To recap. The HR54 was hooked to the red port on the splitter .The other red port went to the lnb. The remaining port on the splitter went to the HR24. Last night both the HR54 and the HR24 were operating ok. Today I turned on the HR54 and all was well. Later in the day, I turned on the HR24 and it was a mess. I changed channels, turned the 24 off and on and it remained a mess.
I turned everything OFF, unhooked the coax from the 54 and hooked the coax to the PI. Plugged in the pi to the wall outlet and got a green light. I turned on the 24 and it now was working great. I ran a coax jumper from the PI to the 54 and its working great. I have no idea what happened overnite but using a external PI corrected it, so I'am going to leave it as is.
Thanks for all the help
SSTV