Sling and Dish

[tollhaus]

I'm not sure I understand the Dish/Sling interaction.

I have owned a slingbox (staged at a relative's house for out of market sports) for several years, so I get the Sling concept.

Can I use my 722K (hooked to broadband and registered, etc) to actually watch content online or just schedule my DVR, etc?

Dish almost makes it sound like you can, but I wasn't sure if that was only if I have both a Sling and a receiver in the same spot (both online, etc).

 

[tigerfan33]

No. The only way to watch your 722k online is WITH Sling. Now the 922 will be another story altogther.....

 

[tollhaus]

Thanks, that's what I thought. So if I forget to set my DVR I can do it from anywhere. Other than that, no big deal, right?

Anyone have any luck with a Sling Classic and a VIP receiver? I wonder how complicated it'd be to get the IR blaster working with it since TV2 (the one we'd want it to work with) is set for UHF remote control.

 

[kschramm]

I have a vip622 and a sling box. It works great the lag time from when i click a button on the "pretend" remote and when the actual channel changes is probably a second or two. I like to use the dish online feature to remotely schedule shows and tinker with my dvr, however I like to use the slingbox to actually watch programming remotely. On a side note I logged into my slingbox via my friends palm treo cell phone and it worked great.