Hopper and Joey installation

[3HaloODST]

Dish did my install back when they put in my 622 with a DPP44 and I never had any caps on open ports. Even the auditor did not require them when he came by and made them re-do the grounding.

Yeah, on my four-Hopper setup, DPP44 + DPP33 stack, no caps on the two unused port 4s on the DPP44 nor the mostly-unused power inserter receiver port. No issues at all. All unused ports on the two duo nodes are capped though. Maybe four switches stacked are just more sensitive to it.

 

[francjam]

Is it normal that whenever power is loss on the Hopper it does a check switch?
Is it normal also that when power is loss on the Joey you have to let it join the Hopper on the same tuner? Mostly I have to reboot it a few times before it connects to the hopper on the same tuner and function ok
Am I not getting tuner 3 because I am using a Solo Node?

 

[Bobby]

I get all 3 tuners on a solo node. There are 2 coaxes from the dish to the node and one coax from the node to the Hopper.

 

[3HaloODST]

Is it normal that whenever power is loss on the Hopper it does a check switch?
Is it normal also that when power is loss on the Joey you have to let it join the Hopper on the same tuner? Mostly I have to reboot it a few times before it connects to the hopper on the same tuner and function ok
Am I not getting tuner 3 because I am using a Solo Node?

I'm thinking that your issues are all the result of having no functional third tuner. It could be a problem between the node and the dish, a problem between the node and the Hopper, or, least likely, a problem with the Hopper itself.

Did you just have your Hopper installed? Sounds like you'll need to get Dish back out to fix the connection issues.


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[Scherrman]

Is it normal that whenever power is loss on the Hopper it does a check switch?
Is it normal also that when power is loss on the Joey you have to let it join the Hopper on the same tuner? Mostly I have to reboot it a few times before it connects to the hopper on the same tuner and function ok
Am I not getting tuner 3 because I am using a Solo Node?

Generally any time a receiver has a loss of power and is turned back on it will go through a reboot and download sequence which involves the check switch. When the Joey loses power it will also go through a reboot and search for a Hopper again.

 

[3HaloODST]

Hopper doesn't normally do a check switch every time it loses power. In francjam's case, it is performing a check switch each time due to a missing third tuner.