Confused on Directv

I recommend having the same dish type in both so you don't have to change settings when you move the box. I use SWM SL. That means one wire from your dish to your splitter/inserter. I run mine from the dish to outside factory cable input which gets the signal to my AV area. I didn't go the Genie route as if your master unit dies, the Genies are useless. They also required wires back then. Today I would probably go with Genies. I bought an extra SWM LNB, splitter and PI from the installer when they upgraded me to to SWM. I would recommend a surveyor type tripod. Lowes has them for $80 or so. You can bolt the dish bracket to a 4" X 10" aluminum plate and mount it to the tripod with a big eyebolt and wing nut up from the bottom.