USB Digital OTA Tuner For Hopper Connection To A Joey?

[QCK]

Does the USB OTA tuner have to be connected to the Hopper or can you get away with it being connected to a Joey? It would save me some wiring trouble if I could connect it to a Joey and still have it work.

 

[KAB]

Only Hopper. No Joey.

 

[navychop]

"No Coke! Pepsi!"

(sorry)

 

[QCK]

Ok thanks

 

[DishSubLA]

Yeah, we all feel your pain. It sure would've been much easier for me to connect my USB tuners (one for each Hopper) to the Joeys, instead.

 

[boba]

Does the USB OTA tuner have to be connected to the Hopper or can you get away with it being connected to a Joey? It would save me some wiring trouble if I could connect it to a Joey and still have it work.

Joey doesn't have a tuner the Hopper is the one that has the tuners built in. Joey are just dumb slaves, when the Hopper goes out you lose every thing hard drives and tuners are only in the Hopper.

 

[QCK]

I decided for now to get just one Hopper and one Joey. I'm very happy with it's operation. I should have the USB OTA tuner tomorrow. Is it possible to assign it to do the PTAT recordings to free up the receiver tuner it normally uses?

On a side question, what signal level is considered good for the 1.2k dish on the western arc? I live near Montgomery Alabama which is a ways from 129W.

 

[dwarren2]

PTAT uses a sat tuner. All your locals in hd are on the same transponder. That's what is recorded. The ota module can only record 1 channel off you antenna.