Sounds like your HR20's SWM tuner capability died. Not a common problem. Other than replacing it there's nothing you can do. You won't get all of the HD channels using the SWM's Legacy output.
Oddity on my HR20-100
My sole HR20-100 started to act little strange over this past week (BTW, this is not a good thing as this is the wife's DVR).
Anyway, THE HR20-100 is connected to the SWM-8 (port 2) and all has been well since I received this unit over a year ago.
Earlier this week, the TV began displaying 'Searching for Satellite' messages on the unit. I have checked the cables, etc. with the SWM meter and everything tests out okay. I have rebooted the unit on several occasions and nothing seems to resolve the issue.
Signal reading show 100 on transponder 1 of 101 and 0's on everything else.
If I plug the unit into the legacy port on the SWM-8, I can get it to behave itself. If I take a HR20-700 from one of the other rooms and plug it in using SWM and she works beautifully.
Signal reading with either of these scenarios produces levels in the mid-90's on 101 and high 90's on the SWM module.
FYI, I also tried re-downloading the national release to see if that would make any difference.
Other then exchanging the unit with DirecTV, does anyone have any suggestions how I might rescue this unit? the wife has maybe 50 hours of programming she has yet to watch and would be quite heart broken to lose it.
Anyway, THE HR20-100 is connected to the SWM-8 (port 2) and all has been well since I received this unit over a year ago.
Earlier this week, the TV began displaying 'Searching for Satellite' messages on the unit. I have checked the cables, etc. with the SWM meter and everything tests out okay. I have rebooted the unit on several occasions and nothing seems to resolve the issue.
Signal reading show 100 on transponder 1 of 101 and 0's on everything else.
If I plug the unit into the legacy port on the SWM-8, I can get it to behave itself. If I take a HR20-700 from one of the other rooms and plug it in using SWM and she works beautifully.
Signal reading with either of these scenarios produces levels in the mid-90's on 101 and high 90's on the SWM module.
FYI, I also tried re-downloading the national release to see if that would make any difference.
Other then exchanging the unit with DirecTV, does anyone have any suggestions how I might rescue this unit? the wife has maybe 50 hours of programming she has yet to watch and would be quite heart broken to lose it.
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Also check to see the switch is grounded properly. I had problems like that until I grounded the system, then they went away.
Is this true? I thought the legacy ports would work just fine for all 5 sats if an HR20 were connected to two outputs.litzdog911 said:...You won't get all of the HD channels using the SWM's Legacy output.
From what I've heard you say about your wife, I'd be very concerned about this! :eek2: I'd unplug everything - all receivers, sat feeds and the PI - from the SWM for about 10 minutes and see if that helps.fluffybear said:My sole HR20-100 started to act little strange over this past week (BTW, this is not a good thing as this is the wife's DVR).
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