2 Reciever Set up

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I have a new home, with a 2 dish system (Bell), 2 double lnb's, with 4 feeds from the roof to a SW44 in my mech room. From there I have 4 single coax feeds to different locations in the house. I will be adding a sw44a so I can feed 8 locations in the house for flexibility, but considering that I only have one coax feed from mech room to each reciever area. Would I be able to use a DP Plus seperator at one of the reciever locations to spilt the sat feed into two different recievers?
- If it would work could I watch one reciever and record on the second (single tuner PVR)?
- Or would I need to upgrade to DP Plus 44 Switch for this to work?
- Would I have to upgrade my lnb's?
 
NO, DPP separators are used ONLY on DP or DPP installations and even then a separator will ONLY work with a Dual Tuner receiver.



As above, it will not work.



Yes, you would need a DPP44 in order to use a DPP separator on a switch output.



Yes, you would need DP LNBF's.

If you already have all 4 lines into the basement, then adding an SW44A, (which is not supported by Express Vu) would appear to be the easiest way to achieve your 8 output scenario.

I am still slightly confused by the title of your post, "2 Reciever Set up", why would you need 8 outlets for only 2 receivers.???
 
Thanks for the reply Nimiq1.

So sounds like lnb, switch and seperator if I wanted to do that setup.

We have a large house, but currently only really watch TV in a few rooms. We recently upgraded to a 6100 and a 5900 PVR, but kept our old recievers on our account. So if I had two coax feeds to the 5900 PVR location, I could say record on the 5900 and watch something else on the 2700. Poor mans dual Tuner PVR. :)

And yeah the SW44a would get my 8 output reciever secenario running, but would not address being able to do the scenario I described.

I may put the 5900 in the mechanical room and run the output via cat5e to a couple rooms via a video hub and terminate with wall jacks (RCA/S-Video) using baluns. This way a few rooms would have the ability to watch/record with the PVR as well as have their own individual reciever.
 
You can also use diplexers to feed the RF out from the 5900 over the RG6 along with the satellite signal. You will require 2 diplexers for each run of RG6. They cost about $6 each from on-line sources. I do this with a 9200. It works well with that.
 
Biggest advantage with the 9200 is that the Coax output is much higher, about 10dB more than the 5900 I believe.
 
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