Winegard Cable: Difference between revisions
Created page with "some winegard dishes have a serial menu that can only be reached by using a custom cable that is very obscure. you will need an rj25 telephone-style plug cable that has 6 wires. (this is uncommon. i forget what phone lines have but it aint this) you then feed 5 of the 6 wires into a rs485 to usb (or rs485 to rs232 to usb) in a non-standard order that is as follows: red, black, yellow, green, white. cut off the blue. come back to this page and clean it up. add the diagra..." |
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Latest revision as of 14:09, 29 September 2025
some winegard dishes have a serial menu that can only be reached by using a custom cable that is very obscure. you will need an rj25 telephone-style plug cable that has 6 wires. (this is uncommon. i forget what phone lines have but it aint this) you then feed 5 of the 6 wires into a rs485 to usb (or rs485 to rs232 to usb) in a non-standard order that is as follows: red, black, yellow, green, white. cut off the blue.
come back to this page and clean it up. add the diagram. make it nice. this was just in case i forget again.