How to get sound from my TVs through my unity

It would be better the use the TV audio output rather than the Sky box,  that way the audio is only what's on the screen.   Depending on your TV & what the outputs are,  I would go for a digital feed & ideally optical to avoid any possibility of ground loop hum.   

doesn't your TV has an digital Out?

This is the right answer. I use the Digital Optical Out from my TV into a Uniti 2 and it sounds as good as a TV signal could produce to my ears

Output's?

The Sky box should have a pair of RCA phonos for analogue audio output and coaxial and optical outputs for digital output.  You may well need to switch these on in the setup menu of the SKY box (I don't know for sure as I'm not a SKY user) and, in the case of the digital outputs, you may need to set the output to 2 channel PCM rather than multichannel bitstream.  This is because the DAC in the Uniti is a 2 channel PCM DAC.

If it's a Sky HD box, you don't need to switch the analogue audio feed on because it is on all the time.  But you will almost certainly find that the picture is delayed compared to the sound and there is nothing you can do about that using the analogue outputs from the Sky box.

If you take a digital feed from the TV, then the sound and video will probably be in sync, but I understand why that isn't convenient for your installation.

There is another option, which is to take a digital feed from the Sky box.  You may find this is out of sync with the video too, because of video processing time delays in your TV.  Sky make provision for you to adjust the time delay on the digital sound output. This is accessible through the Services - Setup - Audio on your Sky box.

finally I vaguely remember that you need to enable the input in the Uniti, but I could be wrong and I haven't checked this.  Since your straight analogue connection didn't work and it won't be an issue at the Sky box end, I sugliest you check that in the Uniti manual first.

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David

The stuff about input socket set up is on p10 of the Uniti 2 reference manual on Naim's website.

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David

Kev, how are you connecting (from which sockets to which sockets and with what cable) between the SKY box and the Uniti?

OK, assuming you also get nothing through Uniti inputs AN 2 and AN 3 (do make sure they are enabled in the Uniti setup menu) then I can only think that either the cable is faulty or the SKY box is faulty.  Have you tried connection another source (CD player, iPod etc.) to check that the Uniti inputs are OK?

Kev

i think you still need to make sure that the Analog 1 input on your Uniti is enabled.  I don't mean selected on the front panel, obviously that too, but the circuitry inside also has to be told to connect to the socket on the outside.

Your Uniti 1 may be slightly different to the following, but this will give you the idea what you have to do.

 You start by pressing the setup (wrench/spanner) button on the Uniti remote, scroll down to Inputs, select that with the OK button, then scroll down to Analogue 1, press ok again, then the top option should be "Enabled" and it should say "Yes". If it doesn't say yes then you need to press ok again and change no to yes. Then you can back out of setup by pressing the exit button on the remote until you are back at your normal display.

If the input did say no to enabled then you will probably find it works now. If the input already said yes to enabled, then we need to think some more.

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David

And no you don't need another lead as well as the red and white photos lead.

Good! Always great to know a problem is solved.

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David

Good news. Pleased that the problem is solved.