SargeW
Site Team
I have had my rig now about 10 months, and have had the Direct DVR in it since it was new. I have always had one satellite feed hooked into the Sat 1 input jack. This allows recording of programs on the DVR as long as we were not watching a different channel.
Then last night I had an thought out of the blue. If I have two feeds coming out of the satellite dome (I do) and two inputs into the DVR (I do), why can't I hook them together?
Sure enough, looking in the Audio/Video cabinet I located another coax marked "Satellite feed 2". Using a piece of coax and a few connectors, I hooked it to the Sat 2 input jack. At first when I checked the Sat meters in the setup menu, I only showed signal on Sat 1.
Going into satellite setup, I had to reset the satellite inputs to reflect "2 Tuners" in the setup menu. Then I let the satellite box go through it's own setup steps, and it found and initiated the second tuner.
Now I show 2 tuners with signal. So now I can watch one show, while a secondary program is recording on the other line ;D
My 2010 Journey didn't have the ability to connect two lines to the back of the satellite box, instead I had to have 2 separate boxes in order to get programming on different TV's. Now I can use the DVR for what it was really intended for!
Then last night I had an thought out of the blue. If I have two feeds coming out of the satellite dome (I do) and two inputs into the DVR (I do), why can't I hook them together?
Sure enough, looking in the Audio/Video cabinet I located another coax marked "Satellite feed 2". Using a piece of coax and a few connectors, I hooked it to the Sat 2 input jack. At first when I checked the Sat meters in the setup menu, I only showed signal on Sat 1.
Going into satellite setup, I had to reset the satellite inputs to reflect "2 Tuners" in the setup menu. Then I let the satellite box go through it's own setup steps, and it found and initiated the second tuner.
Now I show 2 tuners with signal. So now I can watch one show, while a secondary program is recording on the other line ;D
My 2010 Journey didn't have the ability to connect two lines to the back of the satellite box, instead I had to have 2 separate boxes in order to get programming on different TV's. Now I can use the DVR for what it was really intended for!