UHF Remote Is Intolerable

Mike

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Does the Hopper UHF remote ever have problems where you press a button ONE SINGLE TIME, yet the [redacted] piece of [redacted] proceeds to act as if you had pressed the button 17 or maybe 142 times?

Specific interest as to whether you have this problem in relation to how many 2.4 GHz WiFi networks are in your area. I would imagine here that most posters here are probably homeowners, but I have had DISH in various apartments. Apartments being closer together, and with virtually everyone having a wireless network, this causes severe pollution on 2.4 GHz. I operate my own WiFi primarily on 5 GHz because of this.

My understanding is that the UHF remote used on both the 922 and Hopper operates on 2.4 GHz. My remarks concerning that are primarily along the lines of "anyone who thought that was a good idea should be subject to execution".

I don't really want to hear "Oh, move the DVR, oh, blah, other suggestion I've already read 492 times". It doesn't matter where you put the damn DVR when you have 37 neighbors doing god knows what to the poor 2.4 GHz band at all hours of the day. Oh, and at my new apartment, across the street, there's a Motel 6, another hotel brand I forgot, and another hotel brand I forgot. And they all crap over 2.4 GHz as well.

I don't know what frequency the UHF remote that came with a 501 used - but I literally NEVER had a SINGLE problem with that. I thought the damn thing was magic - you could change the channel from the mailbox. But it was a long time ago, I was in high school and still lived at home, which was a house (but we did have a WiFi network, first one on the block I'd figure).

Almost no one uses 900 MHz now. It's perfect for remotes.
 
If the remote is truly UHF, wifi shouldn't interfere with it. I don't know what frequency the remote uses, but you should be able to use the FCC Search. Use the FCC ID on the remote to find the frequency (or range). Is it possible you're getting interference from an OTA station (or someone doing their own modulator)? Does the remote have an option to change UHF bands?
 
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Does the Hopper UHF remote ever have problems where you press a button ONE SINGLE TIME, yet the [redacted] piece of [redacted] proceeds to act as if you had pressed the button 17 or maybe 142 times?..

To your question, NO, what's the point of this thread? Dish remotes work just fine. The title of the thread is ridiculous.
 
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Sticky coke buttons? Call and get the remote replaced. If that doesn't work get the receiver replaced.

Sent from a phone, probably while I'm driving over the speed limit through a school zone with construction workers present.
 
Remote control devices can go off frequency, rarely but it can happen. If you have an RTL-Dongle or sensitive spectrum analyzer you could check the remote's frequency.

Maybe a lousy suggestion, but nonetheless a suggestion!:)
 
Remote control devices can go off frequency, rarely but it can happen. If you have an RTL-Dongle or sensitive spectrum analyzer you could check the remote's frequency.

Maybe a lousy suggestion, but nonetheless a suggestion!:)
Of course, we all have one of those handy.
 
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Everyone in this thread fails.

The back of my remote has the following information:
32.0 UHF 2G
FCC ID: QVETC4U2
IC: 3683B-TC4U2
EchoStar Technologies L.L.C
165540
Made in Mexico
Patent Pending

The quickest and easiest source of information concerning the frequencies that this remote uses, can be obtained from the FCC ID.

The following site aggregates sources of FCC information: https://fccid.io/QVETC4U2

Refer to the following APPROVED OPERATING FREQUENCIES:
Lower Frequency: 2425.00000000 MHz
Upper Frequency: 2475.00000000 MHz

The remotes, as included with the 922 receiver, operates on the 2.4 GHz band.

Go ahead and check the FCC ID of the Hopper remotes (which are known as 40.0 UHF 2G - the 2G here is a clue). THEY ARE ALSO 2.4 GHZ

If you are using a 922 or a Hopper UHF remote IT OPERATES ON 2.4 GHZ.

Reconsider my entire post with this factual knowledge in mind. Maybe someone from DIRT could PM me before I throw the whole lot of equipment into a river.

Edit: spongella doesn't fail - I actually do have one of those RTL USB dongles and I have studied other remotes such as gate openers and the like, and I have recorded and then decoded their signals. But the cheaper dongles only go up to about 1.2 GHz or so.
 
Does the Hopper UHF remote ever have problems where you press a button ONE SINGLE TIME, yet the [redacted] piece of [redacted] proceeds to act as if you had pressed the button 17 or maybe 142 times?

Specific interest as to whether you have this problem in relation to how many 2.4 GHz WiFi networks are in your area. I would imagine here that most posters here are probably homeowners, but I have had DISH in various apartments. Apartments being closer together, and with virtually everyone having a wireless network, this causes severe pollution on 2.4 GHz. I operate my own WiFi primarily on 5 GHz because of this.

My understanding is that the UHF remote used on both the 922 and Hopper operates on 2.4 GHz. My remarks concerning that are primarily along the lines of "anyone who thought that was a good idea should be subject to execution".

I don't really want to hear "Oh, move the DVR, oh, blah, other suggestion I've already read 492 times". It doesn't matter where you put the damn DVR when you have 37 neighbors doing god knows what to the poor 2.4 GHz band at all hours of the day. Oh, and at my new apartment, across the street, there's a Motel 6, another hotel brand I forgot, and another hotel brand I forgot. And they all crap over 2.4 GHz as well.

I don't know what frequency the UHF remote that came with a 501 used - but I literally NEVER had a SINGLE problem with that. I thought the damn thing was magic - you could change the channel from the mailbox. But it was a long time ago, I was in high school and still lived at home, which was a house (but we did have a WiFi network, first one on the block I'd figure).

Almost no one uses 900 MHz now. It's perfect for remotes.

They work tremendously well, because you have a problem is far, very far from the remote not working well generally. I have been on this site since it's beginnings, on the other site still which was before this site existed, and before either on the DbsForums site. I frequent AvsForums and many other sites and rarely, very rarely are problems with the DISH UHF remotes posted particularly about multiple actions from one push. I won't give you any blah blah suggestions as to what can cause that behavior as you asked. So I will say you may interested in the show Better Call Saul, the character Saul's brother...
 
I had issues here with my dish UHF remotes, they were flakey.

So I added a OTA signal amp and fed it to my receivers.

I had a adjustable amp set it on max and went for a walk with my cell phone and remote.

amazing it must of worked a least a half mile away.

I locked all my receivers so a neighbor didnt buy porn:( and set the amps gain back a lot..
 
hey i just rembered, with that amp on high, i drove up to mc intyre square, stood on the top of the hill looked down at our house and changed channels from their. it might be a mile, i was stunned it worked from there

I the ever present jokester thought about feeding one of my remotes to a linear amp, and ordering everyones dish setup to buy porn, just as a gag:)
 
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