[N5SBP]

My current setup is Au9S Slimline with builtin 5X4 multiswitch (?) and an HR20-700. I have dedicated 2 of the dish outputs to the HR20 tuners but want to reclaim one of these cables for another use. Can I install a 21VDC Power Inserter (PI-21) and a SWS-2 wide band splitter to reduce my cables to the HR20 to just one?

In several places I have read the BCCs are completely removed from this configuration. Also in the D* SWM field operations training document implies that only ONE RG6 is connected to the HR20. If that's the case why do I need the SWS-2 splitter? Is the new software magically making the 2 tuners work off just one RG6 in SAT IN port 1?

Thanks,
Jim

 

[BattleZone]

No, you cannot.

In order to "split lines" with your existing LNB, you'd need all 4 lines going to a multiswitch, and separate lines from the multiswitch to each tuner.

OR

You would need to change over to SWM equipment. Assuming the HR20 is the only receiver you have, you could get a 5-LNB SWM-enabled LNB and power inserter. This LNB only has one output, which is run to the power inserter, and from the power inserter, is split as necessary to feed a single coax to each receiver. On a dual-tuner recever like your HR-20, once coax from a SWM to the Tuner 1/FTM input will run both tuners. A SWM LNB supports up to 8 tuners.

You could also get an external SWM-8, but from what you describe, the SWM LNB would be much easier, provided all your receivers are SWM compatible.

 

[evan_s]

The AU9S is the part for the swmline dish but it only has one output on the dish so something doesn't add up there. Do you currently have BBCs hooked up?

If you actually have the SWM dish you only need 1 cable going into the input 1 with no BBC to get full functionality from the receiver with both tuners functioning. I'm not sure thats actually what you currently have tho.

 

[N5SBP]

It appears I do NOT have an SWM dish. I have a Slimline 5 LNB dish with an integrated multiswitch (a 5X4, I guess). Thought that made my dish a SWM - guess not! So I have to do what is called a "module SWM" AKA a SWM-8 multiswitch with 29VDC power inserter. The Solid Signal description of the SWM-8 says I need firmware .2042 in order to be SWM compatible; how do I do that?

 

[Mertzen]

The Solid State description of the SWM-8 says I need firmware .2042 in order to be SWM compatible; how do I do that?

Check the 'info screen' on your box. If your box is regularly connected to the sat it will have the latest national release which should be good.

 

[N5SBP]

My software release is 0x0254, downloaded around July 23rd but that is not firmware is it?
Someone said the firmware comes from the multiswitch???
I think they mean the "SWM" word appears on the Signal Strength screen etc when and only when the firmware is the right level.
I'll check for some info screen tonight when I get home.


Other posts talk about the 0x0254 etc as if it IS firmware. Boy am I confused!
Is 0x0254 more or less current than .2042?

 

[BattleZone]

My software release is 0x0254, downloaded around July 23rd but that is not firmware is it?

In this case, it's the same thing (it's a case of people using the wrong terminology). If your receiver is active right now, it has the latest software, and you'll be fine.