Cox contour 2 client box not working
I had to unplug my large contour box to put in a new media cabinet. When I restarted it, my smaller "client box" in another room, stopped working. It kept telling me to tighten the connections and ...
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Since you only listen to "Music Choice", you should swap out your Contour 2 box for a mini-box and save yourself some money. But before you do that, ask Cox if you can have your Contour 2 box be setup to host a mini-box, just to see what they say.
Should I do this via chat bot?
I think calling customer support would be best. You should probably talk to an actual person. Or, you could contact Cox at cox.help@cox.com and ask them about setting up that mini-box as a client. Let us know how that works out.
I said a mini-box is a stand-alone box and a mini-box can't be a client. (It would be illogical for a single cable box to be both). But I didn't say the reason a mini-box can't be a client is because it's a stand-alone box. A mini-box can't be a client because it doesn't have the capability to communicate with another cable box (Contour). That's the same reason a mini-box is always stand-alone.
Here's what Cox had to say.
Me: Can a mini-box be setup as a client to a Contour host? With your permission, I'd like to post your reply in the TV Forum.
Cox: "What we refer to as a minibox https://www.cox.com/residential/tv/learn/cox-tv-overview.html is a low-cost cable box allowing customers to receive standard Cox tv service with a simple guide. These boxes are not capable of 2-way communications. They are only able to receive signals from us they cannot send info back or communicate with our contour boxes. This prevents them from accessing on-demand content and some premium services and channels that are on contour boxes. Your welcome to share any of this information".
