Taking PVR decoder with on holiday

[The_Ogre]

I'm going to visit my parents for a week or so. They have a single view decoder (so single LNB), but my dad had it suspended a few months back.

Now my old man loves his nature and animal programs.

If I take my PVR with I take it there won't be any issues? FF and RWD should still work properly if the buffer for the current channel is long enough, right? I know that he won't be able to record from one channel while watching another, actually thinking about that, doesn't that also depend on vertical and horizontal/

I also want to record some stuff for him from now up until the day I leave to go to them.

Ta for the help!

 

[Smurfatefrog]

If you have a HDPVR 2P then that should be ok, you can also get a simple splitter & couple short cables to have most functionality incl some recording
Last time I tested the 4 tuners did not boot up properly without at least tuner 1 & 4 connected, might have changed with later software

 

[Speedster]

I'm going to visit my parents for a week or so. They have a single view decoder (so single LNB), but my dad had it suspended a few months back.

Now my old man loves his nature and animal programs.

If I take my PVR with I take it there won't be any issues? FF and RWD should still work properly if the buffer for the current channel is long enough, right? I know that he won't be able to record from one channel while watching another, actually thinking about that, doesn't that also depend on vertical and horizontal/

I also want to record some stuff for him from now up until the day I leave to go to them.

Ta for the help!

I've done this a couple of times without too many issues. If you can take along a 2-way splitter (as Smurfatefrog suggested above) that'll help a bit too. Connect it to tuner 1 and 4.

You are also able to watch previously recorded content on the PVR without any LNB connection.