Hi, I know nothing about how these boxes work, but I'd like to get the basics down on how they work mechanically.
Basically what I see is a little antenna on the back of the receiver, I'm certain it's for the second remote. However, I don't see how the TV talks to the receiver, there's a coax going from the wall directly to the TV, and I'm guessing then directly to the satellite. The reason I say this is the guy who installed it took maybe 45 minutes to install this thing, and never went into the attic or on the roof (from what I saw, I wasn't stalking him but he was usually in the house).
I have 3 TV's total, one on the box, one set on the second tuner, and one without DVR. I guess the main reason I'm asking all this is because I thought it might be cool to set up both TVs to be able to use that second tuner, but only on occasion. Lets say the second tuner is not in use, but we would like to watch something that's been recorded in the room without DVR. If I could get the tuner to talk to the third TV to watch that recorded bit, then that would be perfect (we don't often use the 3rd TV, only when we have company, it's more of a den I would call it)....is that even remotely possible or am I not seeing how these things work?
Edit, I seem to have overlooked the techincal forum for Dish. I wonder if I could get this moved to the proper forum or deleted.
Basically what I see is a little antenna on the back of the receiver, I'm certain it's for the second remote. However, I don't see how the TV talks to the receiver, there's a coax going from the wall directly to the TV, and I'm guessing then directly to the satellite. The reason I say this is the guy who installed it took maybe 45 minutes to install this thing, and never went into the attic or on the roof (from what I saw, I wasn't stalking him but he was usually in the house).
I have 3 TV's total, one on the box, one set on the second tuner, and one without DVR. I guess the main reason I'm asking all this is because I thought it might be cool to set up both TVs to be able to use that second tuner, but only on occasion. Lets say the second tuner is not in use, but we would like to watch something that's been recorded in the room without DVR. If I could get the tuner to talk to the third TV to watch that recorded bit, then that would be perfect (we don't often use the 3rd TV, only when we have company, it's more of a den I would call it)....is that even remotely possible or am I not seeing how these things work?
Edit, I seem to have overlooked the techincal forum for Dish. I wonder if I could get this moved to the proper forum or deleted.