522 capabilites...

[Floydian]

Ok... right ow I ahve the 522 set up with one line coming into the house. (I'm getting all kinds of errors)

SO... the satellite guy is coming out to run a second line (and put a second hole in my house) to the 522.

I only need the 522 on one TV so I assume I can hook one side of the 522 up to one of my inputs and the other side to the other set of inputs on my TV allowing me to watch one program while taping anther.

Is this a correct assumption.

 

[volkodav]

your 522 have mode button in front of the receiver if you press that it will switch to single mode that way you can have picture in picture. as far as one line goes to receiver check in a back see if you have separator it looks like 2 way splitter

 

[volkodav]

or go to to system info it will do self test and it will tell you what you have for switches and LNB. let us know and we will let you know if he have to run another line to your 522.

 

[gbjbany]

Not sure i fully understand what you are saying.

You currently have 1 cable with a seperator (1 cable from outside to 2 cables going into the receiver).

I am assuming based on what you describe,

You will have two cables from the outside to the 522. Both will be connected to the receiver instead of the seperator.

None of this should affect how you connect the receiver to the TV. Unless i completely dont understand what you are saying.

 

[Floydian]

The way I have it now... (it's kinda convoluted)

I have 1 cable coming in to my HD receiver.
I have a 522 hooked up to the same TV so I can record (too cheap to by the HD recorder... and glad now sice they ars switching to mpg4)

Anyway... I have 2 cables coming into the house... one for the HD and one for the 522. Since I have a HD dish I can't split the 522 cable so I only have one cable running to it (not the optimal set-up)

Soo... now I have to run a third cable to my box I guess... unless anyone knows a different way.

Can I possibly split the HD cable as opposed to the 522 cable since it is on a second line?

 

[SimpleSimon]

No installer would leave a 522 with only one tuner attached.

I suspect you have a DPPlus Separator attached to the back of the 522.

Also, with an HD receiver, chances are you have a Dish1000 with DPPlus-Twin LNB.

 

[Floydian]

I wish I could tell you that was correct... but I don' think it is.

My installer told me that they didn't make a HD dish that would allow the line split capability. I had to have either line split or the HD which leaves me with three lines running into my livingroom.

Is there another way? Is there a different piece they can use (I don't know what it is... (the head of the dish) that would work better?

 

[gbjbany]

Im still confused not sure if simon is

"I have 1 cable coming in to my HD receiver. What model is this HD receiver ?)
I have a 522 hooked up to the same TV so I can record

It sounds like you have 2 receivers a 522/625 re http://www.satelliteguys.us/showthread.php?t=53378 plus something else. one cable to each from the same dish. But you are looking for a second cable to the 522/625 so you can view and record at the same time.

So you want these receivers both connected to the same TV so you can use the hd receiver to watch hd and the 522/625 to watch SD channels and record them too.

Is this what you are asking ?

I wonder did you have the 2 cables connected to the 522 and then when you got the hd receiver "borrow" the cable form the 522 ?

Anyway to connect both tuners in the 522 and the HD receiver, you need a 3rd cable or a use a Dish Pro plus seperator on the cable connected to the 522, but that requires a Dishpro plus dish lnb or a switch ,which i suspect you dont have. You would need tolet us know what type of LNB and if you have any switches.

 

[SimpleSimon]

Yeah - I'm done until the OP actually gives us decent details. If he's too lazy to look at the back of the receiver for a DPP-Sep, I'm too busy to help him.

Dish doesn't make an "HD Dish". Although it's probably a D1000 - in which case, it's probably got a DPPlus-Twin - which means he CAN run the 522 with a DPP Separator.

 

[Jared Twomey]

ok, heres my quess...
he has a 811 and a 522 hooked up in one room, but only two lines coming into the room. He has one line to the 811 and one to the 522 (which is why he is having errors- the 522 gets all confused with only one feed). So the installer now realizes that he messed up so he is going to come back to run the second line that he should have ran a long time ago.
Now to address his problem... Since you have HD i'm going to assume you either have 2 seperate dish's or a dish1000. The simplest fix would be to replace your twin for a DPPtwin, run the third satellite feed into the input side of the DPPtwin. Then run one feed to the 811, and one feed into a seperator for the 522.
How long ago did you have the system installed? if it was recently, insist that the installer come back and do it the right way....

 

[Floydian]

Thank you birddoggy.

I'm fairly new to all this so when you start asking questions of numbers and such I get all confused.

You nailed it. I have one dish outside (not sure which one and not sure how to find out)

I guess my question is... can I split off the wire that's running in to the 811 so that the 625 has 2 different lines?

Only one line is running into the 625 and it keeps giving me errors. The installer tried to split the line going into the 625 (from itself) but said that I had the wrong kind of dish. That's why I'm thinking of splitting the 811 line to hit both receivers... the 811 and the 625 as opposed to having to hide and bore another line into my living room.

 

[gbjbany]

Ok so you need to tell us what type of dish you have.
The simplest way is to go to check swicth on the receiver and then post what it says, do this on the 625. This will help us tell you what to do to do what you want.

As birddooggy says, if it was recently installed, call them to fix it, dish does have dishes to support what you want.

 

[Jared Twomey]

Thank you birddoggy.

I'm fairly new to all this so when you start asking questions of numbers and such I get all confused.

You nailed it. I have one dish outside (not sure which one and not sure how to find out)

I guess my question is... can I split off the wire that's running in to the 811 so that the 625 has 2 different lines?

Only one line is running into the 625 and it keeps giving me errors. The installer tried to split the line going into the 625 (from itself) but said that I had the wrong kind of dish. That's why I'm thinking of splitting the 811 line to hit both receivers... the 811 and the 625 as opposed to having to hide and bore another line into my living room.

no, you cannot split the cable going to the 811. The "splitter" behind the 625 is not really a spliiter... it is a seperator. It seperates the stacked signal from the new DishProPlus Lnbs. Which makes sense that you said that the installer told you that you had the wrong kind of dish.... It needs to have a DishProPlus twin LNB on it, that is the only way (except for with a DPP44 switch... had to include that so I didn't get corrected ) to make it work like you want it to.
Sounds like to me the installer either is new or doesnt know what he is doing if he is trying to either "split" the signal, or use a seperator without a DPP lnb.
so, short version... leave the seperator behind the 625, replace exsisting lnb with DPP twin Lnb. Run "check switch".... waalaa, working receviers