way of getting Sky into the van. I really dont want to take my SkyQ box away with me because of the way I have things setup at home.

How do you guys do it as I believe (maybe wrongly) that the card is registered to the individual box.

 

[Woodentop]

Toddle along to your local Cash Converters and get yourself a used Sky multiroom box - much smaller and light than a Sky+HD box as it has no hard drive. Cost less than £20 with remote and a guarantee Without a card it will show BBC1 London on 101 and Central West Midlands on 103: if you are lucky it will have an expired viewing card in it which will have the right channels on 101/103 for your area, otherwise buy a card (once off charge of about £20) from Freesat-from-Sky.
This will give you all of the standard FTA channels and quite a few more. However you will not be able to view any subscription channels be they 'normal' or premium.

Once activated any card will work in any box for Freesat use; I think - but I may be wrong - that a card that does not have movies or sport (i.e. no premium services) should also work in any box once activated.

 

[Dustydog]

Hi Thingy
I used to do what Woodentop suggested but soon realised not only were we being cheated but SWMBO couldn't watch all her Sports programmes. I currently have a SKY + HD box. It takes 30 seconds to disconnect from home and reinstall. Setting up in the caravan is just as easy as I installed all the cabling years ago. Setting up the portable dish is dead easy too . You see leaving it at home for weeks on end was still costing me the SKY subscription and we had no benefit

 

[Thingy]

Woodentop, thanks for that but not really what I was after.

I want to get my subscription channels for the sport, Im paying for them, might as well watch them.
Its unfortunate that most caravan sites wifi arent up to streaming, I did think of taking the Amazon firestick with Kodi/wookie installed, but to be fair to other users, it would hog what bandwitdth was available and of course it would be very jumpy to watch.

I did see those cheap dishes available at Aldi from time to time, are they up to the job?