Recent content by jerrym303

Good to hear on the firestick. What phone/tablet are you using to cast?

The internet service is shared among the condos and streaming won't work at night. The wifi within the condo is probably OK. I have seen mixed comments about dishanywhere working with the firestick and Amazon making things difficult. I do plan to try out an Android tablet with chromecast, but...

Hi, I would like to take recordings on vacation to watch in the condo we rent. I successfully transferred several test programs to my iphone and got them to play well. The problem is getting them to the TV. I saw in an early 2018 thread that Dish ahd disabled the ability to connect to the TV...

I am just now upgrading to a Hopper and thought that I would upgrade my EHD to a USB 3.0. I decided to put an internal drive in a cooled enclosure. Doing lots of research, I found that the WD red NAS drives are the most frequently recommended drives for DVRs and I have had the best luck with...

Hopefully this is my last question before I talk with Dish about the upgrades. To determine if I need a tech to install our new equipment, I wanted to check the status of our dish accuracy because re-pointing is the only part that I would not do myself. We have had some loss of signal at times...

Hi Tritron, I am no expert on the promo deals, but I can tell you that taxes are pretty minimal. Our bill totals about $121 and total taxes run $2.73. We are in Broomfield. Jerry

Hi Navychop, The Harmony remotes we use are strictly IR. I will be able to control one Dish unit (Hopper or Joey) with the Harmony remotes along with everything else at each TV location. This can happen at all 5 locations due my central IR hub. For the second Dish unit (Hopper or Joey), I...

I will need to run one unit IR and one unit RF due to the fixed remote 1 address in both the Hopper and the Joey. For the RF unit, I will still use the harmony to start everything up and run everything when not on dish. Just use the Dish RF remote for Dish.

Hi Hipkat, I was hoping that you would weigh in. Good to hear that I could do the install in case Dish comes up with a large install cost. I prefer to not have them checking out my setup anyway. The 8 remotes feature does not fix the IR issue as the Address 1 thing still lives on. It does...

Long time reader, rare poster here. After almost 8 years with our 2 x Vip722K setup, It may be time to update. We are happy with the functionality with 2 satellite and 2 OTA tuners per unit. However, our 722’s have started doing strange things and I wonder how long these have to go even if...

my two 722's still have all of my OTA channels, up to ch 59

Thanks for the info. I can work around that by making the family room system a self-contained IR system. I'll use RF for one joey and ir for the other, requiring 2 remotes at 2 of the locations. I think I will wait on the change because: 1. The vip722k's are working fine and we have only a...

Hi, I currently have 2 VIP722k's with OTA (8 total tuners) and plan to eventually switch to a Hopper 3 plus 2 Joey 4Ks. The Hopper would serve the main (family room TV). Each Joey would serve three sets and there will be overlap such that a set may have access to both Joey 1 and Joey 2. I...