SageTV on laptop systems?

[bmhayes]

Hello

I'm new to the group and have been looking into using SageTV but I would like to install on a laptop.
Anyone doing this?
I was thinking of using the ConvertX as the video solution.
Any suggestions?

Thanks,

[Hud65]

Don't know if this will help you at all or not but this is what I have set up so far.

I'm currently running the SageTV Client on my laptop and it works pretty good. Laptop is Inspiron 8100, 1 g PIII, 512 ram, only 32 MB on the video but it looks alright from across the kitchen. I'm using a D-Link wireless dual A/G for the networking, great speeds, no dropped connections. The PVR-150 MCE is in my server, I need a couple more tuner cards, heh.

[salsbst]

We use SageTVClient on our laptop for the bedroom. I'm not familiar with ConvertX, but there's also the Hauppauge PVR 250-USB2.

[idvsego]

I am running sace client on a 750mghz p3. the usb stuff shouldn't hurt it too much.

[korben_dallas]

I was curious about this myself. I would take my laptop home, hook up the USB ConvertX, shows would get recorded in the evening and overnight, then take the laptop to work and watch a show during lunchtime. I wonder how SageTV would handle frequent disconnect of the USB capture/tuner and no internet?

[Menehune]

No internet would be no problem seeing as I use a modem at home, but if the encoders disappear, they are removed from the properties file and will no longer appear in the tuners list.
I think you would continually need to re-enable the USB tuners when they are reconnected.

A better solution may be to use an external viewer to watch the files recorded by sage. I like BSPlayer, although Media player could also be used.

[korben_dallas]

Anyone using a laptop as a SageTV server with version 4?