I'm sure this has been posted somewhere but basically one of the purposes of a forum is to share experiences specific to what we're working on whether where gloating about our successes or sulking about our failures.
Lately I've been wanting to expand my setup to include an additional receiver. Since I'm the only one in the house that watches my FTA programming, I knew that what ever works for me would be fine. Another words I did not have to take in consideration of my wife's inability to navigate and learn the workings of a different receiver. I just had to make sure to keep my cost down!
I use the Alien 2 as my main receiver and the Traxis 6000 HD as the receiver I use to assist me when I am fine tuning my setup on the roof.
If I was to expand and add another receiver, the question of changing out my single LNBF's for dual's have crossed my mind. Since I'm the only one that watches I figured I would leave that alone. I've tested my setup with the receivers I have (including the Amiko Nano as a backup) so I know it works.
Well a few weeks ago, I was given a Kindle Fire HDX as a going away gift. At first and actually for a few weeks I wondered how I would even consider using this new device. Then a few days the light bulb went off.
I knew I had read threads before that allowed you to use a tablet remotely by syncing it up with a receiver (Amiko), so I thought "what the heck", I'll give it a try.
My first attempt was a failure. I realized that I did not understand how these tablets worked and knew that I would have to get very comfortable with it before I could attempt to pull this off. So since I've been extremely busy and basically developed the attitude, "I don't want to do anything this weekend", I decided to spend as much time as needed to learn what I had originally set out to do and that was find an alternative to buying a new receiver.
Well I did it. This morning I completed setting up the "big2small" app that allows me to watch my satellite anywhere in the house. I also learned how to mirror the image onto my smart TV where I was contemplating setting up another receiver. So without spending any money on a new receiver, I was able to succeed in meeting my goal of setting up another system in my house.
I did learn that the Kindle Fire was not the easiest to manipulate but it can be done. My understanding is it is not as straight forward as other Android tablets but never the less it can be done. Victory is mine!
Now since I've completed something which I consider worth while and fun, I guess I need to go do my weekend chores. Bummer!
Hopefully this is an appropriate place to start this thread. Good luck in your FTA endeavors.....
Lately I've been wanting to expand my setup to include an additional receiver. Since I'm the only one in the house that watches my FTA programming, I knew that what ever works for me would be fine. Another words I did not have to take in consideration of my wife's inability to navigate and learn the workings of a different receiver. I just had to make sure to keep my cost down!
I use the Alien 2 as my main receiver and the Traxis 6000 HD as the receiver I use to assist me when I am fine tuning my setup on the roof.
If I was to expand and add another receiver, the question of changing out my single LNBF's for dual's have crossed my mind. Since I'm the only one that watches I figured I would leave that alone. I've tested my setup with the receivers I have (including the Amiko Nano as a backup) so I know it works.
Well a few weeks ago, I was given a Kindle Fire HDX as a going away gift. At first and actually for a few weeks I wondered how I would even consider using this new device. Then a few days the light bulb went off.
I knew I had read threads before that allowed you to use a tablet remotely by syncing it up with a receiver (Amiko), so I thought "what the heck", I'll give it a try.
My first attempt was a failure. I realized that I did not understand how these tablets worked and knew that I would have to get very comfortable with it before I could attempt to pull this off. So since I've been extremely busy and basically developed the attitude, "I don't want to do anything this weekend", I decided to spend as much time as needed to learn what I had originally set out to do and that was find an alternative to buying a new receiver.
Well I did it. This morning I completed setting up the "big2small" app that allows me to watch my satellite anywhere in the house. I also learned how to mirror the image onto my smart TV where I was contemplating setting up another receiver. So without spending any money on a new receiver, I was able to succeed in meeting my goal of setting up another system in my house.
I did learn that the Kindle Fire was not the easiest to manipulate but it can be done. My understanding is it is not as straight forward as other Android tablets but never the less it can be done. Victory is mine!
Now since I've completed something which I consider worth while and fun, I guess I need to go do my weekend chores. Bummer!
Hopefully this is an appropriate place to start this thread. Good luck in your FTA endeavors.....
