Got Hopper up and running in the MH!

Adding a USB OTA adapter to your Hopper would give you an additional tuner, but for OTA programming only of course. You could also get a 16 tuner Hopper 3 that would easily support independent programming for the 3 Joey's. The H3 would need a slightly different dish setup than the H2 both at home and in the RV, but it's not complicated.

Ok, thanks to all... really appreciate it. However, I didn't really explain myself very well. Actually where I have 4 TVs is at home....motorhome only has two. So it looks like using a single hopper/joey/solo node would work ok in the motor home, it would not at home where it would be best if I had two hoppers and two joeys.

The only reason I am thinking about this is that with my two 722's, and in my motorhome, they are located in the same cabinet behind the bedroom tv and it gets quite warm in there. I purchase two lap-top coolers that set under each 722 and that helps a little. The cabinet does not have a fan, nor is there an available space to put one.

So I thought a single hopper would be a lot cooler than the two 722's, but it looks like going this way will not work for me when the hopper is in my home. Looks like I'll just stick with the 722's until they burn up.

Thanks again... really, really appreciate it.

Ron

If you are thinking about leasing, don't use the words recreational vehicle. They will have a meltdown. They will tell you that you can't due to vibration and temperature fluctuations. They are really screwy to deal with. Call ten times and you will get ten different answers even on simple questions. This is especially true if the customer service rep is across the water.

I simply told them my Hopper was for a guest house on my property when requesting receiver authorization.

lanerd wrote:
We have been thinking of swapping our our two 722 DVRs for a Hopper and three joeys. So, if I understand correctly, to use the Hopper in the motor home for two TVs, all I need to do is get a solo node and connect it to the Trav'lers #1 cable and then connect the solo node to the Hopper's input. Then to get separate programming for each of the TV's I would have to dis-connect the current HDMI cable that goes to the front TV and connect that to a Joey and then connect the Joey to the TV. For the rear TV (where the Hopper will reside) I can connect directly from the Hopper to the TV.

Is this correct?

Not quite.

First, with 4 TVs you would be hard pressed to get separate programming on each of those 4 TVs . . . since a Hopper with Sling only has 3 tuners, only 3 of your TVs could get each get live programming (1 tuner is used per TV).

Second, for a single Hopper with Sling (not a Hopper 3), you have to connect 2 (of the 3) coax outputs from a Winegard Travler to a Solo Node like so:



I would suggest getting two Hoppers and two Joeys. A Hopper only costs $8/mon more than a Joey + I think DISH will still lease you a 2nd Hopper with Sling. With the two Hoppers networked together, your TVs would have access to 6 tuners instead of only 3.

Also, two Hoppers have a couple of other advanntages:
- If one Hopper goes south, you can still use the other one.
- Eliminates Hopper/Joey "echo". This can happen when your front and bedroom TVs are connected to a Hopper and a Joey. If both TVs are on the same channel, the shows will be out of sync which can be really annoying.

Here's a two Hopper RV network:

Bill.Satellite wrote:
You would not need 3 Joeys in your Tiffin unless you wanted to be able to watch 4 different channels on 4 different TV's at the same time. Most folks install 1 Hopper and 1 Joey. The Hopper would feed all TV's and the Joey would feed the bedroom TV. This allows any TV to watch any channel and the bedroom to select 1 channel and the other 3 TV's select a different (but mirrored) channel.

What Bill said is true. He has given me good advice in the past.

lanerd wrote:
We have been thinking of swapping our our two 722 DVRs for a Hopper and three joeys. So, if I understand correctly, to use the Hopper in the motor home for two TVs, all I need to do is get a solo node and connect it to the Trav'lers #1 cable and then connect the solo node to the Hopper's input. Then to get separate programming for each of the TV's I would have to dis-connect the current HDMI cable that goes to the front TV and connect that to a Joey and then connect the Joey to the TV. For the rear TV (where the Hopper will reside) I can connect directly from the Hopper to the TV.

Is this correct?

Ron

Each install is different depending on your model and sometimes year. Your Travler has an A & B output at the dish. So, you should have two dish output coax cables where they terminate near your current receiver. One is connected to one input on the solo node and the other to the second input. One output on the node goes to the Hopper the other feeds the Joeys via a splitter. You may have some problems if the coax is not up to date. Note in our install we didn't use a Joey. We are feeding all TVs from the Hopper through our digital matrix switch.

You would not need 3 Joeys in your Tiffin unless you wanted to be able to watch 4 different channels on 4 different TV's at the same time. Most folks install 1 Hopper and 1 Joey. The Hopper would feed all TV's and the Joey would feed the bedroom TV. This allows any TV to watch any channel and the bedroom to select 1 channel and the other 3 TV's select a different (but mirrored) channel.

We have been thinking of swapping our our two 722 DVRs for a Hopper and three joeys. So, if I understand correctly, to use the Hopper in the motor home for two TVs, all I need to do is get a solo node and connect it to the Trav'lers #1 cable and then connect the solo node to the Hopper's input. Then to get separate programming for each of the TV's I would have to dis-connect the current HDMI cable that goes to the front TV and connect that to a Joey and then connect the Joey to the TV. For the rear TV (where the Hopper will reside) I can connect directly from the Hopper to the TV.

Is this correct?

Ron