[16:02] <penguin42> bit chilly out there
[16:06] <zxmpi> tis
[16:07] <zxmpi> and looking like it will last next 10 days or so here in dublin https://www.theweatheroutlook.com/forecast/10day/dublin
[16:08] <penguin42> I assume similar here
[21:32] <davef> Meanwhile https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/qc-147_metric_e.html
[21:49] <penguin42> I really should just hibernate
[23:28] <zxmpi> i dunno, does hibernate work with linux these days? :-P
[23:29] <daftykins> :)
[23:30] <daftykins> i was brave and attended the pesky clients yesterday to wire up coax and reinstate the Sky Q system at the house he moved to
[23:30] <daftykins> thankfully i had the foresight to take a multimeter, and immediately discover a short on the coax the electrician had installed!
[23:30] <zxmpi> coax, the best networking cables :-D
[23:31] <daftykins> i remember it well!
[23:31] <zxmpi> range was 150m iirc easy
[23:40] <daftykins> i had fun reaching into the back of this TV unit cubby and pulling out the offending keystone jacks to rectify the short, then continue plumbing that sucker in
[23:41] <daftykins> then i saw the client had thrown away extra cat6 patch cables for use in the cupboard with the main switch
[23:41] <daftykins> i think i worked out why he was trying to give away his kids playstation too, no room for it in the unit below the largest TV at the new place... must have tried to ditch it to avoid it becoming a subject
[23:42] <daftykins> pretty crazy if correct
[23:43] <zxmpi> rich people throwing out good hardware has been a source of a lot of equipment for me :-)
[23:44] <daftykins> yeah, although thats the kids stuff... pretty horrifying
[23:48] <penguin42> daftykins: What does Sky Q use coax for - to satellite?
[23:49] <daftykins> yep so the primary box uses twin feeds up to a dSCR switcher in a room cupboard, then 4 separates go up to the dish
[23:49] <daftykins> then miniboxes around the property tune into the primary over the network, pretty cunning really
[23:50] <daftykins> i think the main can tune into 6+ separate channels concurrently in that arrangement
[23:51] <penguin42> is all the satellitey stuff done at the main box then - so that's the only one with coax?
[23:51] <daftykins> yep
[23:52] <penguin42> ok makes sense, what's a 'dSCR switcher' ?
[23:53] <daftykins> the one that can take the 4 independant coax feeds from the fancy quattro LNB and split them out to legacy or dSCR outputs
[23:53] <daftykins> one mo i have a pic to grab the model from
[23:54] <daftykins> https://www.chesterdigitalsupplies.co.uk/triax-tmds-42c
[23:54] <daftykins> or even better - https://cdn.ecommercedns.uk/files/6/244316/0/39705320/triax-tmds-42c-dscr-multiswitch.jpg
[23:54] <daftykins> so in this case on the lower right i have 2 feeds piped to the sky Q box, then the upper two labelled legacy are piped out to two TVs with freesat
[23:57] <penguin42> where does the terrestrial signal come from?
[23:59] <daftykins> i don't know in this case if this one is referring to being able to pipe antenna so freeview down the same lines, maybe... but there's no input on it for that, so i'm not sure how that'd be integrated
[23:59] <daftykins> yeah spec sheet says terrestrial, FM, DAB signal path