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Calpop45 · 10-03-2018, 09:12 PM

Our 2nd Dish VIP722k in 9 months is about to fail. Dish doesn’t retail it any more, but will replace it with a refurb unit, which I suspect will again fail in an unreasonably short time, since it’s in our ‘18 DSDP which is a hostile environment.
I’m looking to update the system, but get completely confused by “Hoppers”, “Joeys”, and “Wallys”. We want at least a two tuner dvr with hdmi out to the bedroom tv, and the capability of integrating OTA signal into it. We only watch one tv so I don’t think we need a joey since we have an hdmi cable back to the bed tv.
Anyone accomplished this update?

Solask · 10-03-2018, 09:31 PM

Just get the Hopper...I believe it’s 3 tuners.. You only need a Joey if you’re going to be using 2 TVs on different channels

BBelanger · 10-03-2018, 09:36 PM

As far as I know, the only option for an RV is the Wally. It has one tuner so you will need one for each TV. They cost $7.00 per month. You can add a hard drive from Dish ($100) and record programs. Depending on which antenna you have, you might only be able to get the channels (Satellite) that your main TV is tuned to. No hopper, no 2 tuner boxes.

Just call Dish Outdoor and they will explain it all to you.
tel:1-800-970-9021

FatChance · 10-04-2018, 09:30 AM

You can use two Wallys only if your dome has two coax outputs and then they both have to be locked on the same satellite.

Wallys only cost $7/month if you have Dish at home.

You can buy the same hard drive to use for a DVR from Walmart for much less than Dish charges and then pay the $40 one time fee to Dish.

The Wally has a RF remote that is much superior to the IR remote in your old receiver.

Plus, the Wally runs much cooler than your old receiver.

Just get the Wally.

Solask · 10-04-2018, 09:33 AM

You can put anything to want in your RV. It’s just that I believe Dish would not recommend a DVR type receiver because they believe RVs are too hard on the disk drives. That’s why they suggest the non DVR units, VP211, Wally, and support a customer owned external HD.

Bucky573 · 10-04-2018, 09:33 AM

What satellite dish do you have? That will factor heavily on what you can do.
If you have a Trav’lr you can go with a Hopper w/ Sling. You can add Joey’s later if you ever decide.
The Hopper 3 would require a modification to your dish LNB.

BigDogSolo · 10-04-2018, 07:23 PM

My 5 year old 211K Dish Receiver just died Tuesday. I replaced it this evening with a Wally. In my 16 Dutch Star configuration for the equipment, the Wally is almost half the size of the 211k. I like that part a lot and it has a lot of upgraded features for accessing other things like Apps, Netflix etc.
It was $69.00

cenfl · 10-05-2018, 07:32 AM

I currently have a Trav'lr SK-1000 dish with a ViP722k HD DVR receiver. The dish connects to the receiver via a single coax cable to a "diplexer"(?), which splits the input signal to the two tuners.

The receiver HDMI output is wired directly to the main TV with a (user installed) HDMI cable. The other three TVs receive SD via coax from the Quest box.

Can anyone (simply) explain how the input/output connections would work with a Hopper and/or Wally?