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Sky Booster/BT HomeHub 2 set up not working

Hi, hope I'm in the right place to ask this question, any guidance at all is greatly appreciated!
I recently got a "mancave/office" out the backdoor to ease me working from home.
A sky engineer who is a friend of a friend came on his day off to install the broadband to work from the manacle (he wired up a Sky booster so that SkyQ could work there and also my laptop and other devices).
Problems began when Sky Mini Boxes began to drop out on Saturday night so I looked online and decided to switch off "smart" and to switch off my 5GHZ.
I done this and straight away my Sky Booster stopped showing up to connect devices to outside, so I switched back on.
Nothing is connecting to the Sky Booster apart from Sky Q, any other device it won't show up in the Wifi list to connect to. I'm constantly messing around with BT HH2 settings but can't do anything to bring it back. I really am not that experienced to be doing this, should I contact BT to send out engineer or is there something I can do myself? Hope I've explained myself okay - really frustrating - just want everything to work!
 
Common issue. The Home Hub has allocated itself a 2.4 and 5Mhz channel probably to 1 and 36 default.

Problem is the Sky kit wants to use 36 to establish its connectivity and depending on the Sky settings may wish to use 40 and 44. Sky uses more than one channel to increase the bandwidth.

The auto scan on kit is OK normally but if there are conflicts you need to ensure the various sources are set to avoid them. You can use a basic WIFI scanning app to see what channels are being used in different parts of the house. For 2.4 use a band that is clear at the router and the farthest point in your house to avoid interference from neighbours.

There are a number of combinations that can be used with Sky kit but the easiest thing to try is:
  • Set the HH2 5Mhz to manual Channel 48 so it will be clear of the Sky kit use.
  • Check the Sky Q setting is Channel 36 (80Mhz).
  • Ensure the Mini box is connecting via the Sky connection and not trying via Home WIFI (2.4Mhz).
  • Use an ethernet internet connection to the Sky Q if you can
  • Distances/Barriers between Sky boxes has to be practical
Note: BT HH2 only supports lower 5Mhz bands.
 
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