I can't imagine this many cables (UPDATED)
In my "new to me" motorhome, I am getting it set up for my wife and me. I was getting ready to install the satellite receiver and take out an old VCR. Here is what I found when opening the cabinet...
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creeper wrote:
Go to lower or Home depot and get a tester. My new coach was wired wrong (winnebago quality control), once I corrected their wiring mistakes everyone worked as it should.
Cable in. Cable out to multiple TVs, cable to antenna, cable to antenna in in rear, cable to outside tv., cable to outlet in bay, satellite in, satellite distribution. The cables add up fast.
I used a meter to check continuity to trace a lot of the wires (from the bays especially) and found which coaxial went to where.
The only thing I can not do and which it totally weird; I use DISH network (and no, I'm not going to change to DirectTV), I installed the the Dish receiver in the front cabinet and used HDMI to the front TV. Of course the back TV is wired with coaxial. I used component cables from the Dish receiver to send the signal from the receiver to an A/V switcher, then out of the switcher to the coaxial output on the selector switch (TV ANTENNA/AUX/VCR) then coaxial to the rear TV. It works great and I can watch any channels, including all premium movie channels as long as the front TV is also turned on and is set to watch programming. If I turn the front TV off, I can still watch all channels EXCEPT premium channels. When I put it one of of the premium channels I get this error code.
"The receiver has detected that the HD television or the digital connection to the TV does not support High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP). Because this event follows HDCP, this event is not available to order on this TV".
If I turn the front TV back on, I get the signal back on the bedroom TV. It's weired since it only does this on premium channels. None of the regular channels are affected. I assume what's causing it is the component cables converted to coaxial BUT it worked fine (including premium channels) wired the same way in my old motorhome. I did buy a brand new TV for the bedroom for the new motorhome so I'm reasonably sure it is HDCP compliant. I'll send DISH Network an email and ask them if there's a way around the HDCP issue if I don't find an alternative solution.
