Freesat and IPTV amalgamation

[digi999]

Hi all

long time member of the site and used to be HUGELY into the old Technomate boxes with using the old N Lines (no idea if that's still a thing!) Ok I've finally sacked off Sky and I was hoping someone was doing the same as i want to do. I'd like a box (multi tuner) where I can mix Freesat channels with IPTV ( for example if I select ITV then it uses freesat but lets say i select a movie channel it flicks seamlessly to IPTV) all of this with an EPG and menu system that's near as damn to the SKY interface!

In terms of box cost I was thinking sub £400 but obviously if you guys suggest box X for £500 and its an all singing one Id be happy to push out further!

Many thanks in advance

 

[grog68]

Any 4k enigma2 box should handle that, how the IPTV is installed on the box though would depend on your provider

 

[Ferret.]

Hi all

long time member of the site and used to be HUGELY into the old Technomate boxes with using the old N Lines (no idea if that's still a thing!) Ok I've finally sacked off Sky and I was hoping someone was doing the same as i want to do. I'd like a box (multi tuner) where I can mix Freesat channels with IPTV ( for example if I select ITV then it uses freesat but lets say i select a movie channel it flicks seamlessly to IPTV) all of this with an EPG and menu system that's near as damn to the SKY interface!

In terms of box cost I was thinking sub £400 but obviously if you guys suggest box X for £500 and its an all singing one Id be happy to push out further!

Many thanks in advance

With that type of money look at the Gigablue & VU+ FBC Tuner boxes.

These FBC Tuner boxes coupled with a Unicable II LNB will give you 8 tuners 2 Hardware 6 Virtual that combination would have no restriction when it comes to recording and viewing at the same time.

With the right plugin you can set up a custom mix so Fressat would be via the tuners and anything that would be encrypted via IPTV. Im no expert on that but we have many that are on this forum that would be able to direct you.

 

[browney]

This is something I keep meaning to look into doing

I'll have to read the guides here

I basically wanna use my old sly q dish and buy a box.

 

[formandvoid]

This is something I keep meaning to look into doing

I'll have to read the guides here

I basically wanna use my old sly q dish and buy a box.

I think you would need to swap your sky q dish as it wont work.

 

[browney]

I think you would need to swap your sky q dish as it wont work.

Never as easy as the idea :)

 

[formandvoid]

Never as easy as the idea :)

It;s no problem to swap the dish . You might just be able to swap the LNB. Maybe someone else can comment on this as I,m not sure if dish is the same.

 

[digi999]

Thank you for your replies! So I assume an easier way would be to have a simple Freesat bouquet and the IPTV as thier own individual bouquets (movies etc). I seem to remember an IPTV provider on here that supplied an enigma setup script that you basically ran and it set up the whole thing (sky skin etc)

Many thanks again guys. I'll get to swotting up on the best images for Gigablue and VU+ boxes!

 

[mikeyeah]

It;s no problem to swap the dish . You might just be able to swap the LNB. Maybe someone else can comment on this as I,m not sure if dish is the same.

Yes SKY Q use Wideband LNB, so you would need to swap out the LNB first.

 

[Ferret.]

This is something I keep meaning to look into doing

I'll have to read the guides here

I basically wanna use my old sly q dish and buy a box.

All you would need to do is swap out the LNB at worst dish is fine.

 

[Alex456]

All you would need to do is swap out the LNB at worst dish is fine.

Reading online when swapping the LNB on a dish used for Sky Q, putting a Hybrid LNB in its place am I right to assume this would give you the best of both options?

 

[Ferret.]

Reading online when swapping the LNB on a dish used for Sky Q, putting a Hybrid LNB in its place am I right to assume this would give you the best of both options?

It would but if you do buy a receiver with FBC tuners your missing out on the benefits of the tuner combined with a Unicable LNB.

Of course FBC tuners will work with the Hybrid LNB but you wont get the 8 tuners you would with a Unicable LNB or have the ability to split off the single feed from a Unicable LNB into other receivers.