Question about the Hopper/Joey system

[mcf57]

I have a family member who has the DISH Hopper/Joey system. From what this family member has told me, the DISH network Joeys seem to borrow a tuner from the main Hopper DVR and he said he sometimes gets a message asking him if he is sure he wants to change the channel (on Hopper) cause it could affect a Joey in another room. I'm thinking this probably also has to do with how much he has recording at one time.

Doesn't the DISH Hopper have 4 tuners? Is there maybe some sort of setting he doesn't have set properly that could help avoid these conflicts? I am with cable so not totally sure how either work and thought I would look into this for them.

 

[sparc]

Doesn't the DISH Hopper have 4 tuners? Is there maybe some sort of setting he doesn't have set properly that could help avoid these conflicts? I am with cable so not totally sure how either work and thought I would look into this for them.

Each hopper has only three tuners that would be shared over the whole system. If he needs more tuners, the easy solution is to get a second hopper.

In some instances, Primetime Anytime could help if that household watches a lot of the broadcast networks during primetime hours. (assuming that's where the conflicts are in that household)

 

[garys]

The fourth tuner would be an OTA one. An Over The Air antenna would have to be mounted and purchase the ota module and scan in the channels to have it work.