I have an access point, and a CWNA Wireless Network Professional certification which makes me confident I can handle it. Not that I'd need it - they said they'd send a wireless Joey to me if I added it or signed up for a maintenance contract. Not sure what you are alluding to about nefarious -...

Been with Dish 27 years, prior to that - Echostar. I have a Hoppper 3, Wally, and two Joeys. I called today to ask Dish to upgrade one of the Joeys to a wireless model ($25 fee - Ok by me) , but they insisted I needed a Tech visit ($150) to do it. After saying (politely) "no way", CSR put me...

I have been getting and ignoring this Hopper message for probably a year now. This thread prompted me to call it in, and I was told I needed to buy a new receiver, since mine was out of warranty. It still works, however. The CSR provided no clues as to what was wrong. For future readers of this...

I used a hand bearing compass to see which end of the campsite had the most open view - in my case, following dishpointer.com's 151 degrees magnetic specs for Dish 500 (110/119). To summarize, I know I'm aiming in the right direction. I know taking the home/home/home menu to dish shows ample...

Thanks for the reply, Ruebenray. I have my Wally and EHD in a HIDEits mount velcro'd to back of TV (makes it very off balance and hard to keep horizontal). So basically, when I plug in Wally to 110vac it starts the EHD and the playmaker. I still can't wrap my head around why if there's...

My last post regarding this situation did not result in any solutions (Odd Wally Behavior, May 17, 2024). This is an updated status. I am back at my usual campground. Arriving after dark I misjudged proper location for the Playmaker and got the Wally "no satellites found" message. However...

Thanks for the explanation! Makes perfect sense.

Not sure waiting for receiver to update itself always applies: Today I tried to upgrade from h.374 to h3.75 and the manual update went to h3.76. What happened to auto update to 3.75?

First few times the sat went through check switch (full green bar filled to right end) but then before "acquiring signal" it went to full screen about no satellites and check for obstructions. I could hear antenna working normally, especially when I had it on roof of trailer. I usually bring a...

I'm at a campsite, (been here often and know where 110/119 is) and I set up my Wally and Playmaker antenna. I get a "no satellites found" message. Ok, maybe it was the adjacent large RV south of me, but after moving antenna 4 times, including on my trailer roof, I keep getting "no satellites...

I got this offer this morning - such a deal - it started yesterday :coco

Thanks sktrus. I'll choose to keep the OTA as it might be better resolution, but as Jim said, probably not worth obsessing over.

Thanks HipKat. I'll try that. My other concern is to choose which file to keep between multiple recordings already completed, so as to keep the one with the higher resolution. I would assume a larger file size would indicate higher recording quality, but I don't know that for a fact nor even...

One of my timers is set to "seek". I am getting multiple duplicate recordings of episodes from a local station, and USA network. Both are "HD". Is there a good way to decide which one to keep? Thanks!

Hard to give a definitive answer, but probably, yes. I've used a variety of drives with my Wally. I've had nothing but problems with 500G drives, but my current (ex-laptop) 750G drive has worked flawlessly for over a year now. Occasionally I get a USB interface the Wally doesn't like, but if...