Can I change channels using multi tuner setup without EPG

[milanp]

Recently I discovered SAGE TV.
I downloaded the trial for the server and client.
I live in a country where EPG is no available.
I have a server with 1 x PVR 250 + 1 x PVR 350 tuners.
When using tv from both client and server I cannot goto next/previous channel.
If I watch TV from one of the tuners I can change channels as I wish.
If I go to Live TV Guide,I see the channels listed twice (for each of the tuners) and I can watch them with perfect picture if I manually select the channel from each of the tuners.
From what I read sage should automatically tune to the free tuner.
This configuration works almost perfect with Beyond TV and Link, but I don't
like the picture quality of Beyond TV.
Is this configuration without EPG supposed to work ?
I even tried with 2 x PVR250 but I got the same results.
In single user mode everything works perfect.
I have only one more trial week to fix this and buy Sage .
Otherwise I should reinstall the whole system from scratch.

[nielm]

Sage really works best with an EPG...
I even think that without an epg, Sage will think that channel 1 on tuner 1 is different to channel 1 on tuner 2...

If you really have no EPG (not even with XMLTV) your best bet would probably be to create an XMLTV file manually just to define the channels in your lineup,
That way you can configure the 2 tuners with the same lineup giving you 'named' channels, and Sage should then know that channel 1 can be seen on tuner 1 and tuner 2.

With this, you will only see each channel in the guide once, and Sage will use the 'free' tuner to tune the system

(I use the following xmltv file to define channels for which I cannot get or do not want EPG data... 2 caveats: keep the channel ID unique, and if you define the channel number, it has to be the first purely numeric <display-name> tag.)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE tv SYSTEM "xmltv.dtd">
<tv generator-info-name="hand crafted by nielm">
  <channel id="TVBru">
    <display-name>1</display-name>
    <display-name>TVBru</display-name>
  </channel>
  <channel id="MCM">
    <display-name>2</display-name>
    <display-name>MCM</display-name>
  </channel>
  <channel id="MTV">
    <display-name>3</display-name>
    <display-name>MTV</display-name>
  </channel>
  <channel id="VH1">
    <display-name>4</display-name>
    <display-name>VH1</display-name>
  </channel>
</tv>