New Dual Tuner OTA Adapter

[oryan_dunn]

and you might make your dongle become a doorstop...

It'd make a pretty poor doorstop. And you wouldn't make it a doorstop...

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[Hall]

and you might make your dongle become a doorstop...

Installing the "wrong" driver does nothing physically to the piece of hardware

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[Hall]

and you might make your dongle become a doorstop...

Installing the "wrong" driver does nothing physically to the piece of hardware

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[oryan_dunn]

Dish subbing this out is clearly what they did. A vendor ID swap is very easy to do, and it allows them to limit the hopper to only their branded adapter, and also makes it so it's harder to use their adapter on a PC.

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[comfortably_numb]

Dish subbing this out is clearly what they did. A vendor ID swap is very easy to do, and it allows them to limit the hopper to only their branded adapter, and also makes it so it's harder to use their adapter on a PC.

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Yep. They even used Hauppauge's naming convention, using the 955x model numbers.


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[donebu]

Well, I connected the OTA adapter to my PC running Windows 7 Professional. It recognized it and immediately started searching online for drivers for "955D." A quick Google search pulls up Hauppauge 950Q and 955Q dongles which look identical to this "955D" (assuming that means 955 'DISH'). So, I downloaded the drivers for 950Q and 955Q, but it didn't recognize the hardware.

There we have it, folks. Hauppauge is indeed the manufacturer and it appears to be identical to the 955Q.

It's not the 955Q, the 955Q is a single tuner dongle, it's the Hauppauge 955D that it's based on:

http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_dualhd.html

The Windows drivers for the 955D are here:

http://www.hauppauge.com/site/support/support_dualhd.html

But the Windows drivers for the Hauppauge WinTV-dualHD TV model 01595 probably won't work with the Dish dual OTA adapter because they have different device IDs:

Hauppauge WinTV-dualHD TV model 01595 (USB device ID 2040:026d)

Dish dual OTA: (USB device ID 2040:826f)

 

[joegr]

You could possibly edit the windows driver file to change the ID number to the one that Dish has programmed in. That might be all that is needed to make it work on a Windows PC, but then why would you want to?

 

[oryan_dunn]

You could possibly edit the windows driver file to change the ID number to the one that Dish has programmed in. That might be all that is needed to make it work on a Windows PC, but then why would you want to?

Just because has been a pretty good reason for many things throughout history...

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[dare2be]

and you might make your dongle become a doorstop...

Ouch!

 

[comfortably_numb]

Ouch!

be careful with your dongle


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[donebu]

Well I tried the WinTV-dualHD driver version 34210 on my Windows 10 laptop running Kodi and NextPVR and the Dish dual OTA adapter was recognized and worked fine. Your mileage may vary, I take no responsibility if your dongle becomes a doorstop.

 

[comfortably_numb]

Well I tried the WinTV-dualHD driver version 34210 on my Windows 10 laptop running Kodi and NextPVR and the Dish dual OTA adapter was recognized and worked fine. Your mileage may vary, I take no responsibility if your dongle becomes a doorstop.

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So you were able to use the Dish dongle on your PC with the drivers for the Hauppauge Dual? Did you have to do anything special?


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[donebu]

So you were able to use the Dish dongle on your PC with the drivers for the Hauppauge Dual? Did you have to do anything special?


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Nothing special, but I don't have a good TV tuner program on my Windows 10 laptop, so I had to go with Kodi and NextPVR to test the Dish dongle. I wanted to use Hauppauge's WinTV v8 application, but it's evidently tied to the hardware you buy it with, it wouldn't take the serial number that came with the Hauppauge WinTV-quadHD tuner card used in my home theater PC. I use Windows 8 Media Center with that tuner card.

 

[jasonh1965]

Dual tuner support will be available before May.


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The fiasco with Hearst convinced me to go OTA for my locals. I've bought the antenna, and just waiting now on the USB dongle to arrive. Can anyone advise if the second tuner functionality has been enabled yet?

 

[JSheridan]

The fiasco with Hearst convinced me to go OTA for my locals. I've bought the antenna, and just waiting now on the USB dongle to arrive. Can anyone advise if the second tuner functionality has been enabled yet?

Not yet but soon.

 

[jasonh1965]

Not yet but soon.

Thanks for the quick answer. One more question, has the guide data improved any for the sub-channels?

 

[JSheridan]

Thanks for the quick answer. One more question, has the guide data improved any for the sub-channels?

Depends on your market. Around here about half the sub-channels have data and half don't.

 

[johnch]

I have an ota adapter with a Hopper 2. Is the ota upgradable?

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[DWS44]

I have an ota adapter with a Hopper 2. Is the ota upgradable?

Are you asking if the old adapter can be "upgraded" to support dual-tuners? If so, then no, you would need to purchase the new dual-tuner OTA adapter for that.

 

[comfortably_numb]

If you don't need dual tuners, keep the old one. It has a much more sensitive tuner IMO


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