How many tuners can be used?

[Peterod]

Hello all. How many tuners can be installed in a PC that will work with Sage. I have two right (works great) now and would like to add other.

[Steve52]

Originally Posted by Peterod

Hello all. How many tuners can be installed in a PC that will work with Sage. I have two right (works great) now and would like to add other.

No Limit on number of tuners in SageTV.

[malore]

It's just a question of buying tuners that work well with each other. I've had bad luck with using cards from the same manufaturer and both times my tech support request response was that they don't support using more than one card.

[Goodspike]

Originally Posted by Peterod

Hello all. How many tuners can be installed in a PC that will work with Sage. I have two right (works great) now and would like to add other.

Check out the thread on the HD Homerun--a two tuner network device. I was considering adding another tuner, until I heard about that device, then I added it instead to get two!

[aperry]

Originally Posted by Peterod

Hello all. How many tuners can be installed in a PC that will work with Sage. I have two right (works great) now and would like to add other.

I currently have three PVR-500 cards in my system. They are all dual tuner cards giving me a total of 6 tuners. Works without any problems.

[jlabrue]

I also have two PVR 500's and two Vbox 151's with no problems.

[hemicuda]

PVR500, 350, & USB2. had to amp the whole system to get good image on the 500 though. adding HD to the list next year after i get an HD tv

[dfitz43]

Vbox 150, 2x Vbox 151, 2x Hauppauge PVR 150, 1x Vbox USB (3560 or something, I think) running in my Sage server. Rock solid. I will say multiple tuner configs for HD cards has been a pain with other cards, but with the Vbox series, I've had no issues.

cheers,
Dave

[Panzer]

When I first started with sage I used a server with 6x250s and one Adaptec AVC-2200 along with a network encoder with 4x250s, 1x150 and 3xPinnacle PCTV DLX. The only problems were with the PCTVs randomly locking up and having to be power cycled.

After about a year I decided it was overkill and narrowed everything down to the 150 and four of the 250s that had the best picture.

[tktplz]

Seems like many of you have this multiple tuner thing nailed - Could any of you point me in the right direction?

My first system had 3-150's, and worked great. I setup a new system with the NVidia DualTV tuners (2 of them, along with a A180), and I cannot all the tuners to work - I've read lots of threads about registry hacks, but I'm running XP Pro, not MCE.

Can anyone point me in the right direction, or give me a link to the right area? Thanks in advance.

[PGPfan]

There is a known bug with the Nvidia DualTV cards when used with the A180. Unfortunately, that is likely the trouble you are having. I'd suggest either getting rid of the Nvidia cards, or (imho) replace the A180 with something like the HDHomerun which will eliminate any troubles you have and give you 2 HD tuners.

-PGPfan

[ke6guj]

Originally Posted by tktplz

My first system had 3-150's, and worked great. I setup a new system with the NVidia DualTV tuners (2 of them, along with a A180), and I cannot all the tuners to work - I've read lots of threads about registry hacks, but I'm running XP Pro, not MCE.

You have 2 separate possible issues with your set tup. The first issue is the one that PGPfan mentioned. From pcalchemy.com,

WARNING There are know incompatibility issues with this card when used on an NForce chipset motherboard in conjunction with the following HDTV Tuner cards::

AverMedia A180
DVICO FusionHDTV5 RT Gold and RT Lite
VBOX DTA-150

The second issue is that the released nvidia drivers for the tuner card only support a single DualTV tuner card. There is a beta driver available that is supposed to allow multiple DualTV tuners. http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...ghlight=dualtv

[tktplz]

You guys are the best! I really like the NVidia cards, so I'd like to work with them. I will first try the Snapstream "beta" program, and if that doesn't work, I'll be upgrading to the new HD card!

Thanks so much!