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<blockquote data-quote="jeallen01" data-source="post: 991994" data-attributes="member: 176704">Something else to possibly think about - did you set up the Tuners to repeat the diseqc signals in case the first ones sent to the units beyond the switches gets &quot;managled&quot; by the switches? Might help and probably can't do any &quot;harm&quot;.(was recommended to me by the guy at EMP Tech Support, whilst trying to sort out my earlier issues with the BEST switches when located downstream of&nbsp; one of their 4-way uncommitted switches - but it did not work because of BEST switch design faults)Edited: just had another thought/question: is the Miracle 4-1 switch an uncommitted type, because if it is not then it won't transmit the diseqc commands correctly through to the dish&nbsp; and so on?That's exactly the problem I initially had when trying to cascade several BEST switches! After discussion with EMP, the guy recommended a couple of their switches which can be set to different modes, including uncommitted, via dip switches on the cases, and so I bought an S4/1PCT-W2 (see <a href="http://www.emp-centauri.cz/index.php?lang=en&amp;page=prodview&amp;id_kateg=1&amp;id_pkateg=21&amp;id=213" target="_blank">here</a>),&nbsp; and that did work correctly in cascaded mode to the BEST switches (although they still did not work properly).(What made me suspicious of the Magic switch was that there was no mention of &quot;uncommitted&quot;mode, and the price is pretty low and about the same as the BEST switches - by comparison, the S4/1PCT-W2 is more like 30 Euros including shipping direct from EMP!)BTW, my own setup is quite similar to your sketch, except that the 8-1 switch on Tuner B is replaced by a 10-1 Opticum, there is no switch on Tuner A, and one of the ports on the Opticum was/would be (but is not currently) connected to the 2nd half of the Twin on the steerable dish - so solutions that work for you should probably work for me, unless the set-up process for the Vu+ Duo2 is significantly different to that for the Vu+ Solo2 in this area.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jeallen01, post: 991994, member: 176704"] Something else to possibly think about - did you set up the Tuners to repeat the diseqc signals in case the first ones sent to the units beyond the switches gets "managled" by the switches? Might help and probably can't do any "harm". (was recommended to me by the guy at EMP Tech Support, whilst trying to sort out my earlier issues with the BEST switches when located downstream of one of their 4-way uncommitted switches - but it did not work because of BEST switch design faults) Edited: just had another thought/question: is the Miracle 4-1 switch an [U]uncommitted[/U] type, because if it is not then it won't transmit the diseqc commands correctly through to the dish and so on? That's [I]exactly[/I] the problem I initially had when trying to cascade several BEST switches! After discussion with EMP, the guy recommended a couple of their switches which can be set to different modes, including uncommitted, via dip switches on the cases, and so I bought an S4/1PCT-W2 (see [URL='http://www.emp-centauri.cz/index.php?lang=en&page=prodview&id_kateg=1&id_pkateg=21&id=213']here[/URL]), and that did work correctly in cascaded mode to the BEST switches (although they still did not work properly). [I](What made me suspicious of the Magic switch was that there was no mention of "uncommitted"mode, and the price is pretty low and about the same as the BEST switches - by comparison, the S4/1PCT-W2 is more like 30 Euros including shipping direct from EMP!)[/I] BTW, my own setup is quite similar to your sketch, except that the 8-1 switch on Tuner B is replaced by a 10-1 Opticum, there is no switch on Tuner A, and one of the ports on the Opticum was/would be (but is not currently) connected to the 2nd half of the Twin on the steerable dish - so solutions that work for you should probably work for me, unless the set-up process for the Vu+ Duo2 is significantly different to that for the Vu+ Solo2 in this area. [/QUOTE]

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