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Originally Posted by elgemcdlf
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Try this: Move the dish to a sat and save in receiver 1. Now hook up receiver 2 and just save the position again for the same sat, do not move anything. Same for receiver 3. Repeat for all the sats you wish to keep.
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This MAY work, but also this MAY be what he already did, which didn't work. Ie since the satellites are saved in the motor, not the receiver, it doesn't help to hook up the 2nd receiver and save again unless you are careful to make sure that the 2 receivers are set to the same satellite number, and if the second receiver has a different sat # on the screen, you'll be saving that sat in a different position, and will then be over writing some sat position already saved by the first receiver. Ie it isn't necessary or recommended to even have the 2nd receiver hooked up when you save on it, because all you want to save is the satellite number. And if you can change these satellite numbers via a computer channel editor, it can all be done quickly, and the channel editor can also help you reclaim some of those pre-defined sat positions that can't be used otherwise.
What I'm thinking is that even though the "order" is the same on the 2 receivers that the sats may have different numbers. Ie on one receiver the sats might be 27 thru 49 , and on the 2nd receiver they might be 26 thru 48 or something like that. Let's say on the first receiver, you try to save AMC6 , SBS6, AMC5, and AMC3, and they are set to #27, 28, 29, and 30,, etc. Then you go to 2nd receiver and start to save the same satellites, but you start out on #26, 27, 28 and 29. What will happen is that the 2nd receiver overwrites position 27 with the position for SBS6, and overwrites the position # 28 with the position for AMC5, and position #29 with the position of AMC3, etc, so when you go back to receiver #1, and tell it to go to say AMC5, it tells the motor to go to #29, but 29 is now the position for AMC3, since it was overwritten by receiver #2.
What I would do, is whichever receiver is connected now, and working, go to the setup for each sat, and check to see what DISEQC1.2 sat position number is used for each satellite, and write that down. THen, go to the 2nd receiver, and don't connect it to the coax, but instead just go into the sat setup page, and check to see what DiseqC 1.2 sat position is stored there, and if it is different, change it to be equal to what was used in the first receiver.
Basically each receiver has a list of what sat position number is what sat, and all it does is send a go to sat position #29 or whatever is defined for that sat, so as long as the sats have the same sat number defined, there should be no problem. If it doesn't work, it means that the sat/position list in the 2 receivers must be different.