HD Tivo losing sat inputs

[Ramy]

I am having a problem where my HD Tivo is losing the satellite input. I will be watching something and the other tuner will give a message that the signal has been lost, depends on which tuner I am watching as to which error message I get for that tuner. I had Directv replace the one I had with a new one so it is confusing and I was wanting to know if anyone had any similar problems.

 

[slacker9876]

I may or may not be able to assist to you.

I only had this unit for a day ... but, I am wondering a couple of things. Do you know for a fact there are no cable/connection issues? Also, that you have a proper ground to the dish.

If yes, you know you can still only record two shows at once even though there are four tuners right? Is the issue on a specific tuner (always SAT1 or always SAT2)?

Last but not least, how old is your dish? This is assuming you have the phase III with the built-in multi-switch.

 

[Ramy]

I may or may not be able to assist to you.

I only had this unit for a day ... but, I am wondering a couple of things. Do you know for a fact there are no cable/connection issues? Also, that you have a proper ground to the dish.

If yes, you know you can still only record two shows at once even though there are four tuners right? Is the issue on a specific tuner (always SAT1 or always SAT2)?

Last but not least, how old is your dish? This is assuming you have the phase III with the built-in multi-switch.

Ok, first I get the satellite lost signal on the second input. I checked the cables and switched the inputs with each cable to make sure it wasn't the cable and still get that message. Yes I know you can only have two channels recording at a time, I don't have an antannae anyway. I have the Phase III dish and I have had it now for 1 year and 8 months, by the way my dad's went bad in about 1 year.

 

[slacker9876]

Sounds like a bad tuner, that stinks, but is covered by warranty.

 

[Ramy]

Well I got my HD Tivo replaced and funny thing is that it is doing the same thing, no matter which cable I hook up to the second input it will randomly lose the signal. I am about to take it back and say forget about it.

 

[Neutron]

Do you have a multiswitch or are you using the built in one on the phase-III?

If you are replace the switch. If using the built in one replace the LNB block that has the built in switch.

 

[slacker9876]

Agreed ... if you really want to pin it down on a DiecTiVo you can hook up only sat 2 and it should work fine just as sat 1 did. Of course with a flaky swich you would put in too much time. I would just replace your dish. That is a bummer. Problems with satellite TV suck, but is sure beat the heck out of cable!

 

[Ramy]

Ok, here is what I did. I have three cables coming off of my Phase III dish and so I switched the cable going in the bedroom (the newest cable) with on of the two going to the living room and so far I have not had that problem anymore. I was checking some of the transpoders and noticed a few only had about 50-60 signal while all the others had 92-98. Anyone have an idea why?

 

[slacker9876]

Ok, here is what I did. I have three cables coming off of my Phase III dish and so I switched the cable going in the bedroom (the newest cable) with on of the two going to the living room and so far I have not had that problem anymore. I was checking some of the transpoders and noticed a few only had about 50-60 signal while all the others had 92-98. Anyone have an idea why?

You need to tweak the dish. I would guess your azimuth is off. Back your your original request ... did you try viewing programming on all three LNB's at the same time? Seems odd, because I think Neutron was right with the multi-switch deal.