Dish now allows multiple Hoppers. Second home, campers, etc.
Can't have any ViP receivers on Hopper accounts (other than a single, owned 211k.) Using receivers at two different homes at the same time is referred to as account stacking. If you are caught doing this all but the primary receiver on the account will be disabled. Dish has recently started to audit homes they suspect could be stacking. Your only option is using the 211k temporarily or bringing a receiver back and forth between homes and not using receivers at the same time in the two different homes. Only way around these limitations are two accounts.
3HaloODST, It isn't considered account stacking when you are the owner of the other property. (a summer cabin/vacation home/etc) - Funny you should mention "Dish has recently started auditing..." Maybe you mean "has recently re-started or bumped up their ongoing auditing) I was audited about 7 years ago over the phone. If I remember right I had 5 or 6 Dish 500's on my account back when our kids lived with us. 1 bedroom, 1 office, 1 living room, 1 kids room, 1 in my shop (often swapped into camper - technically located at a different address but within walking distance). The audit department asked me go from room to room reading off some code from each dish and asking me to define where in the house the receiver was located. Funny thing is we have a wiring closet, so they were all located "in the closet" and on channel modulators fed via coax to every TV in the house. So basically, I just sat at one TV an went from channel 22, 24, 26, 28, 30 reading off the code they wanted. The tech actually said "Wow, you keep all 5 in a closet and modulate the channel around the house? No one does that, that is pretty cool.
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Anyway, there were five inside the house, and I told them the walk to the shop would take 1 minute and they didn't like that (It was actually installed on the camper trailer at that time but I used to take it out and plug it into another dish on the shop roof) - so they said, well we can't verify this camper unit so we'll have to cancel it. I said "ok listen, I'm going to keep you on the line, walk over, start the camper and pull it out of the shop, turn on the mini auto-aiming dish so you can hear it and give you the code of the screen". After that they cleared it. So they've been auditing for a very long time. Since then our kids have moved out, and dual+ tuner DVR's have come along so we only want 2 Hoppers (1 house, 1 shop) and the 211 we leave in the camper trailer.
Also on that note, I know a friend of mine has a 722 at home and a 722 in their cabin in the hills and they legally own the cabin. They actually called Dish to schedule the appt explaining the cabin was a second home and Dish had no problem with it. Maybe they have some database to look up actual owner of an address to prevent user A from installing on friends house B? They even plugged it into their cabin's phone line which I know the receivers call in on those, but they were ok with it.
Or tell the tech to activate them, but not install them.
The installer didn't even have to do that. He just called his company (or maybe it was Dish) and said "Hopper installed. Joey wasn't needed, so take that off the install order".
