I have a freestanding guest house net to the main house (where my primary hookup will be).  It's about 120 ft from the main.  If I were to connect the two with cable, the run would be 150 to 200ft.  I have ordered the Whole Home DVR and additional HD receivers.  Will a hookup from the main system su

I’d like to add a smart tv to my guest room. Is it easy to do and what is cost

When my nephew stays over he stays in the guest bedroom which has a uverse box but has an old big box dumb tv. I have a large movie collection which I want him to have access to but I'm not sure how to get them to play on his tv.  1.Does Uverse have any sort of LAN sharing I could use?2. Without a s

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

I am having a new house built, and want to have cable run through out, I can have the electrician install it, but he wants $80.00 times 6 = $480.00 seems high to me. All I need is tv and internet, what is the best way to go now, does AT&T run wire to the house and I run inside the house, do they

If i were to purchase a HR 24 could I use my current HR20/700 and H20 HD receivers as satellite receivers or would I need to purchase new receivers to get all the benefits of the whole house system?

Can the dish be installed on the side of the house or does it have to be on the roof?

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?

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??

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

I am considering going whole house (and Directv has made an offer), but after reading some of the posts in this forum (and the high level of expertise in the answers) I would appreciate input so I am better able to "work" with the installers.I use Directv in both my primary residence and my vacation