Both Hoppers need Slings

[locoham]

Is there a need for both hoppers to be equipped with a sling if the hoppers are able to communicate with each other?

Thanks

Kent

 

[Bobby]

There is not a need for a sling at all unless you want to watch something off of the Hoppers remotely. If it's all in-house, the Hoppers talk to each other quite well.....

 

[locoham]

Thanks for the quick reply. I was thinking of accessing remotely. Since the Hoppers with communicate with each other, are you able to access the recorded programming on the non-sling hopper via the hopper with sling?

Thanks again

 

[gadgtfreek]

Each Hopper needs sling. For example, I have a HWS that I could see fine away from home with the app, but the second Hopper without sling could not be seen or watched. I had to install an adapter.

 

[Bobby]

As gadgt says, if you want to watch remotely on each Hopper, each one needs sling....

 

[Widescreen]

It's kind of misleading. You can see the content and actually watch it on the hopper w/ sling. If you have a hopper w/out sling, you can see the content on it, but if you try to watch anything it says "hey, you need a sling adapter to do that". The first time I tried it I thought "alright, I can play stuff on the hopper 2000 too" and at the last second, it said no.

 

[gadgtfreek]

I never tried on my PC, but on the phone dishanywhere app I could not even see the other Hopper until I added the adapter.

 

[sourdough]

Another point to consider. The Sling model has better/faster hardware. It has been noted on this forum that the speed improvements in the UI are quite noticeable. Even if you don't need sling it is worth getting the sling model just for the improved performance.

 

[gadgtfreek]

I agree with that, I have both.

 

[Widescreen]

I never tried on my PC, but on the phone dishanywhere app I could not even see the other Hopper until I added the adapter.

If you go to Settings and select the hopper 2000, it will let you see what's on that hopper. You just can't play anything from it without the sling adapter.

 

[lparsons21]

I can see both hoppers, but only play from the HWS.

On my Mac, at the Dish Anywhere site, it only shows the HWS. This is odd as it used to show both.