Direct TV to the RV - how easy ?
Hi ALL We are Direct TV customers at home & we received a free Direct TV HD box with our recently new 2014 unit, & need someone to tell us how to use this Direct TV box in our unit. Is it as easy ...
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wtfjr wrote:
I should have made it clear in the first message that we do have an automatic Dome receiver on the RV's roof which sounds like it is ready to go as it will search for signals when it is fired up. It is also set up to receive the Direct TV signals.
I was hoping that all we had to do was take the receiver card from home & use that in the RV's receiver & all would be fine.
But are you all saying that I will need to have the RV's receiver added to our account & pay rent on it ?
Is there any way to use either just the card from home in the RV's receiver ?
Or to take the home receiver along in the RV & hook that up in place of the RV's receiver ?
Thanks for the feedback thus far !!!!
Bill in FL
A) No, you can't use any other card with this receiver.
B) Any additional receivers that you activate will incur and additional $6/month fee.
C) You can use that new receiver in your home and your RV and disconnect one of the home receivers to save additional charges or you can throw that receiver away (sell it on E-Bay) and just move one of the receivers in your home between the home and RV as needed.
D) I assume you know that even though you have a DirecTV HD receiver in your RV, your dome is not capable of receiving the DirecTV HD programming so if you activate that receiver your account will be updated to an HD account for an additional $10/month even though you cannot receive it. Some manufacturers (Tiffin comes to mind) put a free receiver in the coach since the wiring Tiffin uses requires and HDMI output and there are more DirecTV customers than Dish customers. That just leaves a series of possible issues that you just have to figure out.
