That's just what I would expect a standard MX7000  to do. It won't switch your sky box on unless you have a STB controller fitted and I would be surprised indeed if it did. You will need to use the Sky remote to control the sky box.

From memory (!) you will need to set AV2 to Sat, then connect your sky box to AV2 with the scart cable. Now turn your sky box on with the sky remote.

Pressing TV on the remote should get you analogue through the aerial and SAT on the remote should activate AV2 and display the satellite signal.

There were two versions of MX7000 software. One for the Beolink 1000 and one for the Beo4. I would suggest that your software is the issue for the Beolink 1000.

Now, all this rambling has been from memory and it's 2-3 years lost in the bank ......so.......if someone comes along and tells the pair of us that I'm talking utter rubbish then I'm man enough to take it and I apologise!!

Thanks for the prompt reply,  but I have set the av2 socket to decoder and pressing sat does nothing!

When I access the menu only two options are displayed instead of 4 I thought your diagnosis of it being a beolink 1000 version sounds most likely.

The only way I managed to get sky up it was to use the cdv in the list menu!

Any ideas?  Thanks Nick

Decoder is no good as a setup option. The sky box is not a decoder although I've never managed to work out just what a decoder is!!

If you dont get SAT as a setup option then just set it up as vtape since most people do not have videos nowadays.

Thanks I will try that!

go to menu, then setup, your choices are :

AV1 :   off  /  V.TP-1 + Decoder / V.Tape-1  /  V.Tape-1  B&O  /   off

AV2 :  off  /  Expander / Decoder / CDV / V-Tape-2 / V-Tape-2 B&O / V.Aux / off

S-VHS :   off /  V.TP-1  +  Decoder   /  off

If you are using a Sky box with a scart connector, just plug it into AV2 scart on the back of the MX7000 and select CDV

Then to use CDV ( Sky box ) as a source,  press SHIFT , then SAT on the Beolink 1000 remote

I have the complete Video System 7000 -  comprises of Beovision MX7000, Beocord VX7000, Beosat LM ( Sat Module )  and the Beolink 1000 remote.  We recently moved and junked Sky in favour of Virgin, so we now plug the V-Box into the back of the VX7000 video recorder, and that works really well using AV1 using the selection V.Tape-1  B&O, and the VX7000 is used as a pass through for the Virgin box to get to the MX7000 as a source.

We also have a DVD player plugged into AV2, and setup to use CDV, in order to select this as a source though, we have to press SHIFT then SAT on the remote.

Hope that gives you some more to go on  :-)

joeyboygolf wrote:

I've never managed to work out just what a decoder is  !

on the MX7000 it is used in a more European sense of the word I imagine, where they connect a baseband decoder ( cable TV ) to the AV2 scart, or if you use an RF Decoder ( using an RF aerial like Feeview ) , then you still connect the scart cable to the MX7000 AV2 connector, but make sure you use the scart on the Freeview box marked  VTR  ( not the TV scart connector ) .

joeyboygolf wrote:

If you dont get SAT as a setup option then just set it up as vtape since most people do not have videos nowadays.

well not quite, the only two options that a Sky box will work on AV2 are :  Expander and CDV

AV2 :  off  /  Expander / Decoder / CDV / V-Tape-2 / V-Tape-2 B&O / V.Aux / off

Thanks so I may not be able to put the sky box on as a v tape?  I had it set up as cdv but its for my in laws and it would be a lot of messing for them!  With regards to pressing list on the beo4 repeatedly.

Could I use the e prom out of the my mx6000 which is a later set with all four options in the menu?

Cheers Nick

you would be better off buying a VX7000 ( whether the tape works or not ) , and plugging the Sky box into the back of the VX7000, then they could just press VTAPE on the Beo4 and the Sky Channels would just go through the VX7000

http://www.beoworld.org/prod_details.asp?pid=832

that's what we do using Virgin and the V-Box ( same as Sky really ) , as I tried to explain in my earlier post !