DISH Wally® Over-The-Air Tuner

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1. Easy to Use, Works as Advertised

   Posted by Trey G. on Sep 13th 2021

   I'm using two of these on the road with a pair of Wallys. Couldn't be easier. Simply plug in when plugging everything else in (and before powering everything up). The Wally sees the device automatically, which is nice... you don't have to "tell" it it's there. In Settings, hit OTA Channels, let it do it's scan for the local channels, add the ones to the guide you want, and enjoy.
   
   Obviously, how well it works is going to depend on the quality of the antenna you have and environmental factors that affect any OTA channel capture, but the device itself does the job if it's set up to succeed.
   
   I absolutely love knowing I'll always have locals in hi-def anywhere I go and that it's seamlessly integrated into the guide. One neat thing... if you do customized guides with favorite channels, it'll automatically bring in a new affiliate if it was already in the custom guide. For example, if you put the CBS affiliate in your guide and then travel somewhere else, it'll recognize you previously had CBS in your guide and swap over the local CBS affiliate, even though it may be a different channel number. Quite handy.

2. Works pretty well

   Posted by R. Reed on Jul 25th 2020

   A little frustrating at times. You select a channel, and it shows a green bar with 100 over it, but says "signal week trying to tune." If you don't do anything it can't find it! But if you do channel up, then channel down it tunes right in?? Other than that it works great! That's the only reason for 4 stars!

3. Great Solution for Local Channels

   Posted by Sam on Sep 17th 2019

   I bought this because of the CBS blackout and so far it's working great! The installation is very simple, just connect the usb cable to the hopper and the antenna to the OTA adapter. After that you just have to run a channel scan.
   
   The nice thing about this is the local channels will integrate into the existing programming guide with the rest of the Dish network channels.
   

4. OTA DISH tuner

   Posted by TJM on May 2nd 2018

   I have one on our Hopper #3, works great and provides an additional tuner option for OTA channels. Recently replaced a 211K that had a built-in OTA tuner with a Wally so I added this OTA to it. Works great!

5. Great product

   Posted by Unknown on Nov 15th 2017

   Super easy to use, works great!

6. Caused Hopper 3 to crash repeatedly

   Posted by Unknown on May 7th 2017

   DishForMyRV customer service says this tuner only works with the Wally, but every other seller says it (same SKU) works with the Hopper as well. My Hopper recognized the tuner, and it seemed to work for a while. But frequently, it would report it lost the signal, and the only way to get it working again was to restart the DVR. When I was checking out the OTA tuner settings, the Hopper would almost always crash and reboot.
   
   I realize giving this item two stars is a bit unfair since DishForMyRV clearly describes it as being for the Wally, but my review is for others who may assume it works with the Hopper. For use with the Hopper, I wouldn't recommend the tuner at this time. Perhaps a future software update will eliminate the problems.

7. CBS local channel not being aired because of a disbute

   Posted by Unknown on Apr 10th 2017

   Since, CBS and Dish are having a dispute I was unable to record CBS station. I was able to see CBS channels using my Over The Air Antenna OK but I was going to have to be home to watch it. So, I look for a solution and found this Tuner so I could hook up my OTA Antenna right up to Hopper3 receiver. I followed the instruction from Dish Network on how to set it up and low and behold I can not only watch the channels using my hopper but I can see 8 days of programming and best of all I can record my CBS programs. So, CBS and Dish I now don't care if you ever resolve your dispute.