Trouble slaving a second tv to a receiver.

[jmyoung]

I have a VIP211 (I think that is right) at home in my bedroom. When I built my house 2 years ago I tried to plan ahead as much as possible I ran co-ax cable from a box next to where the satellite cable is out into a box in my kitchen, purchased adapters and wall plates and have RCA jacks in both locations. I use HDMI between the receiver and tv on the wall in the bedroom but the audio and video signal coming thru the RCA jacks has always been hit or miss. There's no reason the receiver isn't putting a strong signal out both outputs is there?

I have the same problem in my basement...

 

[KAB]

A little fuzzy. Where is the 211 located? Is the kitchen TV the one you are connecting with RCA?

 

[jmyoung]

The 211 is in the bedroom and bedroom tv hooked up with HDMI. RCA outs on 211 go to wall plate that is wired to kitchen and kitchen tv slaved to receiver with rca jacks.

 

[KAB]

Did you check that your RCA plugs are properly fitted on the coax and color coded? Do you plug them (male to female) on the back side of the wall plate? Are they a straight run, no splits? FYI, you could have used Cat6 cable instead of coax. Oh, and define "Hit & Miss".

 

[jmyoung]

The way the wall plate adaptors work, they're coax fittings on the back side and RCA on the front. There are no splitters, no splices. Isn't CAT 5 networking cable an 8 conductor networking cable? I used shielded coax cabling. By hit and miss I mean that some times I have picture and sound, sometimes just picture, sometimes just sound and nothing physically changes and nothing gets moved... I've even trimmed the ends of the cables and put new coax fittings on them to ensure that there wasn't a connection problem. One thing I keep forgetting to do is to take my tone generator home and check that somehow someway the wire hasn't broken inside the insulation...

 

[KAB]

Isn't CAT 5 networking cable an 8 conductor networking cable?

Yep, and great for making slim, long-run RCA cables (four wires per plug). In your case you would have run two, as opposed to three coax.