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agupta
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DVR 522 installation problem with legacy equipment

HI,
I had dish netwrok for last 4 years with PVR501, dish 500 and dish 300. One wire from dish 500 and one wire from dish 300 goes to SW21 and the output went to PVR501.

Now, I want to install DVR522. I installed another SW21 from the other two wires, each coming from dish 500 and dish 300 and the output of each SW21 going to the two satellite inputs of DVR522.
HOwever, when I run check switch, the DVR does not recognize all the satellite inputs. I know that both the switches and connections are fine because i have tried each of them on my old receiver and that one recognizes all three satellites (119, 100 and 148). BUt, DVR522 switch check only recognizes 119.
If I connect the DIsh 500 output directly to satellite in of DVR 522, it successfully recognizes 119 and 110.

Are legacy dish and switches not compatible with DVR522? Please help.

Thanks.
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HI,
Thanks for the help. After downloading the software, check switch successfully identified all three sateliites.

Before I get the receiver activated, I have another question. In the "Point Dish" window, when I check the signal strengths, it is not identifying all the signals properly. I think it identies only 119, but not the other two. Does it matter?
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Liquidforce88
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Sounds like you have a bad receiver to me, or you have a hook-up problem. You say you can take either lead comming out of the SW21's and your old receiver will read all three sats.
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it should be fine, the switch problem was just that you were trying to do it before the download..
i would go ahead and activate it... i know on a lot of the dual tuner boxes, the signal screen acts funny, it wont lock sometimes, if you switch between satellites too quickly, it gets confused, ect...
i install several of them a day that always act like that, but i haven't had but maybe one or two bad receivers yet
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tjbeckett
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As long as the Check Switch is coming out ok, you should be fine. Factory Software on the dual tuners can do some really screwy stuff, especailly with switches and seperators.
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agupta said:
HI,
I had dish netwrok for last 4 years with PVR501, dish 500 and dish 300. One wire from dish 500 and one wire from dish 300 goes to SW21 and the output went to PVR501.

Now, I want to install DVR522. I installed another SW21 from the other two wires, each coming from dish 500 and dish 300 and the output of each SW21 going to the two satellite inputs of DVR522.
HOwever, when I run check switch, the DVR does not recognize all the satellite inputs. I know that both the switches and connections are fine because i have tried each of them on my old receiver and that one recognizes all three satellites (119, 100 and 148). BUt, DVR522 switch check only recognizes 119.
If I connect the DIsh 500 output directly to satellite in of DVR 522, it successfully recognizes 119 and 110.

Are legacy dish and switches not compatible with DVR522? Please help.

Thanks.
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Are you using a second SW21 to double the outputs from the the SAME cable you already are using? If so then it will NEVER EVER EVER WORK. Legacy LNBF's and Switches will not function this way. All satellite Tuners connected to Legacy LNBF's and or switches require a seperate UNIQUE Feed to function.

If you want to connect the second tuner you need to run another cable from the Dish500's other output (assuming it has one) to the second SW21 with a second cable from the other output of the LNBF on the DISH 300 (Assuming you have one available). You will then have 2 seperate cables to connect to each of TWO Tuner inputs on the back of the 522.

If you want to use a single cable installation to the 522 from your Dish's then you will have to replace the LNBFs on the Dish 500 and Dish 300 to Dish PRO LNBF's as well as the SW21's with a Dish Pro PLUS 44 switch. This is going to be expensive. The Switch alone is $190 bucks.
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TVs are really getting big these days

Was raining yesterday so I went to Sams up in Dothan to stock up on some things. Haven't been there in quite a while. I was amazed at how large most of the TVs were. When I walked in they had a 100 in Vizio (I think it was Vizio) that was marked down to something like $1,200. The first rows of TVs were all in the 80 in + sizes. The next couple of rows had the "smaller" models....those 75 and under. I was amazed at how small the 75s looked when lined up with the larger screens.
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Q-LED and Mini LED panels have improved the picture quality and the tv's are so thin and nearly without bezels now. I've thought about replacing the 75in 4k DV/HDR LED Sony in my living room with a newer 86in. That's as big as I can go without construction changes. I watch the 75in 4k DV/HDR Q-LED in my bedroom and the difference between the two is very noticeable. There's nothing wrong with the living room tv though and I don't now that I actually watch enough anymore to really justify it. I could move it out to the patio but the 65in Q-LED out there looks really good and I'd have to change the mount to accomdate a larger tv out there.
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I'm at a limit for TV sizes at this time. My Father-in-Law crafted a custom entertainment center for our family room and we were restricted from going too big based on the side cabinets and central bridge fitting in the width of the room. It turns out to be where a 55" screen with bezels fits but no 65" bezel-less screen can fit. I think there was a brief period where 58" screens where a thing, but no more.

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Foxbat said:
I'm at a limit for TV sizes at this time. My Father-in-Law crafted a custom entertainment center for our family room and we were restricted from going too big based on the side cabinets and central bridge fitting in the width of the room. It turns out to be where a 55" screen with bezels fits but no 65" bezel-less screen can fit. I think there was a brief period where 58" screens where a thing, but no more.

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55" is plenty big.
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TRG said:
55" is plenty big.
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And to think....I was SO proud of myself when I bought a 27 in TV in the late 80s. Everyone just had a 25 in so I was really in high cotton.
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Has anyone been to Wales?

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Song Name Game Part 3!

Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!

So let the game continue!

The last song was added by Bobby who posted...

One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters

CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!

Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game

Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.

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Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio

Another example:

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Saved OTA list on Dish can't be appended

I have Dish with Hopper3. I choose to get local channels OTA and had a "guide list" established at my previous home. Having moved a few miles away, I wanted to update the list by appending a couple new stations via a rescan. As many would know, some stations come in with the UHF/VHF antenna aimed in one direction, while others come in better with a different direction.

Unfortunately, when a scan is done (bringing in 25-30 stations for that particular antenna aim), the dialog screen does not present the established guide list; it presents an empty field to the right that the scanned stations may be selected one by one and added to the empty guide. But because of antenna aim, some stations originally saved are missing, and would have to be retrieved with a different antenna aim. But as I explain, if a 2nd​ scan is done with a different antenna aim, the stations saved from the first scan are lost.

It troubles me that Dish didn't develop software that would allow a user to simply append only 1 or 2 channels to the established list. :mad:

Any thought on this? Has anyone experienced this or heard of this from others?
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I hear complaints from customers each and every day. I chose not to install OTAs with a doggle for a reason.

BTW, I like your user name


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MorCowbell said:
It troubles me that Dish didn't develop software that would allow a user to simply append only 1 or 2 channels to the established list.
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So, you want the ability to, for example, scan while your antenna is pointed to the east and save those channels to your list. Then, you want to scan again with the antenna pointed to the west, and add some of those channels to the list also while retaining the original channels you added from the east?

How would that work? If you move the antenna and some of your channels are no longer are accessible, there's no point in having them on the list. Unless, you want to re-point the antenna each time you switched from an east channel to a west channel and vice versa.

I suppose you could have one of those remote controlled antenna mast like we had back in the 60's. In that case, I can see your point. I think DISH has just designed the system to fit what the vast majority of users actually have. I'm guessing your situation is a pretty narrow use case scenario. I'm just really happy to be able to have my locals without having to pay the $17 month for them.

I just wish DISH would fix the remote control issue that the last few software downloads screwed up. I use the 54 remote and my Hopper is jumping around from off to on, from live to recording.......................like a Kangaroo.
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To Dishstaller, I appreciate your compliment. That was an epic SNL skit !!

To RVvaquero, I appreciate your coments but everything you mention has been considered:

Firstly, I use OTA very rarely - mainly for sporting events.
Secondly, I'm well aware that, since certain channels may scan from one directon while others from another directions, and remembering the difference, for certain stations I will point the antenna in a suitable direction. Some stations come in for almost any direction. In my original list (which has now been discarded), I had about 18 OTA stations and all of them were scanned from the same antenna direction. Even so, the Dish receiver was very particular about ABC (local KOAT 007-01). In the new geographic setting, it gets KOAT easier. Several months ago, due to a contract dispute, CBS (formerly local KRQE on 013-01) was dropped; it hooked up with KOAT as KOATCB (007-04) which is the one station I really needed. But I had to rescan to get it ...

All of ths points to the flaw in Dish's OTA software that prevents scanned stations from simply being appended to a master saved list. The user should be left to manage antenna pointing per OTA station since in many areas (like mine), they don't all come in from the same direction.
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MorCowbell said:
To Dishstaller, I appreciate your compliment. That was an epic SNL skit !!

To RVvaquero, I appreciate your coments but everything you mention has been considered:

Firstly, I use OTA very rarely - mainly for sporting events.
Secondly, I'm well aware that, since certain channels may scan from one directon while others from another directions, and remembering the difference, for certain stations I will point the antenna in a suitable direction. Some stations come in for almost any direction. In my original list (which has now been discarded), I had about 18 OTA stations and all of them were scanned from the same antenna direction. Even so, the Dish receiver was very particular about ABC (local KOAT 007-01). In the new geographic setting, it gets KOAT easier. Several months ago, due to a contract dispute, CBS (formerly local KRQE on 013-01) was dropped; it hooked up with KOAT as KOATCB (007-04) which is the one station I really needed. But I had to rescan to get it ...

All of ths points to the flaw in Dish's OTA software that prevents scanned stations from simply being appended to a master saved list. The user should be left to manage antenna pointing per OTA station since in many areas (like mine), they don't all come in from the same direction.
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As rvvaquero mentioned, you are in a very small population who actually need to move their antenna to receive various TV channels. There are a few reasons why it is not advantageous for Dish to do what you are asking for. First and primary, there are anomalies in the software that can cause issues when you have scanned channels in the mix that have little or no signal. You get error pop ups and cannot watch any channel, OTA or satellite. I have seen these even with my antenna pointed to one direction. Second, you are asking Dish to adapt their software to your needs while the very vast majority don't need that. This is an expense that everyone is going to have to pay for while few gain any advantage.

Have you thought about adding a second antenna so that you are pointing at both directions to fulfill your needs. There are ways to do this and it would fulfill your individual need.

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Televes makes an antenna signal combiner that will support two different antennas pointing towards two different locations, and has filters to drop the signals from the channels that interfere with the 2nd antenna channels. This produces a signal that would contain all your receivable channels in one feed. It would probably cost less than a single antenna on a rotor controlled by a smart box that would relocate the antenna mast towards the TV station you wanted to tune in, plus it's instantaneous, without waiting for the antenna to slew towards its target.

Why Choose the Televes SmartKom?

SmartKom combines filtering, combining, and amplification in one outdoor preamplifier. Its three inputs and 32 programmable digital filters allow installers to select, combine, and level channels from different antenna sources, while the included ASuite app supports both automatic and advanced Bluetooth programming.

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