Official - I have a Hopper 3 Thread!
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I officially have my Hopper 3 installed and running! Since I already had a Hopper system this install was very, very simple. I was able to do this over my lunch break although I was about 45 minutes late. Perks of being an owner, lol.
The install couldn't be much more simple. I just had to swap out the LNB which was a breeze. I did have to crawl on to the roof but it's pretty nice today and there wasn't any snow on it. Since I had two Hoppers I had three cables hooked up to the old LNB. It was nice only having to connect one to the new one. I also had my Dup Node outside but was able to bypass this now. I just unhooked the cables and used a barrel connector to have one cable into the house. Inside the house I had two Taps and I unhooked those and connected the right cables to the new Hub. I didn't have to run any new cables or anything. Just put the receivers in place and that basically the install process.
I only connected Hopper 3 and started it's download. This takes a bit. Once it finishes downloading it reboots and for some reason it downloads again. Once that's done you link the remote and call to activate. I actually did the online chat for my activation. About another 15 minutes and I had the Hopper activated and programming on. Then I plugged in the two Joeys and they started their downloads. At this point an hour and 45 minutes had passed and I had to get back to work.
Will mess around with it tonight and get back to everyone.
The install couldn't be much more simple. I just had to swap out the LNB which was a breeze. I did have to crawl on to the roof but it's pretty nice today and there wasn't any snow on it. Since I had two Hoppers I had three cables hooked up to the old LNB. It was nice only having to connect one to the new one. I also had my Dup Node outside but was able to bypass this now. I just unhooked the cables and used a barrel connector to have one cable into the house. Inside the house I had two Taps and I unhooked those and connected the right cables to the new Hub. I didn't have to run any new cables or anything. Just put the receivers in place and that basically the install process.
I only connected Hopper 3 and started it's download. This takes a bit. Once it finishes downloading it reboots and for some reason it downloads again. Once that's done you link the remote and call to activate. I actually did the online chat for my activation. About another 15 minutes and I had the Hopper activated and programming on. Then I plugged in the two Joeys and they started their downloads. At this point an hour and 45 minutes had passed and I had to get back to work.
Will mess around with it tonight and get back to everyone.
The tech just left from doing the Hopper 3 install. Its been just over 24 hours from ordering to being up and running.
I was contacted by DIRT yesterday morning off the waiting list. The chat was quick and easy and there was no charge for the service visit and no charge for the Hopper 3. I did get 3 additional 4K Joeys which were the usual $50 each. The install was scheduled for this morning (8 to noon time slot) and the tech showed up at about 8:30. He apologized right away saying he had not done a Hopper 3 install but promissed to work though it. As he got started he had a few questions and called a few other techs, but no one had done one yet either, so he just forged ahead. He commented a couple of times how easy the install was compared to when he first started doing the original hopper. 4 hours later i'm up and running with even the guide populating right away. He was going to take the old Hoppers, but I asked and he had no problem leaving them and the remotes. He even hooked up my external drive and started the process of transfering the content I havent had a chance to play with it much yet, but the few things I have done seemed very intuitive with the UI. I'll report back once I get a few days under my belt. A big thanks to the DIRT team for making this process so esay and to Dish for sending out a great tech.
I was contacted by DIRT yesterday morning off the waiting list. The chat was quick and easy and there was no charge for the service visit and no charge for the Hopper 3. I did get 3 additional 4K Joeys which were the usual $50 each. The install was scheduled for this morning (8 to noon time slot) and the tech showed up at about 8:30. He apologized right away saying he had not done a Hopper 3 install but promissed to work though it. As he got started he had a few questions and called a few other techs, but no one had done one yet either, so he just forged ahead. He commented a couple of times how easy the install was compared to when he first started doing the original hopper. 4 hours later i'm up and running with even the guide populating right away. He was going to take the old Hoppers, but I asked and he had no problem leaving them and the remotes. He even hooked up my external drive and started the process of transfering the content I havent had a chance to play with it much yet, but the few things I have done seemed very intuitive with the UI. I'll report back once I get a few days under my belt. A big thanks to the DIRT team for making this process so esay and to Dish for sending out a great tech.
I just tried to connect my iPad and computer to the Hopper 3 and stream live TV. I am at work. When I attempted to connect the 2nd device there was an error stating another device was streaming and I could take over the stream.
one quick question on the 50 dollars for each joey 4k is that billed or must you pay installer?
thanks
jeff
thanks
jeff
Be the first to post your review on YouTube. It's just over 24 hours & not one user review there yet so you could still be first in that category.
It should work fine. Everybody that upgraded from the old Hoppers says it works.
Tried pairing the 40.0 but cannot get it to. On the diagnostic page and pressing sat button on 40.0. No luck.
I had luck moving closer to hopper and continuing to try. Maybe a fluke but worth a try
It would be harder for me to figure out how to do that than it was to install my Hopper. lol
Did you unpair it first? If not it still thinks it's paired to your old Hopper.
Press sysinfo on hopper3 then press sat on remote then it should be paired. At least i did this way.
Son of a....no, forgot to do that and that hopper is gone. No biggie, I took pictures of the timers. Thanks Sherrman. Appreciate it.
Search as someone posted a way to unpair a remote without the reciever yesterday.
To manually unpair Hopper remote:
Hold sat till all light up
Hold Recall and 0 for 3 secs
Press search
Press vol +
Press stop
Wait 5 secs for tone
