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HR20 Setup Help

I have very little knowledge about this subject and am in need of much help! I have had DirecTV for about a year. I started out with four standard receivers. About two months ago, I got a new HDTV and called DirecTV out to put a new standard HD box in to replace one of the standard boxes. They came out and put a 5 LNB slimline dish on my roof and set up the box and it has been working fine. Yesterday, I acquired a HR20 HD DVR to replace the standard hd box I have. I hook it up using the cables that were there from the previous hd box and then realize that I only have one cable and I need two for the dual tuners. I call DirecTV and the only help that they will give me is that they can send a technician out to my house in mid April. I then do some research online of other people that have had this problem and find out about the multi switch. I then figure that I could find the multi switch and just run another cable from that to the other tuner. I locate the multi switch (its a 3x4) and see that this is only being used for the standard receivers in the house. I then notice that there is a separate cable coming from the dish directly to the back of the hd receiver. My question is, what do I need to do to get the dual tuners on the HR20 working. Any help would be greatly appreciated
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Are you saying they installed a 5 lnb dish and used a 3x4 multiswitch? If so, that doesn't sound right, see, for 4 tuners, you should not need any switch, the four coax coming from the dish itself can drive all 4 tuners, if you have need for more than 4 tuners (i.e. 3 standard receivers and one DVR), then you should have a WB6x8 (all four from dish go into the 6 side of the 6x8, and the 8 side feeds your tuners) which is the only switch that I know of that's used with the new 5 LNBs, since they support the higher freq requirments of the Ka/Ku signals.
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damaged said:
Are you saying they installed a 5 lnb dish and used a 3x4 multiswitch? If so, that doesn't sound right, see, for 4 tuners, you should not need any switch, the four coax coming from the dish itself can drive all 4 tuners, if you have need for more than 4 tuners (i.e. 3 standard receivers and one DVR), then you should have a WB6x8 (all four from dish go into the 6 side of the 6x8, and the 8 side feeds your tuners) which is the only switch that I know of that's used with the new 5 LNBs, since they support the higher freq requirments of the Ka/Ku signals.
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When the guy came out, he said something like "I dont want to run more cables, so this is what im going to do" I didnt know any better, and I ended up with the direct cable from the 5 LNB to the HD and two cables from the dish to the 3X4 multiswitch that was already in place from the standard dish setup. It worked, so I figured he knew what he was doing.
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ndc123 said:
When the guy came out, he said something like "I dont want to run more cables, so this is what im going to do" I didnt know any better, and I ended up with the direct cable from the 5 LNB to the HD and two cables from the dish to the 3X4 multiswitch that was already in place from the standard dish setup. It worked, so I figured he knew what he was doing.
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Depending on your area, It'll work until D* starts using the sats to full Ka and Ku capacity, when that happens, then you're going to have a bad time.

Call D* and complain to get them [the installers] back out and demand it be done right, free.

It happens, you just got a lazy-ass installer, possibly figuring when the Ka/Ku kicked in and you start missing HD channels you'd call him back and he'd get to charge you.
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Depending on your area, It'll work until D* starts using the sats to full Ka and Ku capacity, when that happens, then you're going to have a bad time.

Call D* and complain to get them [the installers] back out and demand it be done right, free, you just got a lazy-ass installer.
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That would be fine except that they said they couldnt have a technician in my area until mid April. Is there any way that I could do it myself?
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ndc123 said:
That would be fine except that they said they couldnt have a technician in my area until mid April. Is there any way that I could do it myself?
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Yes, purchase the WB68 yourself (I think one of the gold sponsers has them, maybe D* will give programming credits to make up for the cost), and take the four lines from the dish, put ALL FOUR into the 6 side of the 6x8, and then run a coax from each of the ports on the 8 side to each tuner as needed.

You should have also gotten a converter that goes inline for the Ka/Ku stuff, you won't need it now, but you will when it goes full capacity.

Also some installers will do what they did to you, then take the switches (or other equipment) they were supposed to give _you_, and sell it to someone else (a non-free customer), or sell em on ebay.
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Yes, purchase the WB68 yourself (I think one of the gold sponsers has them, maybe D* will give programming credits to make up for the cost), and take the four lines from the dish, put ALL FOUR into the 6 side of the 6x8, and then run a coax from each of the ports on the 8 side to each tuner as needed.

You should have also gotten a converter that goes inline for the Ka/Ku stuff, you won't need it now, but you will when it goes full capacity.
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I got two little boxes that came with the HR20 that say SUP-2400 "B Band Converter (BBC) Module" (for Ka-Lo band up-conversion). Are those the converters you are talking about?
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ndc123 said:
I got two little boxes that came with the HR20 that say SUP-2400 "B Band Converter (BBC) Module" (for Ka-Lo band up-conversion). Are those the converters you are talking about?
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Yessir.

By the way, before you start pulling coax out from the receivers/switch, make sure you unplug (shutting them off is NOT the same, unplug them) the power from ALL receivers before connecting/disconnecting coax, not doing so may risk damage to the LNBs.
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Yessir.
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Thank you so much for the help. 1 hour on this forum has given me more help than DirecTV could have ever given me.
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ndc123 said:
Thank you so much for the help. 1 hour on this forum has given me more help than DirecTV could have ever given me.
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No problem, re-read the post above your last, I added important information. Let us know how it goes.
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No problem, re-read the post above your last, I added important information. Let us know how it goes.
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Alright, will do.
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I'm getting fabulous picture on Ch. 148 4k, but zero audio with H713. This is with a recorded show (Notre Dame game). Anyone else have this? Audio is fine on every other channel.
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I'm getting fabulous picture on Ch. 148 4k, but zero audio with H713. This is with a recorded show (Notre Dame game). Anyone else have this? Audio is fine on every other channel.
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It's a known issue.
For a temporary fix, go into the menu, Audio, and turn Dolby Audio "OFF". You will have PCM stereo audio.

I was able to give the tech ops team some data logs so they could diagnose the problem, and they rolled me back to H708 temporarily. It fixed that issue.

They let me know that they understand what caused the issue, and it will be fixed within a few weeks in a new update.
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They let me know that they understand what caused the issue, and it will be fixed within a few weeks in a new update.
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Oh, you mean "soon"? :biggrin
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It's a known issue.
For a temporary fix, go into the menu, Audio, and turn Dolby Audio "OFF". You will have PCM stereo audio.

I was able to give the tech ops team some data logs so they could diagnose the problem, and they rolled me back to H708 temporarily. It fixed that issue.

They let me know that they understand what caused the issue, and it will be fixed within a few weeks in a new update.
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I guess they will be busy when lots of people start asking for rollbacks to H708 now that you mention that downgrades of software does exist because it will likely fix the OTA Single Tuner and the IR Remote problems in H710-H713.
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it will likely fix the OTA Single Tuner
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it will likely fix the OTA Single Tuner
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I have gotten back into watching SG-1 and I have recorded most of the episodes to binge watch. What episodes are about the Antarctic or was this a movie? Also where could I watch the SG-1 movies?
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I have gotten back into watching SG-1 and I have recorded most of the episodes to binge watch. What episodes are about the Antarctic or was this a movie? Also where could I watch the SG-1 movies?
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Well, there are a couple involving the Antarctic. "Solitudes", S1 E17 (one of my favorites), Then, "Lost City', S7 E21 and E22. Then, in the SGA pilot, "Rising", S1 E1 and E2, it starts out in the Antarctic for about the first 20 minutes or so.
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Well, there are a couple involving the Antarctic. "Solitudes", S1 E17 (one of my favorites), Then, "Lost City', S7 E21 and E22. Then, in the SGA pilot, "Rising", S1 E1 and E2, it starts out in the Antarctic for about the first 20 minutes or so.
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Which one has O'Neil being Ancients? I am at the end of Season 8 now.
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Which one has O'Neil being Ancients? I am at the end of Season 8 now.
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If I understand your question, O'Neill had the Ancient's knowledge in the "Lost City" two-part episode. That was when Anubis attacked Earth and there was a big battle over Antarctica.
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They get cruel sometimes, very very cruel.😈. Hated to see my dawgs go down but I still say being ranked #1 is a hex on you!
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Yup, I agree, I'd rather be 2 or 3 till the last few weeks.
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