Two 622's, one phone line??

[smokey982]

I asked this question in another forum and was told that as long as my first 622 has a phone line plugged in, the second 622 would not need a line. I think that's the Dishcomm or something. Anyway, I recently moved the furniture around in my bedroom and the phone jack is on the other side of the room from my receiver. So I left it unplugged. After a few days, I woke up this morning with a message saying that unless I plug a line into the receiver, I would have a monthly charge added to my bill.

Is there anything in the menu I need to change in order for this process to work properly?

 

[gdarwin]

Menu 6, 1, 8 is the DishCOMM setup.

 

[LER]

make sure you have the 2nd one set to REMOTE in the telephone setup screen after you set up DishCOMM between them and they see each other.

 

[smokey982]

I assume I do the setup on the first receiver that will keep the phone line plugged in? When I do this I get an "error adding dishcomm device 742" message. Do I run the setup on both receivers?

 

[smokey982]

Has anyone else been succesful in doing this?

 

[gdarwin]

Are you using a UPS. I have a UPS on one of them and they will not communicate.

 

[VegasVoomer]

I have the same setup. The host 622 plugged into a phone line and a UPS. Didn't do anything in the setup on that one. On the second 622 I added the R00 # from the host to the list and changed it to "receiver" and hit test and it came back online green. The caller ID didn't work until I went into the phone setup menu and changed it to (and I can't remember this at the moment) I think modem. Plus you have to turn the caller ID on.

 

[LER]

in the phone line setup for the "remote" set the modem to Remote.

Works great for me with my 2 622's plugged into the wall.

 

[VegasVoomer]

in the phone line setup for the "remote" set the modem to Remote.

Works great for me with my 2 622's plugged into the wall.

Thank you. Thats the part I couldn't remember. "remote".

 

[zikdaman]

Anyone get the dishcomm to work between two recievers plugged into surge protectors? We get some bad storms here in the summertime and I don't want to risk my 622's by just plugging them into the wall.

 

[smokey982]

So one final question and I should have this cleared up. Do I run the Dishcomm setup on the receiver that will continue to have the phone line, OR the receiver that will NOT have the phone line, or BOTH receivers?? Thanks.

 

[LER]

Both receivers.

Make sure you run the test on both.

Also make sure you do the phone-line setup to remote on the one without the phone connection.

 

[Neutron]

Will the Caller-ID pass through to the one set to remote?

 

[LER]

yes, the callerid come thru on the remote

 

[Hall]

...two recievers plugged into surge protectors? We get some bad storms here in the summertime and I don't want to risk my 622's by just plugging them into the wall.

Off-topic: Just FYI, the typical $10-15 surge suppressor will do little to nothing against a storm, i.e. lightning strike.

 

[RockinHARD26]

This is what the tech support (AKA idiots) told me today about this feature: Its available, but they do not have any information about it. Just what it does, etc but no trouble tech info.

 

[thefunks67]

You got lucky.

I had to educate the CS rep the other day about what DishComm was. She thought I was talking about "dish.com".

She could not give me any info on what surge suppressors are compatible with DishComm.

I got my upgrade 622 yesterday and hope to play with DishComm and phone lines over the next few days. In theory it should work but I haven't seen many success storys that include surge suppressors.

-Funk

 

[Neutron]

Okay, I have the second 622 up and running, but I'm also getting error 742 on both of them.

Is it because both are plugged into a surge protector (not the same one obviously)?

 

[Peter Parker]

When power is interrupted to my 622 it takes about 10 minutes before it will reboot. I can't see running it without an UPS.

 

[Neutron]

Found my solution. I don't like it one bit either.

Both 622s are plugged directly into the wall. I guess I will need to get DishCOMM approved surge protectors.

At least I have the DHPP just in case....