What did you do to your Toy Hauler today???
This is always a fun thread to watch so I thought I would start one here.
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I installed my new Dish Tailgater satellite.
I was hoping that I would be able to watch satellite TV on any of the 4 TV's (living, garage, bedroom, outside) without major wiring modifications. I knew I would have to watch the same channel as the dish itself is limited. I also wanted to be able to watch antenna programming on any TV.
The trailer was wired to do exactly what I wanted. I connected the coax from the dish to my connection outside the trailer. I connected the receiver box to one of the connections on a wall plate that had two coax connectors on it. I took another piece of coax and connected it from the "out to TV" on the receiver and connected it to the other connection on the wall plate. The TV in the living area was connected from the receiver using HDMI.
What all this did was allow for antenna TV on any TV. The living area TV can watch either one just by switching inputs. The other TV's work by turning off the antenna booster, switching to channel 3 and use the Dish remote to change channels.
I have a couple more things to do. I need to figure a good way to install the receiver in my cabinet. It is about 3/4" too shallow. I could cut out the back wall portion of the cabinet as they did to fit in the DVD/surround sound receiver but I don't know that I want to make that kind of modification. I may just tilt it up in the cabinet. I also need to obtain a IR to RF remote control device. That way the receiver stays in the cabinet and I can use the Dish remote at any of the TV locations. A friend bought one and it seems to work really well for the same type of use.
I was hoping that I would be able to watch satellite TV on any of the 4 TV's (living, garage, bedroom, outside) without major wiring modifications. I knew I would have to watch the same channel as the dish itself is limited. I also wanted to be able to watch antenna programming on any TV.
The trailer was wired to do exactly what I wanted. I connected the coax from the dish to my connection outside the trailer. I connected the receiver box to one of the connections on a wall plate that had two coax connectors on it. I took another piece of coax and connected it from the "out to TV" on the receiver and connected it to the other connection on the wall plate. The TV in the living area was connected from the receiver using HDMI.
What all this did was allow for antenna TV on any TV. The living area TV can watch either one just by switching inputs. The other TV's work by turning off the antenna booster, switching to channel 3 and use the Dish remote to change channels.
I have a couple more things to do. I need to figure a good way to install the receiver in my cabinet. It is about 3/4" too shallow. I could cut out the back wall portion of the cabinet as they did to fit in the DVD/surround sound receiver but I don't know that I want to make that kind of modification. I may just tilt it up in the cabinet. I also need to obtain a IR to RF remote control device. That way the receiver stays in the cabinet and I can use the Dish remote at any of the TV locations. A friend bought one and it seems to work really well for the same type of use.
