Adding 2nd tv in bedroom...Some questions...

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36 fifth-wheel. I'm on Dish in the living room and have a Winegard Carryout (two incoming cables. Right now I'm just running them through the window but I'm going to try running through the outside connectors in the power cord compartment. Here are the connectors I have in the bedroom.

Looks a lot like the panel I have in the living room but there I also have an antenna coax connector. Don't know what the coax cable coming ot of the top is though. I included the end of that in the photo. Is one a direct connection to the living room and the others in the panel coming from the outside connectors?

My guess is there is a splitter somewhere after the power cord compartment that sends the signal to both the bedroom and the living room? So if I want Dish in the bedroom I need a 2nd receiver in there? I have a 2nd remote that came with the living room receiver. I am the only person in the rig, so no one will ever be watching one thing in one room and another in the other and I would prefer the operate the bedroom tv independently of the other (which I think means another receiver).

I'm not even sure both the connectors in the outside compartment are working. If they aren't is there a way I can still use Dish in the bedroom by working off the receiver and remote in the living room?

Going to check my owner's manual as well to see if I can figure out how the coax is wired. Just thought someone might know based on the information I have so far.

And any input on flat-screen design as far as traveling? At first I thought the ones with a single post might be a bad choice as the "bobble" but that might actually be an advantage so the screen would give with the motion of the trailer. The bed closed up right under the lip of that shelf so I could also travel with the tv lying flat on the bed.

cannesdo · Answer

I found the coax connector in the living room that leads to the bedroom tv so I coud always run that tv from the living room if I had to. The two coax come in from the carryout, go into the receiver then come out one coax which I could split, yes? (or put one of those directional switches on -- would either work?, and send to both tv's.

But I would prefer to run the bedroom tv from the bedroom so now I'm wondering what everything is in the bedroom. Aux must be the connection from the living room. Cable/antenna -- is that split off and sent to front and back from the antenna? There's no button to press on the bedroom cable/antenna connection which makes me think it's sent forward to the bedroom from the living room panel. So then what's the blue tipped coax?

Hmm....

bumpyroad · Answer

as I understand you have a single dish receiver and want to feed two separate TVs and don't want to/and can't watch two different programs at the same time. should be a simple matter to bypass the antenna booster, via cable input perhaps and feed both TVs. if you don't want to run new wires to rear TV just get a audio/video transmitter device.
bumpy

j-d · Answer

I think you will find that CAB/ANT is connected on the back side of your Winegard RV antenna plate. Assuming you have a crank-up batwing in addition to that dish... If you connect the bedroom TV to that terminal, it should do whatever the living area TV is doing. Batwing if Booster button is pressed and the LED is lit, CATV if you're connected to a site with Cable at your outside terminals.
Does AUX on that bedroom plate have correspondingly marked terminals anywhere else? At this point I can only guess. Fed from a second LNB on a Dish? From a DVD player somewhere in the coach?
I offer this based on my experience troubleshooting a Winnebago C where the cabling got all mis-connected by a well-meaning, expensive and incompetent "professional" and where our Jayco C had its rear bedroom cabling cobbed by a prior owner. You MAY be able to get a cabling diagram from the coach builder. Winegard's site has a diagram of the back of the Plate.

bill_satellite · Answer

It sounds like you have a Dish dual Tuner receiver (DVR?).  If so, that second remote control uses RF signals which go through the walls so you will be able to control the receiver from the bedroom just fine even while it's in the living room.  You should have 2 outputs available from that receiver.  HDMI from the receiver to the TV located near it and then a second coax output that you can connect to the living room wall plate and send the signal to the bedroom TV.  The coax output is usually set to channel 60 as the factory default so once you have it all connected properly you will need to do a new channel scan on the bedroom TV to allow it to find the proper output channel.  To watch satellite you just change the TV to channel 60 (or whichever) and then use the Dish remote to change channels.

cannesdo · Answer

Ah, interesting about the 2nd remote. My living room receiver is a Dish 522. It does say DishDVR on the front. The living room remote has to be pointed right at it but the 2nd will pick it up from the other room? If so then I think I know how to connect everything. Then I can either run DVDs from the living room or get a second player in the bedroom. I have it set up in the living room so that I can flip a switch on a splitter thing to direct the DVD to the tv rather than the satellite signal. It's the output from that "splitter" that I will split again and direct to the coax connection that goes to the bedroom as well.

My living room remote is so old, I'd like to replace it but don't realy want to deal with reprogramming all the codes into it but I guess I'll have to do that with my 2nd remote anyway.

Thanks for the help!

Ok, just reread what you said about the dual output. This is a diagram of the back of my receiver. Right now I have a cable coming out at tv 3-4 out. Where would the second cable going to wall plate to the bedroom come out?

http://www.mydish.com/support/panel-522

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