I just got a call from the dish installer. I'm the second call of the morning, so he will be here in a few hours. He said that this was going to be his first hopper install so we would be learning together.
Install today!
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If he needs help remember we are always here!
Remind him NOT to plug the Joey's into the MoCA line until after the Hopper has downloaded its software and is at its activation screen!
Remind him NOT to plug the Joey's into the MoCA line until after the Hopper has downloaded its software and is at its activation screen!
The Joeys will stall and not obtain their necessary programming and may or may not be able to be reset and unbrick themselves.
If he needs help remember we are always here!
Remind him NOT to plug the Joey's into the MoCA line until after the Hopper has downloaded its software and is at its activation screen!
Scott,
So it is not enough to just wait to plug in power to the Joeys? You need to actually not connect the coax until the Hoppers are done? That is not what the training video shows for "homes that are pre-wired."
Bob
my install will be here in 10 minutes...
... and he was gone in about 10 minutes. He showed up for a two Hopper - three Joey install without a duo node.
My install is scheduled for this afternoon. Should be fairly simple. 1 Hopper, 1 Joey. My only concern is that my oldest HD set, the Sony 65", is DVI and component, no HDMI. It works with the Cox HDMI port using a DVI adapter, so I'm hoping it will work with Dish.
It should, you just have to use the red white audio cable along with the DVI to HDMI adapter.
Well, it's 11:20, another installer just showed up. The installer I talked to earlier is still at the other site, they are going to do this install together. This tech actually went to Hopper training.
Thanks, I hope you're right. My fallback is a 40" flat panel in the 2nd bedroom with HDMI, but I really want that 65" to work.
Install proceeding a bit slowly, the dish, hopper, and joey's (2) are installed, we're waiting for the hopper to config itself. We've been looking at a "Aquiring sattelite signal." screen for some time now, like 20+ minutes. This is the second time we've waited at this screen for some time now, the first time we sat at "Aquiring sattelite signal." for about 20 minutes, then the screen wen't black, we rebooted. Now we're about 20 minutes in again.
You say you have "installed" the Joeys, but are still not finished with the Hopper configuration. I think you are about to "brick" your Joeys. Everyone states that the Hopper(s) must be fully operating with TV programming even before connecting the Joeys to the MOCA . Be careful.
All done. 1 Hopper, 2 Joeys, techs arrived at 11:20, just left at 2:50, took them a while since this was the first one. Nice guys. Now it's time to configure my remotes for my devices and configure my DLNA server.
Actually the spec sheets in the spec sheet sticky show the component HD output.
http://www.satelliteguys.us/hopper-zone/275880-dish-hopper-spec-sheets.html
