mounting dish

upsidedown Charlie wrote:
We have a Genie and an HR 24/200 in the house. We had an HR 24/200 installed in the MH. All three show up on my account summary on the Direct web sight in the same place. We are not using Genie minis because we record a lot. By one account I mean you are charged for one receiver and then only about $7 for each additional receiver. VS DTV telling folks that a RV requires a full second account. See below.

I can easily swap the RV box with the other HR24 in the house and let the recorded programs load up. That's brilliant. If I just swap the boxes when we come home I should be able to take my recorded programs if I'm understanding you correctly. The shows are recorded on the units hard drive and move with the box. So any of your 3 receivers could be moved and the shows would follow the box.

Direct would not let me buy a receiver fro the RV.They told me I had to buy from Wiengard if it was being used in an RV with a Traveler Dish. Turns out the boxes are identical so I could have just had Direct send me one. We were commuting 60 miles each way to the dealership and Wiengard just sent the receiver to the dealer for installation. Your suggestion will solve the problem I think. My understanding is that DTV no longer ships to customers because there were to many installation issues. You could have had the third receiver installed at home and just moved it to the rig with the new dish.

The Wiengard control box shows 99, 101 and 103 on the panel so I'm sure it's seeing all 3 satellites.

Genie did not exist when we had a receiver on the boat. so that may be a factor. We had 4 standard boxes. It is possible that the Genie technology changed the way they saw each other. I promise, our receiver on the boat 150 miles from the house had everything we recorded at home. Interesting and new to me. You're saying the boat receiver was left on and when you recorded a show at home then went to the boat it was also on that receiver?

I'll try it the way you are doing it tomorrow after the Direct guy leaves if he can't make it work. I still see no reason why the receiver on the MH won't see wifi when my PC, Roku and iPhone do.

We do have the full programming o the MH that we have in the house. If the memory travels with the receiver, I can deal with that just by bringing the MH receiver inside and booting it up on a connection inside. That's a minor issue if it gives us our recorded stuff.

Sorry my explanation was muddy. I really appreciate you helping me figure this out.

If you want to record both at home and in the RV that will not generally work because of local spot beams. ie National programming is received on a spot beam that generally covers about 200 miles or so. Once you drive out of that range you no longer get the National programs. You can call DTV and get the locals for whatever area you've driven to but then they will not be received at home. This is the reason a full second account is required ie record and watch both locations regardless of where you drive.