Help me understand sat & TV wiring on 2017 FC

[dasams]

I just bought a Tailgater and am trying to understand the wiring so that I can make a clean installation. I have a 2017 FC rear bed 25'.

1. The outside port has connections for Cable and Sat. As I understand it, the Cable connection toggles with the roof antenna using the push button on the white plate on the interior wall. Anything else I should now about the Cable connection?

2. From reading this forum, I've opened up the cabinet holding the Blue-Ray and found the loose coax cable. Does this wire run directly from the outside Sat connection? Anything else I should know about the wiring?

3. What's the purpose of the loose USB cable on top of the Blue-Ray cabinet?

4. My wife and I haven't witched a DVD is years and I'm thinking about replacing the Blue-Ray with the Tailgater. This will save room and also makes for a clean installation. Thoughts?

Any other wisdom you can share?

TIA, Dave

[Al and Missy]

1. The outside port has connections for Cable and Sat. As I understand it, the Cable connection toggles with the roof antenna using the push button on the white plate on the interior wall. Anything else I should now about the Cable connection?
You are correct. The only other thing, and you probably know this, is whenever you change from Antenna to Cable or Antenna in one place to Antenna in another, you will have to re-scan all TV's to get the channels from the new source/area.

2. From reading this forum, I've opened up the cabinet holding the Blue-Ray and found the loose coax cable. Does this wire run directly from the outside Sat connection? Anything else I should know about the wiring?
AFAIK from reading on here, that cable runs direct to the satellite input outside.

3. What's the purpose of the loose USB cable on top of the Blue-Ray cabinet?
Sorry, no help here.

4. My wife and I haven't witched a DVD is years and I'm thinking about replacing the Blue-Ray with the Tailgater. This will save room and also makes for a clean installation. Thoughts?
Sounds like a good use of space. But when you can't get a good shot to the satellites due to tree cover, it might be nice to watch DVDs, but if you don't do it, it is a waste of space and power.

Al

[dasams]

Originally Posted by Al and Missy

But when you can't get a good shot to the satellites due to tree cover, it might be nice to watch DVDs, but if you don't do it, it is a waste of space and power.
Al

I'll have recorded programs to watch when satellite is blocked and/or will be able to stream.

I removed the Blue-Ray and the Wally (DISH receiver) was a plug and play swap out as I used the same splitter, connections and the Wally fit perfectly in the cabinet. Very happy with this install

[Motown]

Originally Posted by dasams

3. What's the purpose of the loose USB cable on top of the Blue-Ray cabinet?

The USB connector is for connecting an iPod (or other music player). You can then select it from your sources.

[AStreamNerds]

The loose USB cable runs to an input on the back of the stereo receiver that is installed in the wall. Like Motown said it is for connecting your phone/ipod/thumb drive or something like that to your head unit so you can play music through the speakers inside of the Airstream. You just have to figure out which input it is on - it seems it is different on different years/models of campers.

[dasams]

Originally Posted by AStreamNerds

The loose USB cable runs to an input on the back of the stereo receiver that is installed in the wall.

Good info. Thanks and also to Motown, Dave