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Antenna channels no longer recognized
All of a sudden my DirecTV no longer recognizes my antenna and I want the channels restored. They were formally under the TV source. How do I get them back? There is no longer an option to check the antenna, just satellite.
Juniper
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23.5K Messages
5 years ago
Like most boxes in the last decade or more, there is no antenna input on the HR44. The only way the antenna can connect to it would be the long discontinued AM21 or Local Channel Connector (LCC, not nationally launched as still in beta). The HR44's only coax input is for DirecTV service itself, not antenna.
With either the AM21 or LCC, that integrates your local channels into the DirecTV guide so you don't change inputs.
If you have had to change inputs on your TV to watch those locals, then your antenna is connected directly to the TV and not the HR44. As DirecTV would be connected to one of your HDMI ports and the antenna would be plugged into the OTA ANT port on the TV which is not HDMI.
Follow the cable from the antenna and see exactly where it leads. Either it will connect to the TV so you change inputs, or it will connect by way of an adapter (AM21 connects by USB) to the HR44 where you don't change inputs.
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detuch254
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5.2K Messages
5 years ago
And the only receiver in the last couple decades to do so was actually the D10, D11, and D12. A couple other brands like Philips, Sony, etc. (receivers made for DTV) had an antenna output named "Off-air in".
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TexasBrit
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5 years ago
You forgot the HR20
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detuch254
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5 years ago
Yes and the H20 and HR20. Those receivers actually had a feature which LITERALLY required no AM21 and could integrate antenna channels as simple as it gets.
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JefferMC
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37.1K Messages
5 years ago
To Recap (and to jump over the esoterica of which receivers provided a feature not in use):
The installer connected an antenna directly to your TV. Your TV has been handling the off-air channels for you all along. DIRECTV has not been. DIRECTV has nothing to do with them, it has been your TV and your antenna.
Something has happened to one or more of:
1) Your Antenna,
2) Your TV, or
3) The cabling between your Antenna and your TV.
Do you know where your Antenna (not dish) was mounted?
Is it still there?
Does it still have a cable running to it?
Did it have an amplifier?
Is the amplified still there?
Does it still have power?
Does that cable still run to the TV?
Is it connected to the TV?
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