Multi-switch for Directv receivers

Thank  you for the help.

The dish is an 18 x 20 LNB SWM3

receivers are

HR24-20

HR20-700

H20-100

D10-300

The D10 will be obsolete when DTV finishes shutting down the MPEG2 channels.

You are only using 6 tuners and a standard SWM LNB can handle 8 tuners and the newest has 13 tuners so there is no need to use a Zinwell 6x16 as a SWM8 module will work also.

@mwhelan 

With 2 DVRs and 2 not, you have 6 tuners total.

However, that D10 is very obsolete. DirecTV has been doing a complete shutdown of their MPEG-2/SD-only feeds. Plus that box is not compatible with SWM (D12 was the only SD non-DVR that could work on SWM).

You will need to call DirecTV for their complimentary MPEG swap. The most direct swap would be an H25, but they have been providing their recent Genies (HR44 or HR54) in the swap program. It should result in replacing the H20 (not compatible with a Genie setup unlike all other H/HR models) with a Mini Genie Client to be compatible as well. Check the order confirmation to verify all is as expected (no cost or service agreement). This will include any new cabling, dish, or multiswitch as needed in the home.

So you should end up with Genie (5 tuners, 1TB hard drive), Mini Genie Client (takes a tuner from Genie), HR24 (2 tuners), and HR20 (2 tuners) for a total of 9 tuners that the tech will make sure your setup supports.

As a note if that HR20 ever goes out, just call DirecTV for a warranty replacement. You would get an HR24 (only regular HDDVR left in stock), which has the larger hard drive (Starting with HR22 they increased from 320GB to 500GB).

You may split the signal coming from a legacy dish (4-6 cables) as many times as needed before the multiswitch. The splitters used must pass power through all ports for this to work. The signal cannot, however, be split after the 6x8 multiswitch because tuners on a legacy system cannot be split. We typically only do this when setting up multiple multi-switches or swim modules off one dish for an apartment, example of one of these I built below. These are 2 swim30 modules fed by dual power passing splitters used on one dish at the end of a small apartment building.

Thank you.