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mbayshark
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You need to replace that SLX splitter with this.
That splitter is not designed to pass the heartbeat through. No idea why it only happens at night, might be because you use all the tv's at night and not during the day. But I'm sure the correct splitter will solve your problems.
That splitter is not designed to pass the heartbeat through. No idea why it only happens at night, might be because you use all the tv's at night and not during the day. But I'm sure the correct splitter will solve your problems.
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I had the exact same problem. It is caused by electrical interference somewhere along the hearbeat cable. Mine also happened only at night and only in winter.
Turns out it was one section of our outside lights. As soon as the lights timer went on, the comm problems started when tv and HT was on. Switching the primary and secondary decoder didn't help.
To make it more bizarre, it only happened when the outside lights and my home theatre was switched on!! TV only. No issues. Removed that section of lights, boom no problem. I struggled for months and stumbled on the solution by accident. Eventually started to notice a pattern that the problem was gone when manually switching lights of for unrelated reasons every now and then.
Removed those lights about a year ago. Never had problems since.
Not sure why that combination and only in winter but I suspect there is a sensitive interference point and cold nights affecting the performance of the outside lights together with a frequency of just that amount of electricity caused problems. But thats just my own conspiracy theories.
Turns out it was one section of our outside lights. As soon as the lights timer went on, the comm problems started when tv and HT was on. Switching the primary and secondary decoder didn't help.
To make it more bizarre, it only happened when the outside lights and my home theatre was switched on!! TV only. No issues. Removed that section of lights, boom no problem. I struggled for months and stumbled on the solution by accident. Eventually started to notice a pattern that the problem was gone when manually switching lights of for unrelated reasons every now and then.
Removed those lights about a year ago. Never had problems since.
Not sure why that combination and only in winter but I suspect there is a sensitive interference point and cold nights affecting the performance of the outside lights together with a frequency of just that amount of electricity caused problems. But thats just my own conspiracy theories.
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Connect RF out from each decoder into the splitter's two inputs. Make sure the communication port is set to RF OUT in the Extra view setup menu of both decoders, if the option is there (newer decoders don't have this option as they transmit on IN and OUT so you don't have to select one) Make sure the UHF tuning on the two decoders are set on different channels as you will be able to receive both decoder's channels on all the tv's connected through the splitter in this configuration. Retune the tv's if required.