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kicad is a good one. A bit of a learning curve. Cad models are downloadable from Mouser and Newark, although libraries are out there if you search. Drawing simple circuit diagrams is pretty simple. From design to production. And it's free!

Is a satellite finder not supposed to be used at the dish with the shortest possible cable run? Also. DBS lnb's are particularly power hungry and is why using a multi with an FTA receiver can burn the tuner out.

2 days ago I decided to trade in my Fire TV Cube 1st gen for the 3rd gen model. Got it this morning. Not bad. On a Sunday even. From not having a Prime sub for months. I took the 30 day trial. Probably won't keep it. That's related to another recent post here. The old one is deactivated and...

I would say for me it's 99% Fire TV and 1% Roku. Roku does have easy screen mirroring and cast to from your pc, phone. Fire, not so much. Roku has you locked into what Roku approves of. Unless things have changed. Roku only allows one "sideload" app. Fire, the sky is the limit. Kodi, apps that...

I'm cheap. Never owned a meter. Hauling a receiver and monitor on the roof would be okay to do the job if it wasn't a pita. In the past I've just aimed a laptop or webcam at the tv and used Skype or video call application to call myself on the phone. If you have landmarks like tree tops and such...

Umm. Believing post #4 was nice and neat. And to the point. That is a trait of mine. To try to be helpful as a hobbiest. And a person who doesn't have a phud or ever planned a mission to mars. I do have a sohk and practical experience. School of hard knocks. Who found and developed good...

good gawd!!!

Well excuse me. Why not record something and while recording, pull the cable. Tell us how you do. Yup you're right. It IS a dish forum. As I understand it and from the actual dish website. You can take a non-dvr receiver and activate the dvr capability by plugging in an external storage device...

No confusion needed. A bit of rectification possibly. Unconnected drive. Hub power switch off. Plug in USB storage. Turn on hub power switch. Storage should be identified. To....."properly".....remove the storage device. Use the OS unmount drive, safely remove hardware function. Wait for...

Apologies everyone for being an ass. I see some decisions in the bucket for drives and hubs. That on/off switch is really for controlling non-storage devices. There are several 'tube reviews I just pondered over. I also surfed over if Seagate ever fixed their drive issues, and sadly opinions are...

So I see we have a soap-boxer with speed dial to the person on the highest floor of the building who sits in the softest chair. It irks me to have people who should know better suggest poor practices that although have worked well for them for how ever long, that its ok to carry on with them. He...

wormy. it is never acceptable nor a good practice to remove usb storage before properly preparing it for the operation. i believe you have countered that it is okay to do so several times. i don't really care to hear your rebuttal. i deal with just too much usb stroage that is corrupted either...

Not a dish subscriber. Most importantly you will need a hard disk drive. Not SSD. From other recent posts here. Unless they cleaned up their act I would shy away from Seagate. WD is reliable for me now. And 1, 2TB capacity is just too affordable. Random plugging in/unplugging external storage...

Firstly I remember one Monday morning when Maricella came into work with her brand new Dell lappy under her arm. I was the 'geek' so she comes up to me and says "You know what you get with a 3 year old and a butter knife"? Reaches in her purse and pulls out a zip lock full of Chiclets...

I'd like to add a few things. Living and breathing your career is commendable. I also did the same for my previous employer. A lot of the things I did were autonomous and transparent. Probably not enough notoriety was given. But boy did they notice when I left. I heard that from quite a few...

I'm sure the dishies can provide better info. but as far as I know and have seen from the many curbed dvr's I've grabbed and were given. To harvest the hdd's. None will enable you to view the content on anything but the subscriber box they were recorded with. Worse yet, if your sub runs out or...

The turntable analogy was just to clarify what may have not been clear to the inexperienced every-day guy. You're right. And you seem to know your beans. Flick the cue lever and a record plays until the stylus runs to the lead out groove. Unless you have an ADC Accutrac. Wow. I have to say...

Exactly. The HDD needs a bit of wiggle room in storage for housekeeping chores. You can't really consider the actual reported space as pages you can use in a notebook, a roll of film. The controller chip will write a bit of information to the actual disk for things like where to access bits of...

I use several different USB interfaces for storage transfers. Using the native interface in my bench pc is just always a lot faster. It handily has a few external sata and power ports. Depending on the file system I'll boot to Linux or use one of the Windows methods to read the Linux file...

Hint. Remote with macros.Too bad Logitech went out of the remote game. My Ultimate is pretty slick. CEC, as cool as it seems is klunky and nobody has had the smarts to make it customizable. Alexa's "skills" are limited to a few tasks. I've written "cheat sheets" and walked clients through how to...

It's crazy. Lot's don't know and many don't care. My neighbors have a ~65 incher on the wall and sit over 10 feet away in the recliners. I notice it's always blasting just to hear it. I dug out an old set of Logitech pc speakers and a sub and ran it over, plugged it in to the 1/8" jack. They...

.....how's about dis koiby vac-a-cuum cleana' while we's at it for a really good deal?

i would run from dsl any day of the week. cable, fiber, or starlink. as for the isp field tech goes. take a tip. a hot pizza, cold pepsi, or hot coffee waiting. and a "do you think you could take a look at....while you're here?"

I guess there's two ways to look at it. Good you're getting updated stuff The other way is this went dead in the water. What if it happens again? Did you learn anything? Give it enough of an effort so this thread will help others in the future? Or was the ash tray in the ford full, couldn't...

Let's establish a few hard rules. Every device you will ever see has it's own factory assigned MAC address. IF you buy your own cable modem, DSL modem. The ISP needs to know the MAC address to "provision" it for your account. Any device connected to the router on that modem will have a local IP...