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janedoe4955
Explorer
Sep 09, 2016

Cameo Bedroom Cable Not Working

When hooked to various RV Park's cable, we have successfully searched stations on both the Samsung living room TV and the Sansui bedroom TV for 6 years, picking up both analog and digital. Today all of a sudden at this park, the living room is fine (50+ stations) and the bedroom finds "0" on a cable search. Over the air, we're picking up a good amount of both analog and digital, so it's not the digital tuner as originally suggested by Sansui. Sooooo, somewhere in this mess of hard-to-get-to wires behind the walls, it must be the cable line to the bedroom only, right? I have a picture of the docking bay with 3 connections; 1 satellite to living room, 1 satellite to bedroom and one cable that serves both (and must somehow split somewhere). I don't know how to add that picture here for you.
  • janedoe4955's avatar
    janedoe4955
    Explorer
    Sep 13, 2016
    Traveler II wrote:
    I had to replace the splinter on our Cameo, didn't know they could go bad but ours did. Ours also is located on the door side rear compartment.

    Thanks to all of you for responding. I know about the booster, and my original post addresses the 2 TV types and the fact that it has worked fine on both TVs up until now. BUT, to BROARK1 and TRAVELER II, you may be onto something! I am on my wait out to the rear basement to see if the splitter may be bad or connection isn't tight. Thanks for that great advice!!
  • Memphisdoug's avatar
    Memphisdoug
    Explorer
    Sep 11, 2016
    On my trailer, the coax for the cable comes into the trailer to the booster plate. There it is split to go to the living room and to the bedroom. According to the instructions for the booster, the booster should be turned off (little green light will be off) in order to use the cable. See the Operation section here:

    Wingard Booster Instructions
  • Traveler_II's avatar
    Traveler_II
    Explorer
    Sep 10, 2016
    I had to replace the splinter on our Cameo, didn't know they could go bad but ours did. Ours also is located on the door side rear compartment.
  • broark01's avatar
    broark01
    Explorer
    Sep 10, 2016
    dapperdan wrote:
    mobilefleet wrote:
    your signal booster (the push button light on your cable plate) needs to be off when searching for cable channels or it won't find them. Not sure if each of your rooms has their own booster, but turn all of them off


    Good advice, that's what was going on with us in our previous RV. Turned off the signal booster and everything was good!

    Dan


    Good advice above. One other thing, in my Cameo, the signal splitter for the cable and the satellite inputs is located in the rear basement on the passenger side. You can play around with them and see if it makes a difference.
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    Fosters
    Explorer
    Sep 10, 2016
    When I hooked up at the CG, my LVRM cable worked fine and auto scan on cable took over 80 channels. I don't bother with Air. But auto scan in BDRM was ZERO, NADA, NOTHING. I bought my 2009 Bighorn from a gent whom I believe, never ever used the bdrm tv. And I do not believe the Heartland mnftr ever wired the cable to connect to the main lvrm line. So....all I had to do was add a splitter on the CG incoming line to the bdrm coaxial in the display box outside and BINGO, the auto scan produced ALL the same channels as the lvrm!

    U have not replied. Have you resolved your problem?
  • dapperdan's avatar
    dapperdan
    Explorer
    Sep 10, 2016
    mobilefleet wrote:
    your signal booster (the push button light on your cable plate) needs to be off when searching for cable channels or it won't find them. Not sure if each of your rooms has their own booster, but turn all of them off


    Good advice, that's what was going on with us in our previous RV. Turned off the signal booster and everything was good!

    Dan
  • mobilefleet's avatar
    mobilefleet
    Explorer
    Sep 10, 2016
    your signal booster (the push button light on your cable plate) needs to be off when searching for cable channels or it won't find them. Not sure if each of your rooms has their own booster, but turn all of them off
  • GHop's avatar
    GHop
    Explorer
    Sep 10, 2016
    We have a 2016 Northwood Arctic Fox and have the same problem with getting cable reception in the bed room. We where told to put a jumper on the cable connections in the living room.

    Hope this help's
  • GrumpyandGrandm's avatar
    GrumpyandGrandm
    Explorer
    Sep 09, 2016
    It could be the park's cable. Are both TV's Sansui? There are two digital cable formats and according to somneone who sells the equipment, not all TV's pick up both.

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