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obiwancanoli
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Apr 08, 2018

Connecting Wally to TV

As a newbie to the lifestyle, the learning curve can be challenging, as I'm gradually getting the answers I need to feel I'm becoming part of a larger picture. Thanks to all who've helped.

Got a TV pretty firmly attached to a wall, leaving me no access to the back of it, where I suspect the satellite connection port is located. Dismounting the thing seems more involved than it should be, so there must be an easier way, which explains why I'm here...

Connecting satellite to Wally, then Wally, to the TV is so far a mystery. The AV and DVD player (one of two, there's also an identical setup in the bedroom) are in a cabinet above the captains chair.

Connecting satellite to TV is no problem, and I know about turning off the OTA switch to allow cable, but connecting from there I'm still unclear on...

14 Replies

  • Next time buy a tv with inputs on the side instead of the back?

    Sounds to me like you bought a junk mounting kit or didn't use one! ... The good ones are very easy to either tilt the tv to access the back connections or remove the set quickly by releasing a few clips.
  • Bill, what I meant was that connecting the antenna to the RV is simply attaching the cable between each to the port, which is within the power cord bay. Easy. But moving to the inside, the incoming [satellite] connection - to the Wally - and from the Wally to the TV - is my question... it suggests I must run my own cable from the Wally (which is connected to the satellite from a port I haven't found yet, unless it's the OTA switch) to... back of the TV? Or, A connection point NOT on the TV, but at some other point (which is, of course, connected to the TV), thus completing the circuit.

    I understand about the separate Wally / splitter to the bedroom TV. There is a connection port within the cabinet in the bedroom, where a DVD is also housed, and I assume the Wally would be connected to this on one end, and then, via a connection to that TV on the other. This would appear an easier task, as the TV is just below the port access in a cabinet above it.

    Your reply suggests I need to run a cable myself, from Wally to the [primary] TV. If that's how it must be, then I can do that, but I thought there might be an easier way, that is, an easier-to-find connection point already wired into the system, as opposed to my having to manually wire such connection to the back of the TV.

    There IS a [cable] connection port behind, and below, the passenger seat (the OTA / cable on/off switch), so guessing this might be the connection to the satellite access, with that cable connected to the Wally, from which the [primary] TV connection is also made.

    In the end, I'm looking at a relarively simple, easier way to connect everything. But having to run my own cable, hiding it effectively around corners, slides, from view, and having to dis-mount the TV in order to have access to the back all seems like a lot of work which I'd hoped manufacturers might have designed a simpler way to connect everything. Perhaps I am expecting more than I should?
  • The Wally is your satellite TV connection so I am confused when you say you can't figure out how to connect Wally to TV when you also say connecting satellite to TV is no problem.
    As an overview, you will want to have a coax cable running from your satellite antenna to the Wally and an HDMI cable running from the Wally to the 1 TV you want to watch. If you need to connect 2 TV's to satellite then you either need 2 Wally's or you will need an HDMI splitter and route a 2nd HDMI cable to the other TV.
    Yes, accessing the back of the TV can be an issue but you would connect the HDMI cable there 1 time and leave it there once the TV is in place.

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