Taking things into my own hands or how to live with a HR20

Since I've decided to start living on the latest releases as they come out I've added my HR10-250 back into the mix. I figure a lot of other folks are in the same situation as I am and are having isues with the HR20 causing you to miss shows etc and, also have their old HR10-250 lying around.

Here's how I made it work together and even took advantage of the new features of the HR20.

I have a 5 LNB dish with the HR20 in the living room and a DirecTiVo standard definition in the bedroom. Which means all outputs are being used. I also had taken down my rooftop UHF HD antenna since I was getting locals via the satellite.

I got a Zinwell WB68 multiswitch to get me enough outputs to run 3 dual tuner DVRs in the house. I put all 4 of the inputs from the satellite into the Multiswitch and ran cable (under the house, somewhat backbreaking) to the DVRs. Also figured it was a good time to clean up the cabling and replace it with new coax cable which I did.

I did not diplex the OTA signal from the re-installed roof antenna into the Multiswitch but rather split it right behind the two HD DVRs which are right next to each other. No issues with OTA on either receiver.

I also hooked a ethernet cable into the HR20 and into the Airport Express base station hooked up to the AV reciever. Worked like a champ, the base station happily gave it a IP address and it was on the network. Too bad all I have are macs and can't really use this feature right now but, it's there and ready.

So now I have 3 DVR's with 2 tuners each. The HR10 and HR20 are set to record the same shows so now I'm preotected from any HR20 bugs preventing me from watching the shows I want to watch since the HR10 will have them as well.

As soon as the HR20 becomes reliable I can decomission the HR10 again.

But, now I'm protected and the bugs of the HR20 are not as worrysome and I can test th latest versions and see if they address the issues I face. Which the only major one is the immediate delete prompt.