OTA Adapter

[Bobby]

question /? would the old dish adapter work on the H3?

Provided the old OTA adapter came from a Hopper or 211Z, yes....

 

[DWS44]

Do I need 2 ota turner adapters or just one

You only need one, as the Hopper will only accept one. The OTA channels will then be available at all TV locations with Hoppers and/or Joeys.

 

[Bobby]

You only need one, as the Hopper will only accept one. The OTA channels will then be available at all TV locations with Hoppers and/or Joeys.

I think it is also important to say that you can only watch one OTA channel at a time on any or all Hoppers any Joeys. So, if you are watching OTA channel 2 on a Hopper or Joey that is the only channel that can be viewed from any location at any given time. You can't watch channel 2 on a Hopper and channel 3 on a Joey at the same time.

 

[sam_gordon]

This is purely and categorically incorrect. The USB dongle is the tuner, not the Hopper. To support ATSC 3.0 will require a new dongle for sure. Theoretically it is possible that the Hopper (or at least the Hopper 3 since it has USB 3) could support ATSC 3.0, with the required dongle, with just a software update. There is no OTA tuning hardware within the Hopper itself.

My mistake. I had assumed the USB dongle was just an adaptor and the tuner was in the Hopper.

 

[Pepper]

Looking on ebay where there are now some of these dual tuner OTA adapters available, there seem to be two model numbers. 212-553 and 610-001. Some listings show 610-001 in a package that only mentions Wally while other listings say it works on both Hopper and Wally.

Is there a difference other than one coming in retail packaging and the other not?