Direct TV Setup

I use a Slimline dish, run two HD receivers off a splitter. The PI is set up beside my dual tuner receiver HR24.

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If not, no.:)

RR24 wrote:
slimline3, if I only run one receiver do I need a power inserter or switch?

If it's a SWM lnb, yes.

I dont mean to hijack, but have a question about the slimline3, if I only run one receiver do I need a power inserter or switch?

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I was planning, if the dish would work, to set up the SWM PI and splitter in the front compartment right aside of the convenience center where the cable runs to the living room and bedroom start. They are dedicated runs for satellite. The DVR is a HR 24 HD Receiver and the one I am putting in the bedroom is a HR 25 HD Receiver. I guess I only need a source for the Power Inserter and the DC pass splitter.

One of mine is a HR23 the other is a HR700. The HR700 requires a b band converter. I use the slimline 3 multi switch setup.

Is your bedroom receiver an H25? I don't believe there is an HR25. If it is an H25, that receiver requires a SWM setup. Which you could do, if you want. You'd probably want a SWM8 switch and then you'd need a power inserter for the SWM8. You'd plug all four wires from your dish - probably right at the dish - into the SWM8 and run one wire to your trailer. That one wire would plug into the power inserter, and the satellite output from the power inserter would plug into a 2- way SWM splitter; one output to each TV.

Or, you could forget the SWM setup and run two outputs - any two - to the HR24; with the two inputs, you'd be able to watch one channel and record another (which will also work with one SWM input). But then your H25 won't be able to work.

kab449 wrote:
Am I correct in my assumption that I will need a power inserter and a splitter to send the signal to the two receivers? What settings will I use for the receivers? .

For a SWM dish, yes, the PI should come with its own special splitter. You can use one coax for the DVR instead of two using SWM. Setting=SWM3, dual tuner.

Unless you outfit your rv with a SWM setup, you will need to run two separate coax cables from the dish then one directly to each receiver with no splitters. It doesn't matter which pigtail you use on the slimline dish. I run two HD receivers in my fiver and run two cables from the dish. One goes to the "satellite prep" feed to the living room TV receiver (direct run). The other cable runs from the dishto the "cable in" feed to the 2nd TV receiver. I had to modify the rv's factory coax wiring to isolate the "cable in" feed from the antenna amplifier for this to work.