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My receiver automatically changes channels, adjusts volume, and more or less whatever it feels like doing...even with batteries removed from the controls. Any ideas? This makes watching television impossible, and occasionally makes me cuss loudly.

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Wiring a new house

I am going to run my own wire to my dish on my new house due to it still being w/out sheetrock. Are there any specifice besides a ground wire that I need to know? Should I run dual cable or just a single??

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Adding receiver to a vaction house

is it possible to add a receiver to an existing account for a vacation house that has DTV set up (dish and cables are set up-previous owners had it) just no receiver?

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remodel house

We did a remodel of our house and moved into the garage during construction. we had the dish and router moved to the garage.we are now ready to move back into the house and need the router moved back into the house  but want to keep the dish on the garage and keep the tv in the garage hooked up.how

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Whole House DVR

I had an installer out at the house today to swap out both of my receivers , he installed (2) HR24/100 HD/DVR receivers...I still cannot get my whole house DVR service to work.  The Status says authorized, No networked DVRs found...any ideas

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building new house

I'm building a new house and want to be able to take advantage of the new whole house DVR and have the wires to all TV's in place before the sheetrock for a hidden installation.  Will I need coax between all of the receivers or just home runs to the DVR location?  Just one wire to each location?  Ca

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whole house HD DVR

I have 3 HR22 HD DVRs and would like to do the whole house HD DVR. I have a gigabit network installed. Is all I have to do it have Direct activate the Whole House system from their end to make it work? Thanks Robert

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New house SWM not detecded

I move to a differnet house my old house had the muliswitch setup slimline dish everything worked great. In the new house they have the SWM setup I have tried setting my reciver HR20 to swith type SWM and it says SWM not detected I have looked at all the wirinng it appears everything is fine so what

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Install/Genie questions at a new house

We are under contract on a new house and are looking to have Directv installed. I have a few questions: 1) I'm going to book the install appt for the day after closing (also getting AT&T internet). We'll have 1 of the TVs there on install day, but movers will bring the other TV later, and I

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Haunted ? DVR recording unwanted show

My DVR is insisting on recording Kitchen Nightmares. I have never asked it to do so. It has been set in the past to record shows in that time slot (Fringe, then Past Life). When I try to cancel the recording, it will for a second, then the record icon comes right back. I don't know if this has any b

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What makes a supported whole house dvr network?

Is there special equipment that is required and only available from a directv service tech to make a whole house DVR supported by directv?  I have converted my system to a swm system and have a DECA hooked up to my router for on demand access.  Everything is working perfect.  I would like to finish

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Need A Tech to come to house

Please let me know how I can book an appointment to have someone come to my house to help? I need an actual person!  Thank you.

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Whole House Primer?

Hi  All,Does a "Whole House Primer" exist?I would like a pretty deep understanding of the technology (up to a point) before I pursue.BTW - By deep I am looking to understand what wiring is required, what boxes are required (IE will me current box work?) and a bit more of all of the capablities.Reaso

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Whole house DVR

I just activated my Whole house dvr today, I did it online.Both receivers show activated but  I get no network dvr found. I have a H21 HD receiver and a HR24 HDVR. My system was installed a few months ago so it is SWM system. What other hardware do I need?

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Adding a new receiver to my house

I would like some guideness regarding adding an additional receiver to my house. I have 4 lines going to 4 different receives around the house (I  don't have HD or DVR in any of the rooms) from the Satellite Dish. How can I add an additional receiver to my setup ( I read about using a splitter but I

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whole house dvr

I cannot get my second tv to pause live tv or rewind..things like that.I have whole house dvr.I saw something called trickplay but it doesnt tell how to do it.

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Whole House DVR setup

Ok, this is the situation. I wired my whole House (As Dtv's installers suck) myself. My setup to date is as follows:1-HR20-100 HD DVR Box (Wired with Dtv's wireless Internet Rx/Tx...soon to be hard wired to my router)4-HD21-200 HD Boxes1-D11-100  Standard Def BoxI have a 5 LNB Slimline dish and an 8

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Directv in pool house

I am building a pool house that is about 75 feet or so from where the main Directv box is. The pool house will have WiFi not not sure how good the strength will be. We have Hughes-net for our internet provider. What are my options to get Directv to work in the pool house. There will be 1 smart TV in

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Whole House Access Receiver

My whole house access receiver (I only have one in my bedroom) shows that it is on but I am not receiving a picture.  The remote does not work either.  I have tried to reset by unplugging but no success.  Any suggestions?

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error 79 on whole house

Our whole house system has never worked correctly.  We have a hr24 and a hr22.  Many tech calls but the swm signal strength has zeros which vary in number of zero readings.  The techs have changed out the hr24 the black box the swm switch.  Any ideas as what to do next? The program from other receiv

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