Can I do Explora installation myself?

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DeonH

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Hi there.

I am busy doing some homework on Explora. On every deal I see, I also read that it excludes installation. What does installation involve? From what I have read, the dish must be at least 80cm diameter and I will need a new LNB. Our dish is one of the big ones and I have previously changed a LNB. Does installation involve something else?

Deon
 
Its actually very easy. Get the new single cable LNB (Its a quad LNB over single cable)
Pull cable to wherever, plug in. Bobs your uncle.

PS. Get the larger dish if you have the old smaller model
 
PSS: I think the cable is called UniCable or something like that
 
P00HB33R said:
PSS: I think the cable is called UniCable or something like that
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Thank you very much.

We currently have one of the old PVRs with "view two and record one". What do I need to have extra for dual view as I understand the Explora is "view one and record two"?
 
DSTV Explorer intallation woes

OP .. I hope you do not have the hassles I am currently having with the Explorer installation.

I have just bought the Explora, and appointed a local (MC approved :erm:) installer to do the necessary installation. There are only three accredited installers in my klein dorpie, and I just had to pick the worst one :cry: Actually it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that ALL local installers are kuk. Make sure you use what is know as a "Smart LNB"

I had an existing 60cm dish, so I specified a new 80cm dish, plus a "Smart LNB" to replace the old LNB that I had. This Smart LNB is supposedly the correct one to use for the Explora.

But I am currently in a huge dispute with the so-called "Multichoice accredited" installer.

Installers were here for hours laying new cables ... RG6 cables .. (it was my choice not to use the old cabling), and installing the dish (the dish was the THIRD one they brought, as the first two were so fragile the Cape wind would have torn it from the mountings).

At the end of the day, they managed to get just a few channels working, but we still can't record anything, and some channels are not even available to watch live. This is the third day we have been inconvenienced, and they say they will be back tomorrow to complete the installation. I can't even watch the currently playing T20 between SA & India

I have reported their incompetence to MC, and MC have called me, and I have also had a call from the MC Manager in Cape Town (Byron Visagie). They too have kukked out the local accredited installers, so one can only imagine what sort of job they will do once they do arrive tomorrow to sort things out. And I ***** you not .. the installer boss is 6 ft 10 inches in height, so I can hardly be nasty to him.

At my insistence they used RG6 cabling ... that is supposedly the correct type to use.

Update .. a couple of minutes ago the installer (well .. some lady-lackey from his business..) phoned and apologised for the situation they have put me in.

But I still have the Vrou constantly whining in my ear because she can't record "Daze of our Miserable effing Lives" & "Greys Lobotomy"

To top it all, the Leiwater channel that runs along the back of my property is blocked, so I have a waterlogged garden now as well. :erm:
 
atomcrusher said:
But I still have the Vrou constantly whining in my ear because she can't record "Daze of our Miserable effing Lives" & "Greys Lobotomy"

To top it all, the Leiwater channel that runs along the back of my property is blocked, so I have a waterlogged garden now as well. :erm:
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post of the day right there ^^
 
DeonH said:
Thank you very much.

We currently have one of the old PVRs with "view two and record one". What do I need to have extra for dual view as I understand the Explora is "view one and record two"?
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Then you will need the smart LNB that has the dual legacy ports on it aswell. Run the UniCable to the explora, and two legacy cables to any other PVR you have. Call multichoice and ask them to link the old PVR to your explora as a dualview environment. That way you can watch 1 channel on explora and record 2, and watch 2 channels on old PVR and record 1.
 
P00HB33R said:
Then you will need the smart LNB that has the dual legacy ports on it aswell. Run the UniCable to the explora, and two legacy cables to any other PVR you have. Call multichoice and ask them to link the old PVR to your explora as a dualview environment. That way you can watch 1 channel on explora and record 2, and watch 2 channels on old PVR and record 1.
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Thank you very much. Will do so.
 
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