Come this November there will be a quad tuner that is released by Air tv by DISH. Then you can hook it up to an external hard drive and record all you want and the guide data is free and complete.
any chance for a new dual tuner ota dongle?
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Wait - I would need an external hard drive instead of using my Hopper 3 hard drive?
It is a separate device. (The Air TV receiver that goes with the quad OTA tuner.) I have no idea if the quad OTA tuner will even work with the Hopper 3, but the last dual tuner model that Air TV released does work with Hoppers.
Yes, that is what I see on my Wally, usually once per week for one of my OTA timers. In my case, though, I am also usually recording another OTA channel at the same time, attempting to use both tuners.
I expected this with my Wally and the dual tuner adapter being it does not have a hard drive.
I was not aware that the adapters would not work with the Hopper 3. Why would Dish push for this if it will not work with their newest receiver?
If I remember correctly, some people in the thread I linked above were able to solve this type of problem by switching to the newer Lark dual OTA tuner, or the Air TV dual tuner. I am still using the old Hauppauge dual OTA tuner with my Wally, so that could be part of my problem.
Since the quad tuner has not been released we do not know what it is or is not compatible with. As for why it might not----well it seems to be for the Air TV product. Working with hoppers is not the main point.
I feel that I should clarify my statement. I meant that the Air TV dual OTA tuner works with all Hoppers, including Hopper 3, Hopper Duo, and Wally. Geronimo beat me to it above, but I was about to say the same thing about the quad tuner.
You can be the first to try it with a Hopper 3. Hopefully I will be the first to try it with a Hopper Duo.
I'll be very interested to see what Dish/AirTV comes up with for a quad tuner. I've been doing a lot of research on these and the one I have my eyes on right now is the FireTV recast, 4 tuner. They aren't cheap though and have a couple of little quirks that I don't like (but could live with) like down rezzing everything to 720p.
Come fall when the new season starts for our shows there maybe one or two nights a week where two tuners won't be enough.
Come fall when the new season starts for our shows there maybe one or two nights a week where two tuners won't be enough.
What has worked well for me is using Plex DVR (I bought a Plex Lifetime pass when it was on sale) which I have 2 Silicon Dust HD HomeRun Extend boxes which gives me 4 tuners. You can get a Silicon Dust 4 tuner box but I wanted the Extend Hardware compression to take the work off of my computers CPU and they don't have 4 tuner extends. Plex does the commercial skip like the Hopper and the Plex server shows up in the Media Player on the Hopper so you can watch it though the Hopper. The down side is you can't record and watch at the same time. That's why I also use a OTA tuner and schedule programs that I want to watch while recording on the Hopper OTA guide when it works which it isn't as of the last software update.
I think it should be someone with ties to the Native American community. Just think of all the favorable publicity.
OK, my 48 hour time period has elapsed with no improvement to OTA guide situation. I called back in and got sent up to a specialist who ran diagnostics and hymed and hawed about how Dish didn't own OTA guide. I asked if they dropped support for OTA which they haven't and had a policy changed as of Wednesday which it hasn't. She took a report to send up to the engineers. BUT apparently I"m the only person in the world that has reported this problem so until more people report it, it will have a rather low engineering priority. If you are effected by the OTA guide no longer working call it in otherwise it will never get fixed. It is very strange that the guide info shows up for the current hour, hour and a half and then there is no information available after that on the main .01 feed. Yet there is programing information available for all the sub channels, it is only the .01 that goes away.
Mark609, what software version are you on? Hit menu key twice to get to the info page. U536 hit me Wednesday morning which broke the OTA guide.
