DirecTV splitter question

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New house and have two HD DirecTV dvr's w/two tuners.

The third unit is a standard two tuner unit. Coming from the wall is one cable and there is a jack for output to the bathroom TV, running as a mirror of the one in the bedroom. Can't watch one and record another program which really sucks.

I had an old splitter sitting around, but the tuner never picked up the secondary source. Could have been a crappy splitter or maybe I am going down the wrong path.

Any ideas?
 
You can't split a satellite signal with a splitter... you need a switch...

A diplexer can unite a cable and satellite signal and then split it, but it can't split one satellite signal into two...

If you call directv, they can send a guy over and "install", which would mean giving you a switch with multiple outs... The new switches don't even use power since they can affect the mp4 signal...
 
I am really not trying to be an idiot, and really appreciate your help.

The switches I see on the site seem to have two inputs. I only have one coming from the wall into this machine. Will I connect it from that one, or do I need to do so from outside?
 
Usually you connect 2 or 4 depending on what kind of dish you have... they both come into the multiswitch and it gives you 2, 4 or 8 outputs depending on which one you get...
 
Again, I feel like a dope. I assume I have a multi-switch at the satellite. I have two other tvs running dual tuners. Just one that's not. I only have one line coming into that room. It would appear by what you aer saying is that I cannot hook up both tuners unless I run another line to that room.
 
So you've got two tuners which each have two cables running into them (so you can watch one thing/record another), and a 3rd tuner with only one cable coming in? Assuming the 3rd tuner has its own independent cable (ie its input isn't just the output from one of your other tuners) then that's 5 cables, which is more than your dish would have coming out of it. This makes it sound like you've got a multiplexer installed already.

Where do the cables that come out of your dish run?

FYI, if you end up needing a 4x8 multiplexer I can sell you my old one...
 
I'm guessing you've got a 2x6 mutliswitch in your attic somewhere with two lines going to the 1st dual-recording tv, the next two lines going to the 2nd dual recording tv, and then for some strange reason only one going to that third tv. I don't believe they make a 2x5, so you want to check the switch and run another line to that third tv to get dual recording capability. If you want a 4th tv in the bathroom then you'll need to buy a 2x8.

I think.
 
You have one cable coming from a simple A/B splitter AFTER the DTV tuner. It only receives the one channel sent out from the tuner.

I have the same set up for a bathroom TV. The signal comes from a cheap A/B swithch inserted between a bedroom TV and its DTV DVD/tuner and it is a "slave". If you want to be able to record two of these "slave" signals, you would need output from another tuner through a similar post-tuner A/B switch.

If you want to control the signal, you need a feed from a cable before the DTV tuner and you can't use a simple A/B switch for that. The signal has too many components at that point. All you need is something like the Terk BMS-58 5x8 that is available in the link provided above and tuners where you have your (tune-less, I assume) DVR.

I have two of the Multiswitches hooked up and that allows me to have up to eight two-tuner DVRs working.
 
I think Hou-Tex is right. I don't care about controlling the bathroom tv, just want to be able to record 2 shows in the bedroom. I just don't want to run another line, although there likely is a free line, I'd guess.

Probalby need to get w/the builder who I bought the house from. It was his home for two years prior to me moving in a month ago. Now w/TV & football season getting here, it is becoming more important.
 
Oh, I think that I get it.

Your bedroom tv has two cables out of the wall, but the prior owner "reversed" one to use as an output from bedroom tv to the slave bathroom tv instead of using it as an input to the second tuner in your bedroom. Does that sound like what you've got?
 
Yep, but trying to figure out if it's possible to record 2 shows w/out running another cable. Doesn't seem like it.
 
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