two boxes one dish ? ?

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i need to know if it is possible to have two receivers using one dish , he has twin lnb fitted to the dish but surely you cant have two recievers using the one dish.

the first receiver is set up with usals and works fine
the second i set up yesterday as "simple" positioner and entered his long and lat but he got nothing
i am assuming all i need to do is go into advanced settings on the box and just select the second lnb but even then you wouldnt be able to watch two different things on the boxes ? ? ?

its completely confused me .

i just want to know how i set them up if it can indeed be done
 
One needs to be in standby.

Maybe i missing something manic but why would that matter?

I have my mums mini dish with twin lnb going to her samsang tv to get freesat and the other cable to her spiderbox.

Im no expert so dont shoot me down lol but i sure if you had cable running to both boxs and both set to usal they would both work on h v ?? Im sure only one cable will work the usal on the dish and other cant so whatever sat the first box is on then the other box will work. But pease correct me if i wrong :p

Jason
 
Your set up is different as it is fixed if being used for freesat and a spiderbox.

yeas i know that lol

But same for any sat then so one box control usal and then other box would need to be on that sat for it to work?
 
Tbh I am not 100% sure what he is trying to do lol

lmfao i read it 10 times to understand but thought your reply was right if it was using 1 feed from lnb but as its 2 feeds then it shouldnt matter.

As i said im no expect lol but i would try sticking both on usal and then try sending one box to a sat then viewing the other box on the same sat, i just dont think both boxs can control the usal !!

Lets us know dan lol

Jason
 
Only one box can control the motor so the other box will obviously only receive what ever channels the dish is pointing at,

but i'm not sure what the correct tuner config would be for the second box,probably not usals though lol
 
Only one box can control the motor so the other box will obviously only receive what ever channels the dish is pointing at,

but i'm not sure what the correct tuner config would be for the second box,probably not usals though lol

I would try usal first and if it didnt work then lnb to all sats lol

Im temped to get the old dm800 out and try it rotlfmao
 
well here is wwhat i had too do , and the reason is his main box is not hd and now he has a hd tv he wanted to have hd .
so i tune the first box into whichever satelite he wants , then put that box in standby , turn on the second hd box , done a full scan of that satelite and repeated for all satelites he wanted , bit of a pain but now he can watch hd pictures including sports on the new tv.
the second box does not control the motor .
all sorted and easier than i thought .
thanks all
 
So manic01 was right but what way did you set the tuner on the second box?
 
well here is wwhat i had too do , and the reason is his main box is not hd and now he has a hd tv he wanted to have hd .
so i tune the first box into whichever satelite he wants , then put that box in standby , turn on the second hd box , done a full scan of that satelite and repeated for all satelites he wanted , bit of a pain but now he can watch hd pictures including sports on the new tv.
the second box does not control the motor .
all sorted and easier than i thought .
thanks all

im more confused now lol

so are you saving that you wanted two boxs connect so you could setup the new hdtv? or need two connected at the same time??
 
right for those lacking a bit of common sense :banana:

box A was a stand definition reciver and was set up on usals working fine .
box B is a hd definition box .

he has just got a new hd tv . and wants to obviously watch hd channels

so he moves the sat dish with box A then puts that in standby and uses box B to watch the hd content through.

sorry for any confusion


and box B is on usals also but wont move the dish for whatever reason , anyway it is all sorted and he is a happy chappy .. and so am i cause i dont need to piss around anymore.

also he cannot just use box B on its own as it wont clear his tring or jsc sports cards although it will clear his cyfra card .
 
right for those lacking a bit of common sense :banana:

We have more common sense then you think,after all we already knew only one box could move the motor :banana:
Reason being there is only one feed going to the motor,and guess which box that feeds ;)

Glad you got it sorted though m8 :)
 
also he cannot just use box B on its own as it wont clear his tring or jsc sports cards although it will clear his cyfra card .

Most likely a f/w issue unless your using 2 different lines? This thread raised a smile, only thing you need remember now is you can only watch 1 sat at a time! Glad you sorted it.
 
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