2 TV 2 remotes set up

[stimpson]

I have the TV 2 feed from my 522 split. One to my sons room, the other to our game/wifes ironing room. I get ready for work in there in the mornings as well. I have an older UHF Dish remote that I would like to be able to use for TV 2 in the game room so I don't have to hunt for the original TV 2 remote in the sons room in the wee hours of the morning. We all know how neat and tidy nine year old boys keep thier rooms, and the remote is always on his night stand. Yea Right!!! I tried changing the address of the UHF remote but it still wouldn't work. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[TheKrell]

If it's another UHF Pro 6.0 (or better) like the original TV2 remote, then it most definitely should work, assuming it's colored key at the bottom is still set to blue (2). I think the System Info screen shows what channel both tuners are set to. Write down the TV2 channel number. The default for a 522 is probably like my 625: both TV1 and TV2 are set to remote channel 1! (The 522/625 knows which remote it is receiving, because TV1 is IR-only, while TV2 is UHF-only.)

Hold the Sat button down for 5 seconds. All the red buttons should flash. Press the number button you wrote down from the System Info screen followed by the pound sign. The Sat light should flash three times, and you're done.

 

[stimpson]

The colored key at the bottom is not blue or green. It's almost black and says UHF.

 

[garys]

I have an 8.0 UHF Pro remote that came with a 921 and it works as a second tv2 remote on one of my 622's. The chip on this is grey and says "UHF PRO". I have had no problems with it once I changed the remote address to match what the 6.3 IR/UHF PRO remote with the blue chip was set to.

 

[stimpson]

Yep. You jogged my memory. It is grey. I'll try matching it with the blue one tonight. Thanks for the help fellas.

 

[stimpson]

Update. The system info screen shows both remote addresses as 3. The extra remote I'm trying to set up is a 6.3 IR/UHF Pro with a grey tab on the bottom that says UHF. I can't get it to control TV2 at all. It will control TV1, but not TV2. Any more ideas?

 

[TheKrell]

OK, that's good. I abhor the use of the same address for both tuners, because then you can't control TV1 via UHF remote. As I mentioned above, the only way the receiver can figure out which remote it is "hearing" is by assuming that IR=TV1 and UHF=TV2. If your remote puts out both IR and UHF (which most of them do), then what? I would use your IR remote to change TV1 back to channel 1, though that's probably not necessary since you have a 6.3 remote.

The 6.3 UHF pro is the "universal" remote. You can, through judicious use of the keys that (I hope) came with it, control any tuner of any Dish receiver. The key you want is the blue UHFPro tab with a black "2". I also have a 6.0 UHF Pro remote from a 625, and this works with the blue tab and blue (same color) "2".

 

[stimpson]

I have no keys. Where can I get those? Again, thanks a ton for your help!!!

 

[TheKrell]

Don't know where you can get new keys for that thing. You could just take the key out and manipulate the switch manually, in order to get it to work for TV2. If you don't like the look or feel of the remote without the key, you could just carve on the existing key so that it doesn't move the switch, and put it back that way.