Moving a DishNetwork DVR from one spot to another?

We want to move our TV from the office to the living room, and when we moved the DVR and hooked it all up, it just did a "Looking for satellite signal" screen for like 20 minutes.





Is the DVR supposed to stay in the same place the whole time? Do I have to call DishNetwork to have them move it for me?|||It sounds like you don't realize that just any cable connection on any random wall plate that you screw your DISH receiver to, is very unlikely to be connected to the satellite dish on your roof. That's why you don't have any satellite reception. When you have DISH installed, they don't wire up your whole house to the satellite dish antenna... they wire up only the locations where the DISH receivers are installed.





What you need to do is find the other end of the cable that is connected to the wall-plate that you connected your DISH receiver to, and connect that cable to the satellite dish instead of the one that goes to the room where you are moving the receiver from.|||At the risk of asking a really dumb question, did you relocate your DVR's input cable from the office to the living room? Is is connected to the DVR input exactly like it was before? Alternately, do you have multiple input cables from your LNB, and do you know that the one in your living room is good?





Your answer is in there somewhere. The DVR should work anywhere in the house as long as it has good input.





Followup to your Additional Details: then I would be suspicious of the jack in the living room. Maybe it's not even connected to your LNB--did it ever work on satellite? Maybe it's an old cable TV line. In any case, it would seem that that's your culprit, if everything else is the same.





I'd want to trace the cable (on the other side of your living room jack) back to its source to see how it's connected, and to what.|||once you reconnect the dish cable to the dvr, make sure to run a switch test, if you have mutlible recievers that is. you have to run this test from the setup screen in order for the recieve to be able to change the channels, otherwise it will not be able to "find" satellites.