Is there such a thing as a wireless aerial connection?

[kandgmitchell]

Hi,

 

So we planned the new house out fully before construction including locations for aerial outlets and data.

 

However, after moving in we have decided that the furniture layout we thought would work, doesn't. The change involves moving the TV to the opposite diagonal of the living room. We can get the TV to connect to the hub via wireless but need to get an aerial connection across for the Humax box to work. We've only been in for six months and the last thing I want to do is run an aerial cable around the skirtings to the proposed TV location - this is meant to be a clean, fresh, minimalist hi-tech home!!

 

Can you get a gadget to jump a signal from a traditional TV aerial from the wall socket to another gizmo across the room without a cable?

 

Cheers

[Nickfromwales]

You can jump the generated picture from a set top box, with AV senders, but you can’t ping the coax TV signal I’m afraid. 
 

Skirtings and architraves off, run the cable, pop ‘em back on. 
 

😢

[ProDave]

You can get a wireless "video sender" and then put your Humax in cupboard something like this picked as a random example  https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/296798670157

 

Then to enable you to control your Humax, now hidden away in a cupboard an IR remote contol extender https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235946596471

[kandgmitchell]

18 minutes ago, Nickfromwales said:

but you can’t ping the coax TV signal I’m afraid. 

Ah, that's what I wanted to do........ bother.......

 

19 minutes ago, Nickfromwales said:

Skirtings and architraves off, run the cable, pop ‘em back on. 
 

Mmmm.... decorated and carpeted room in a newly finished and moved in build. I'll let you suggest that to my wife!

[ProDave]

But you mentioned the Humax box, If all you want to watch is available from that (live or recorded) then put it in a cupboard where an aerial connection is available and use the 2 gadgets I linked to to connect it. 

 

Most of my "set top boxes" are in the under stairs cupboard.

[Nickfromwales]

49 minutes ago, kandgmitchell said:

Ah, that's what I wanted to do........ bother.......

 

Mmmm.... decorated and carpeted room in a newly finished and moved in build. I'll let you suggest that to my wife!

If carpeted you can run just inside the grippers, router out at the doorways (worst case). I’d have that done in a day with very little fuss / mess tbh. 
 

Kind of job that sounds worse than it is, and one people spend too much time worrying about vs just doing it, and the reality is maybe 2 days disruption including chasing and filling the walls ready to repaint.

 

Hopefully it was your missis who wanted the room swapped around lol.  🤞😜

[Pocster]

Most terrestrial tv can be streamed .

[G and J]

4 hours ago, Pocster said:

Most terrestrial tv can be streamed .

Big time.  I switched off our digibox three years ago.  18 months ago I disconnected the aerial.  So we rely solely on streaming now, and will do so in the new pad.  
 

I think there are solutions to watching a recorders output in other rooms, but it might be worth taking a step back and looking seriously at whether you need a digibox at all nowadays.

[SteamyTea]

I cured the cabling problem by getting rid of the TV, 31 years ago.

 

[Beau]

Get a Freely compatible TV?    'No dish, no box no need for an arial'   

 

  https://www.freely.co.uk/

Edited February 9 by Beau

[Pocster]

If you have Apple TV box , there’s an app that shows pretty much all the terrestrial channels . Have to purchase the app - but I think it was like 6 quid . Basically it brings all the seperate app/channels together e.g iPlayer etc etc 

Works pretty good . Best thing is it shows all channels with what’s on now and next I.e like terrestrial or a digibox so it’s SWMBO friendly !

[JohnMo]

2 hours ago, SteamyTea said:

I cured the cabling problem by getting rid of the TV, 31 years ago.

 

But your sad, the rest of us are just dull and boring and like to watch TV.

[kandgmitchell]

That's what I like about this site. The advice goes from "get rid of the TV altogether" through the practical "fit behind the carpet gripper" to the high tech stuff suggested by ProDave. All of it useful, well perhaps not losing the TV, that may be going a bit far......

 

I'll look at the carpet edge, we have form for this this. In the last house I arranged for the re-wire to include data on one side of the large lounge fireplace because that's where we expected the TV and other gubbins to go. After a few months of actually living in the place we realised that it was the other side which was better. Luckily it was pre- new carpets and I routed out a cable route in the floor boards. 

 

It just goes to show that no matter how well you plan, it's not until you've been using a house to actually live in do you get to understand how the space works for you.

 

 

[ProDave]

On 09/02/2025 at 06:38, Beau said:

Get a Freely compatible TV?    'No dish, no box no need for an arial'   

 

  https://www.freely.co.uk/

I looked at that.  I mostly watch tv via a satellite box, but it only has 2 tuners so can record 2 things or record one while you watch another channel.  Occasionally there are 3 things I want to watch at the same time so I let the box record 2 of them and watch the third on freeview (via the normal tv aerial) but our freeview signal is pretty poor and sometimes unwatchable.

 

So this freely app to easily watch live tv via the internet looked a good idea for that situation.  BUT it is not available on a firestick.  WHY?  it makes no sense whatsoever.