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Hardware Support Discussions related to using various hardware setups with SageTV products. Anything relating to capture cards, remotes, infrared receivers/transmitters, system compatibility or other hardware related problems or suggestions should be posted here. |
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Ok Folks, need some input please.
I just moved into a new house and need some help figuring-out what to do with all my tv's and MCE's. So, I'm going to have 4 pc's with some version of SageTV in different rooms of the house, one in my bedroom, one in my livingroom, one in kitchen, and the last in my rec room. The question is since I have Directv, what should I do? Should I have a main server with multiple DTV receivers hooked to it? and if so, how should it be done or should I have a receiver with every client and just have a server to store the large video files? Thanks in Advance, Tony Last edited by blustrk; 10-26-2005 at 03:49 PM. |
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One server with all the STBs/receivers is ideal from a networking and management standpoint.
Someone who uses DirecTV may be able to help you get set up to manage multiple receivers' channel changes. I know that controlling multiple STBs is possible with a USB-UIRT, but have not dealt with it myself. |
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So how would I control multiple STB's with one computer if the STB's use two sat. inputs per STB like my Directivo's? Would my sagetv know which tuner to use, and which are in use?
Also, How would sagetv know which S-video(either on my MCE-500 or my GPU) goes with each STB and then, which tuner of the STB? |
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Can you tell the scheduling software to record certain shows with a certain STB so I could have one HD STB, and the other standard?
Also, Can it control both inputs at the same time if I used my Directivo? Thanks a million guys! |
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Cool, does sage v2 or v3 support HD from a directv HD receiver? |
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Also, someone over at greenbutton created what would seem to be a directshow driver for the r5000-hd to run under MCE, so it may even be possible to get that to work with SageTV - though I don't think anyone has tried it yet. Either way, it's not a cheap venture. Last edited by dbfresh23; 10-27-2005 at 07:18 PM. |
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Well to control it w/ the 169time mod you would need to use uirt since none of their supported models have a serial port. With the R500-HD, the guys over at greenbutton are controlling it via the usb2 connection.
Neither company is doing the new MPEG4 DTV receivers yet though. Also this would be the only reasonable option right now as there are no consumer grade component / dvi input methods. |
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If you have an SD model w/ a serial port you should be able to control it. I am using 2 of them with PVR150s and it works fine. You just need to either buy or make the custom cable.
Sorry - misread that... I don't think I've seen any HD models with a serial port, so I'm pretty sure that you would need to use uirt. Basically, if you can find an HD receiver w/ serial, it would *probably* work. http://www.dtvcontrol.com/page.aspx?content=compat Last edited by dbfresh23; 10-27-2005 at 07:58 PM. |
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Yep, that looks like it'd do it - just gotta make sure that you get the correct gender. The 2 that I have both needed female cable ends.
I stupidly didn't pay attention to that and got the wrong one, so i would up paying for it - at radio shack that is... $8 per gender changer! |
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Actually it looks like they have 3 HD receivers listed and the only one that they list as working is the Sony SAT-HD100.
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Sweet, now the next question...how to get HD from the STB to the pc, how bout one of these... http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/v...a_adapter.html http://www.digitalconnection.com/Support/cn_myhd9.asp Last edited by blustrk; 10-27-2005 at 08:47 PM. |
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no and no
first thing is just to convert a video signal to vga second thing is for OTA reception. Speaking of which, if you are mostly looking for the locals then you may find that currently your best bet could be going OTA for HD. |
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If you are looking for HDTV from DTV through SageTV - then currently those two mods are the only possibilities. If you consider OTA then you can get an antenna and an internal PCI card to capture the HD OTA signal - so long as they are available in your area.
The 169time mod uses Firewire to get the signal onto the pc and the R5000-HD mod uses USB2. From there you would just need an decent video card that can do HD and has the outputs that you need to connect it to the tv. |
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