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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OK, I finally got everything working. I finally had some time over the past two days to really sit down and get it together.
Yesterday I was able to get a 74 signal on my TV. It was raining so I couldn't fiddle with things to much. Today was better weather and I was able to get an 84 signal. The TV screen was verifying the info and I was eventually faced with a screen that had 3 columns and two rows and all 6 of those boxes had red X's. I kept going with the process and eventually got a "setup complete" screen or something along those lines and then channel 2 began playing on my TV which is our local CBS channel! SUCCESS!!
I went through some of the channels and I got a large number of channels but some of them just didn't come in at all. I'm guessing that's because I still only had a signal of about 84. I did get a lot of channels though and each channel displayed the program title and program description too.
So I'm happy to report that things are finally working! I'm not going to continue playing with it now because I'm home. I'll be going on my last camping trip of the year in a few weeks so I'll be tweaking the settings when I get there but so far, so good! Thanks for the help!
Oh, and I ran the dish right to the receiver to get things working. Once I got it working I plugged the dish into the cable/sat input connect on the side of the trailer and then used the camper wiring to connect to my receiver. Everything still works! :-)
Yesterday I was able to get a 74 signal on my TV. It was raining so I couldn't fiddle with things to much. Today was better weather and I was able to get an 84 signal. The TV screen was verifying the info and I was eventually faced with a screen that had 3 columns and two rows and all 6 of those boxes had red X's. I kept going with the process and eventually got a "setup complete" screen or something along those lines and then channel 2 began playing on my TV which is our local CBS channel! SUCCESS!!
I went through some of the channels and I got a large number of channels but some of them just didn't come in at all. I'm guessing that's because I still only had a signal of about 84. I did get a lot of channels though and each channel displayed the program title and program description too.
So I'm happy to report that things are finally working! I'm not going to continue playing with it now because I'm home. I'll be going on my last camping trip of the year in a few weeks so I'll be tweaking the settings when I get there but so far, so good! Thanks for the help!
Oh, and I ran the dish right to the receiver to get things working. Once I got it working I plugged the dish into the cable/sat input connect on the side of the trailer and then used the camper wiring to connect to my receiver. Everything still works! :-)
