This post will show how i wired up my house for Satellite multi-room, but first some history.
I have a number of satellite dishes on the side of my house, the first was installed around 1996 which was a 60cm dish for the Sky analog service on the Astra satellites at 19.2° East.
I then decided to pick up some additional channels so switched the prime focus of this dish to the Hot Bird satellites at 13° East and added a second LNB for Astra satellites at 19.2° East.
Around this time I also had a 90cm trackable dish installed so I could search the sky for additional channels, this uses a 24″ Superjack 36V actuator all connected to an Echostar LT-8700 receiver/positioner with an internal D2-Mac decoder.
Back then D2-Mac was pretty easy to hack and I used to upgrade a Galaxy PIC card about once a month so I could continue to decrypt all sorts of channels.
Around 1998 things moved to digital and a Sky mini-dish was installed for Sky Digital on Astra 2 at 28.2° East.
Around 2003 card sharing became the latest rage, with reveivers from Dreambox being the most stable platform using the Enigma2 Operating system, however these were a bit spendy.
In 2010-2011 a range of receivers from VU+ became available that also used Enigma2 and were much more affordable, it was at this point that I purchased a VU+ Ultimo Linux based receiver with 3 receiver modules.
On this I ran the BlackHole firmware and the oscam softcam for card sharing via an internet connection.
Around this time is when I decided to wire up the house for multi-room, I replaced the 40cm Sky mini-dish with a 60cm dish and a Quattro LNB then installed a Labgear LMS516Q multi-switch in the loft with drops to the various rooms in the house.
I chose to use modular triplex outlets from MK to match with the other sockets/switches in the house, and also allow me some flexibility with regards additional connections to a particular room.
I also purchased a couple of skybox satellite receivers for my kids bedrooms so that they could watch things like Nick Junior in their own rooms, these units were fraught with issues and both eventually died a couple of years later.
The Satellite wiring included transmission of TV and FM (and DAB, although this was not added until sometime later), the intended setup is shown in the following Visio drawing.
I never did buy the TV filters or setup the CCTV side of things. The wiring for the Cinema room also included the wires for the SuperJack actuator that went to a standalone DiSEQc positioner.
Card sharing started to die around 2016 as encryption methods moved on and has now fallen out of fashion with live streaming and readily available torrent downloads being cheaper and simpler options.
The DAB aerial was finally added in 2017 when I painted the outside of the house and had a scaffold tower that allowed me access to the roof.