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Thanks TS7- so just to confirm, you have the DECA box attached to the HR24 and the ethernet from DECA plugged into the HR24 and it works? For some reason, that doesn't work for me even if I reset the receiver. The DECA lights turn on green for part of the boot up, but then just turn off entirely and don't seem to be active after about half way through the system start up. Strange.

That's exactly what I'm going to do...I didn't apperciate how to do that when I originally posted, and in particular I didn't realize that I could do that by getting a green splitter and power for the DECA which I have just ordered. Originally I thought I could save some equipment and cabling by using the DECA that I already had but evidently the HR24 is not set up to work that way.

david78 said:

Thanks TS7- so just to confirm, you have the DECA box attached to the HR24 and the ethernet from DECA plugged into the HR24 and it works? For some reason, that doesn't work for me even if I reset the receiver. The DECA lights turn on green for part of the boot up, but then just turn off entirely and don't seem to be active after about half way through the system start up. Strange.

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The HR24 DVR has the DECA built in. When they say you can use DECA or Ethernet with the HR24 they correspondingly refer to the internal DECA inside the DVR and an Ethernet cable connected to the Ethernet port directly. You can't have the DECA box connected to the DVR. It will not work. Also, you can't use the built in DECA while you have the Ethernet cable plugged into the DVR. Basically, your options are either the Ethernet cable or the built in DECA via the coax cable.

Don't use the ethernet port on the HR24. Instead, buy a two way SWiM green labeled splitter. Split the sat cable before it comes to the HR24, run one into the HR 24, the other into the Deca adapter. From the DECA adapter into an ethernet switch for your other devices. BTW, this is not supported and you will be robbing your DECA cloud of bandwidth.

david78,
You might be able to achieve your original objective, but you basically have to reset all your thinking and ignore most of what you have been trying to do.

First, a DECA is simply a device that allows you to inject or extract a twisted pair signal into or from the coax ip stream. And, as you discovered, when used with an HR24 or stand-alone, it needs to be powered with a separate power supply. To extract an ip stream near your HR24 you will need to have a powered White DECA near the receiver (since you want to have the coax signal passing through the DECA to the HR24). The twisted pair network cable that goes in the DECA has to go to your tv set or whatever network device you want to receive your network packets. I guess that would be your AppleTV. (The DECA in the HR24 simply extracts the ip network information for that receiver. You cannot capture that signal from the connector in the back of the receiver.)

Then you need to go to your router and install another DECA (powered) which can be either a black DECA or a white one. You need to run a wire from the router to the DECA and a coax from the DECA to a splitter connection in your coax network. If all the connections are used on your existing splitter, you can add another splitter in one of the lines for your DECA connection. (Make sure that any unused connections are terminated with the (72 ohm) caps that come with the splitters.) This connection will give you access to DirecTV On Demand programming as well as establishing a connection between your DirecTV coax network and the outside world. You can verify that this network is working correctly when you see your DirectTV boxes listed in your routers active device table. If you have never logged in to your router you may need to review the instructions on how to do that.

While I have never tried this configuration, it seems entirely plausible that it might work. Since I have never seen any specifications on the DirecTV coax network, I have no idea what kind of bandwidth it is capable of handling. You might run into some issues if you are trying to download an on-demand movie on multiple receivers and also trying to use your Apple TV. I don't think there is any way to set priorities on what devices get access to the network.

You should also go to sites like Solid Signal (here- click on specifications tab) or SatPro (here) and look at the diagrams they show on their sites for DECA connections. This might give you a better idea of what it takes to make this network work. The only major difference to what you want to do versus what the diagrams illustrate is that you want to connect an outside device (your Apple TV) to the network rather than the DirecTV receiver (which is what these diagrams show.)

I certainly hope you will share your results with the rest of us.

Ignore my post above. According to those who posted to your duplicate post on this subject have made it clear that you cannot use the DECA for anything but a DirecTV receiver. Sorry I missed that post first. I would delete my previous post if I could.