Can't Get DirecTV To Work in Trailer....
So my sister has DirecTV but no one else in the family does. We decided to get our parents a DirecTV HD dish so they could watch TV when camping. So far I haven't been able to get it to work. I'm g...
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I haven't had time to play with things since my initial try a few days ago. My TT has the cable input outside which is labeled as cable/sat input. I then have the following setup under the TV.
I unplugged that short gray cable on the left side and ran a new coax directly from port A into my receiver. This was my initial test and it didn't work.
Since this method didn't work I decided to run a coax directly from my dish to my receiver and it still didn't work.
The directions for the dish say to set everything up properly and power up the receiver and that you should get an error message saying problems communicating with dish error 771. They say this is normal and to select the "more info" button to repeat sat setup to input the new hardware info.
I don't get a 771 code, rather I get a 775 code which while it is a different code number, it displays the same error message. I do not get the "more info" button I only get a "troubleshoot" button which when clicked simply says to check to make sure everything is wired correctly and the fittings are tight. I never see the "more info" button where I can change settings.
With this said, this receiver was never activated and was never setup before.
I unplugged that short gray cable on the left side and ran a new coax directly from port A into my receiver. This was my initial test and it didn't work.
Since this method didn't work I decided to run a coax directly from my dish to my receiver and it still didn't work.
The directions for the dish say to set everything up properly and power up the receiver and that you should get an error message saying problems communicating with dish error 771. They say this is normal and to select the "more info" button to repeat sat setup to input the new hardware info.
I don't get a 771 code, rather I get a 775 code which while it is a different code number, it displays the same error message. I do not get the "more info" button I only get a "troubleshoot" button which when clicked simply says to check to make sure everything is wired correctly and the fittings are tight. I never see the "more info" button where I can change settings.
With this said, this receiver was never activated and was never setup before.
