1 edit | [TWC] A few WH-DVR technical questions I've read that WH requires some sort of filters on the lines. Is it possible to simply stick one of these filters upstream of whatever splitter serves the various boxes, rather than having a filter at every jack? I wired my own house with RG6Q (and good snap-lock connectors), and I have an 8 port 2-way distribution amp tying together all of the jacks. Unused lines are left unhooked from the amp with a proper terminator over that port on the amp.
I'm considering WH, but I don't want to have to screw with extra crud hanging off of my wall jacks. If I can simply stick a single filter on the line inbound to the amp, that would be good. What protocol / frequencies are the boxes using for WH comms, is it MOCA or something else?
Will the boxes do whole-home functionality over Ethernet if I connect them via cat5e and the MoCA doesn't work for any reason? I have C5e drops homerun to a 24p gigabit switch, and my DirecTV whole-home is actually running on Ethernet rather than using their coax-based setup (DECA).
Secondly, a less technical question - is it possible to remote-delete recordings? I don't necessarily care if I can't remote-delete from a view-only (non-DVR box), but our watching habits require that I have 4 tuners available so I need 2 DVRs. I have 3 main TVs, bedroom, LR, and theater. I don't watch a lot of TV in the theater, but I usually put a DVR there just so I can if I want. I don't want to have to go turn on all of the theater gear just to delete old recordings from that DVR. (The bedroom gets a non-DVR because they are silent.)
I'm currently on DirecTV and their whole-home setup does allow me to delete remote shows; if I have to go down to the other TV to manage recordings with TW that is going to be a major point of contention and may cause us to (unfortunately) stay with DTV. [I'm sick of losing signal in snow and rain.]
I saw a few early reviews of whole-home that implied you couldn't delete from "guest" boxes, which is why I'm asking. |
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Glendale, CA | Re: [TWC] A couple of WH-DVR technical questions WH uses the MoCA frequencies in the 1000-1150 range. You are correct in that you can use a single filter at input before any splits. You'd also want to put one on each CPE as well (modem, mta, non WH set tops). You may want to double check your amp as it may not pass the moca frequencies. |
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1 edit | Thank you clueless, you obviously aren't what your handle implies. 
From the reading I've done, as long as the loss between outputs on the amp in the MoCA range is less than 50 dB or so, I should be OK. Given that I only have 3 items in service currently, if I have to skip the amp entirely and just use a splitter I will do that. (In the past I would have other outlets active with dumb TVs picking up analog-only feeds.)
The amp I have is an Antronix FRA8-0400, it's only specified to 1000 MHz and I can't find any spec on the loss between ports, so I will probably just have to try and see what happens. 
Anyone have input on the whole-home deletion stuff? Searches that I have done implied that you could only delete from the DVR that recorded. I would be OK if I could delete from any DVR, although deletion from view-only boxes would be nice as well. |
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| As long as your DVR is running ODN 4.1.0_6 or above you can delete recorded content off of any digital terminal in your DVR network. |
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| Excellent, thanks Steve.
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[or it would be if I weren't sitting at a computer right now ] |
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