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Taking Genie System to my second home
I have been taking a HD DVR to my second home and connecting to a Direct TV dish I have mounted there and everything has been working fine. I change my service address to my second home and then can view the local channels available in that area. I switch it back upon returning to my primary residence and everything works fine. My question is, I am building a new home and wonder if I can take my Genie system, Genie, Video Bridge and Mini Genies with me from my primary residence and enjoy the same kind of performance options in my new second home. I really don't want two accounts, to the tune of $2500 a year plus, and second, I don't want to hard wire the signal to the various rooms in the new house I may want tv. The Genie would save me from hard wiring. Do you see any problems with this? It would be nice if ATT would let me get another Genie system for the second home so I didn't have to do all that connecting and disconnecting. Is that an option?
litzdog911
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5 years ago
You can only have one Genie DVR per account.
What Genie equipment model numbers do you currently have?
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zzonner
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5 years ago
HR44/200 Genie with 4 C41W Mini's.
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litzdog911
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5 years ago
Sure, those can work at your new home.
You can take advantage of DirecTV's Mover's Program and they'll install a new dish at your new home when it's ready. But you can't add more Genie DVRs to your existing account.
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zzonner
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5 years ago
I have the dish and can install it myself. Is there a max limit on Mini's? By saying I can't add more Genie DVR's do you mean the main unit or Mini's?
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litzdog911
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5 years ago
The HR44 supports up to 3 Mini Clients.
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Juniper
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5 years ago
Only 1 Genie per account.
Genie can only support up to 3 Clients (Mini Genie or RV, regardless of model, regardless if wired or wireless) at one time.
Genie can pair with up to 8 Clients (annoying to pair more than you can use).
Genie does support other HDDVR (i.e. HR24) or HD non-DVR (i.e. H25) on the account. No difference in monthly cost from a Client, but you get more capability.
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