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Toltec · 12-20-2018, 10:43 AM

Tried posting this in the Technology Forum but didn’t get any replies. Perhaps there’s someone in this forum who can help.

Setting up Directv in my 2014 Canyon Star 3610 using a DTV dish on a tripod. Got the 3 TVs in the front of the coach working fine. But the TV in the bedroom is a puzzle. There are 2 connections on the back wall of the AV cabinet next to the BR TV. One says HDMI. One says satellite. Where is the other end of this satellite connection? I need to connect it to my satellite dish input splitter.

Thanks in adfvance for any help.

Dutch Star Don · 12-20-2018, 11:01 AM

"Toltec"......Have some bad news. When your coach was built, Newmar was in the practice of connecting the front and outside TV's, via HDMI (the HDMI was usually an option) to the front AV cabinet so that one DirecTV receiver would operate all three TV's. For whatever reason, they never connected the bedroom TV to that system, instead, they provided a satellite connection in the bedroom that runs to the roof. If you go on your roof, there is a splitter up there. It's setup so you connect the satellite (on the roof) to the splitter.....from the splitter, one line runs to your front AV cabinet and the other runs to your bedroom.

Apparently, Newmar felt that people wanted to operate two receivers off of the roof satellite. So....you have a couple of options, one, add a second receiver to the bedroom, or use a wireless transmitter to send the HDMI signal to the bedroom. I elected to use a wireless HDMI unit to operate the bedroom TV.

Lastly, on my current coach, which we ordered, I was going to have the rear TV wired into the others as a "special", but for 2019, Newmar finally saw the light and started making it standard.