Hi, I'm just wondering if I'm using this Sling when I'm out of town, will I be interfering with my family's ability to use the Dish at home?
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Short answer- No. It would be as if you were in another room using a Joey to watch different shows.
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The sling device uses tuner 2 on the DVR. The family at home can watch whatever they want on Tuner1, but the TV hooked up to tuner 2 will just show a notice that "this tuner is in use for remote viewing". The people at home can override the remote viewing and disconnect the user who is connected via Sling if they want.
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I have used it when I was away from home but no one was home. It has interrupted my husband watching the TV he was using when I tried to watch something on my tablet. You have to have different TVs, at least two, to watch live TV at the same time.
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You connect your Cable box (no matter what cable/telecom provider), or Tivo, etc. to the sling box. Then you connect your sling box to your home router. You then run thru the setup of the slingbox software from a PC connected to the same home network..and voila! You can now take your laptop anywhere in the world and watch your channels as they appear on your cable system on your laptop..as long as you are connected to the internet. For an additional cost (~$20) you can also pay for the app and watch your TV on any iOS, or Android devices as well. There are ways to get the apps w/o paying, but that's illegal :) The HD quality is really good as I've been watching Knicks playoff games streaming over a 4G connection.
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Yes if the sling is getting signal from the same box. You change sling, sling changes cable box. Someone changes the box channel, you see what they see slung at you.
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If I'm understanding you correctly you're going to be the only one using the transmitter at your home and your sister's. You can think of the different remotes within the app as pages of a book. In your situation the first page could be all your devices at your home and the second page could be of all your sister's devices at her home. If your asking whether the transmitter linked to one device forever, it is not. You can freely pass of the transmitter to your sister and she can use it with the free application on her iPhone/ iPad/ iPod as well. I hope I answered your question!
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Yes, we live in a very windy area and had no issues. We are still having issues with the multiple recordings, but we are waiting for an update. When we reviewed all the other cable/dish companies...Dish is still the best programing, customer service, price and nice to deal with. The update on the hopper issue is coming out in a couple of weeks, so we are hanging in.
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You pay for the content (assuming you pay for cable access) and transport (your broadband connection). There is no violation. But you're right, the access companies are miffed about SlingMedia seeming use the transport for free....they would prefer to do it but haven't figured out the technology to strem directly to multiple devices.
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Should be work's... Slingmedia do no offer officially Slingbox 500 outside north america but at least in Europe (Finland) it work's great. Only thing what you need to do during registeration give some postal code from USA or Canada... I give postal code of Redmont... :-)
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hi, yes, from satellite 101, if you are too far from home probably you will not get local channels. do you have hd receivers? this dish antenna is for only standard definitions channels. it doesnot work model h25 or genies hr34,hr44. thanks
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hi i do have 2 sperate cable boxes, one for the tv, one for the slingbox. however when someon is home an di am away, the remote will chnage both cable boxes. how do i avoid this?
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We have 2 TV's connected to our Winegard Anser and travel in our RV fulltime, so we change locations. At first we received Houston stations since that is our home base. Now we are closer to San Antonio and we called Dish and the entered a different zip code and now we receive the news, weather, etc. from San Antonio. I think there might be a limit due to the Satellites they use. Hope this helps.
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Your best bet is to go online to the Dish website. It works just like regular cable. There are several packages you can choose from. You can get anything you can get at home.
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If you are asking about a moving RV, then I'm sure the signal/reception will not be consistent. We have one we use in both the home & RV, but you have to pace the antenna where it gets the strongest, most consistent reception.
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I doubt this will work, the Dish receiver usually won't let you do anything without active service. That being said, why not just use the tuner built in to your TV? another option would be to buy a stand alone sling box.
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This does work with Dish Anywhere to an extent. You can use it as a "hopper" to watch live TV, your DVR or download movies. I keep this in a camper that I use as an office outside my house and watch TV, run the DVR etc. using the wifi from my house. I can also use it in campgrounds that offer wifi. The one thing I have been unable to do is transfer recordings to it to watch when the device is offline. The device has a partition, I think 2GB, on the onboard memory. The dish anywhere app is stored on that partition and will not allow me to store the downloads on the other 6GB or on the 32GB micro SD I purchased for such. The app only allows me to store the downloads on the same drive as the app and there is not enough space. The android version that the device uses does not allow me to move the app to the SD card which I think would also solve the problem. I do wish that downloads would work but I am very happy with the rest. It is about all that I use it for.
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I have the same concern about my 30-30. Did this sling work for you? Thanks.
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I believe so, if you can stream other video content in that same manner, I don't see why it wouldn't work for content on DishAnywhere.
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I did use this a few times when I was out of state. So yes, you can use it when out of town. Worked just fine.