942 as a single-tuner receiver?

[MacNH]

I just received a new 942 to replace my 6000.
It would be very difficult for me to run a 2nd line
into my basement family room to support the 2nd tuner.


Dish is going to upgrade my DISH 500 and SW64 to DishPro+ and use
a seperator, so that I can get the full function 2 tuner functionality
with the single coax run....

Now my question....

Its going to be 3 weeks before the install is done. As you can imagine,
I'm hungry to play with my new 942 NOW. Even as a single
tuner unit for the time being. Can I do this? Teir 2 Tech Support at
Dish told me I cannot, that both satellite inputs must be connected or
else the unit will not work correctly, and will likely lock up. She
even refused to activate my new 942.

I'm certain i read here before that it can be done. How? Do I need to
terminate the un-used Sat2 input? Any help much appreciated...

[MacNH]

After playing with/learning the 942 last night, I was successful in getting it to operate with just Sat1 input, as a single-tuner receiver.....

[Mark Lamutt]

If you have only one of your tuners connected, you will run into problems. Please keep that in mind, when timers start not recording.

[MacNH]

Mark,

Timers were an issue until I configured it like this:

- Dual Mode
- Record Plus Enabled
- Record Preference TV1

All has been working perfectly now for almost 2 days, including numerouse timers.

Mac