The last time I purchased a dongle from amazon was in February of 2018. According to my Amazon account.
OTA channels are constantly searching for signal
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Excellent suggestions.
I have a contact at Dish CS that I'm hoping will get me a new dongle. Maybe.
I have the exact same problem. It started about 5 or 6 Hopper3 updates ago. Just downloaded H370 this morning and am keeping my fingers crossed.
The Dish subcontractor came this morning with a very dumbfounded look. Thankfully, he has had other service calls for ota issues, so he wasn't totally clueless.
He played with the settings, by scanning the locals, which was unnecessary. He moved the dongle to the usb 3.0 port, and no locals were found; so I told him to move it back. For a while the hopper scanned but didn't find any locals, and we began to sweat. After a reboot of the hopper, it scanned normally.
Unfortunately, my locals didn't pixelate right away while he was here, but thankfully the local fox channel lost its audio. I played a recorded show from. NBC that pixelated. He didn't have a dongle in his truck to replace.
Summary:
1. The antenna connection on the roof was fine and secure.
2. The connection at the hopper and dongle is fine.
3. That's it.
He made notes, and that was it.
While I knew that the visit wouldn't possibly fix anything, I don't know what's next. I will try to get a new antenna and/or dongle from Dish, but I doubt that I'll make progress since ota is not their focus.
He played with the settings, by scanning the locals, which was unnecessary. He moved the dongle to the usb 3.0 port, and no locals were found; so I told him to move it back. For a while the hopper scanned but didn't find any locals, and we began to sweat. After a reboot of the hopper, it scanned normally.
Unfortunately, my locals didn't pixelate right away while he was here, but thankfully the local fox channel lost its audio. I played a recorded show from. NBC that pixelated. He didn't have a dongle in his truck to replace.
Summary:
1. The antenna connection on the roof was fine and secure.
2. The connection at the hopper and dongle is fine.
3. That's it.
He made notes, and that was it.
While I knew that the visit wouldn't possibly fix anything, I don't know what's next. I will try to get a new antenna and/or dongle from Dish, but I doubt that I'll make progress since ota is not their focus.
Definitely not their focus. But Sling tv the sister company does have ota dvr like Tv Anywhere (4 tuner device) that you can hook your antenna up to and record and you don't have to subscribe to Sling tv, but you do need an account that has access to free channels and I have no issues with ota over it or my TABLO ota dvr. I think it is the dongles themselves that are just crapping out. They need one that isn't so sensitive that it flakes out so often.
But the newest ( white) 4 tuner TABLO works well and you can record all 4 channels at the same time. Like your own personal DISH Prime time Anytime. It doesn't require you to pay for guide information either like the older Analog TABLOS did.
www.tablotv.com
www.airtv.net
But the newest ( white) 4 tuner TABLO works well and you can record all 4 channels at the same time. Like your own personal DISH Prime time Anytime. It doesn't require you to pay for guide information either like the older Analog TABLOS did.
www.tablotv.com
www.airtv.net
Did you ever try hooking up the antenna feed to the TV and having it scanning for channels?
