Putting Dish TV in my RV when I already have it in my home..

I gave up moving the Hopper, Joeys and WiFi boxes back and forth so I bought a 211z and will soon buy Pathway X2 to replace the tripod.

$400 delivered.

The X2 can find eastern and western arcs and can feed two boxes.

The 211 supports DVR function but it is one channel at a time.

Now I can leave the Hopper at home grinding away.

Find a local independent Dish contractor and pay him to come out and set you up. You will get some sort of tripod, a dish with associated hardware, coax cable all connected to your equipment. Once it is set up you will know how and what you need. Might cost you a few dollars more up front, but at the end of the day you will have everything you need without the hassles.

Good Morning.. we use a Dish 612 DVR receiver in the RV and connect to either our Winegard Travler or tripod mounted 1000.4 sat dish. Rarely do we have to use the tripod dish as the Winegard does a pretty good job even under trees. When we do use the tripod mount it's easy to set up using the Dishpointer app on my phone. Just takes some practice to get it. Was a little frustrating in the beginning getting it right, But practice makes perfect! We can watch and record 2 sat stations at the same time plus get local OTA channels with this setup.

Dave

We have a Hopper w/Sling and a Joey installed at our Adirondack cottage, and another Hopper w/Sling installed in our motorhome. We use a tripod mounted triple LNB 1000.4 dish that I set up at each stop, and have both eastern and western arc LNB's for it that I interchange as needed for the best reception on treed sites. We have another pole mounted 1000.4 installed at the cottage. When we're traveling, I use the Dish Anywhere app to tell the cottage Hopper to record programs that we'll miss while underway for later viewing either with the app or when we return to the cottage. On the road, I change our service address as often as daily to get the local stations, which also changes them for the cottage where they often won't be received since it's usually outside of the spot beam coverage. That's not a problem though, since the cottage Hopper also gets that area's locals over the air. When we're back at our site at the cottage, I connect the motorhome Hopper to the permanent dish, making both Hopper's recorded programs available on either Hopper.

Setting up the dish at campsites rarely takes me longer than 15 minutes, including aiming. I use the DishPointer app on my phone to find the best location with a clear view of the sats. There are no portable automatic dishes available that work with the Hopper. Only the roof mounted Winegard Trav'ler or equivalent works, but besides the big bucks to buy one you're also much more limited by tree cover on camp sites. The Trav'ler only receives the Dish western arc sats automatically, although it can be manually dialed in to individual eastern arc sats.

All of our Dish equipment is purchased and on a month-to-month no contract plan.

I would contact a Dish network Support team member on the satelliteguys webpage www.satelliteguys.us

You will have to setup a free account on this page and then go to this forum. dish forum for dish network questions.

There is a "sticky" with the information how to contact a DIRT member.. they are great and can answer all of your questions.

I'm not sure if you can get a receiver with 2 tuners but I have a VIP211k and it does have both over the air receiver and a dish receiver so I can watch one while recording on the other.

I believe that the new Wally receiver allows a usb drive to be connected to make it a DVR receiver.

Again the best help I have found is with the DIRT members of the satellite guys forums.