seperating sagetv service and gui onto 2 machines?

[avonnied]

I have the 1 sagetv license that allows me to run the sagetv server and the player on the same machine..

is it possible to seperate the server service onto one machine and the gui onto another machine?

so instead of running service + gui on a single machine, run the service on machine 1 and the gui on machine 2 (a server/client)..


or do i have to purchase the client version? (which would make the server gui useless)..


along with that, can you run 2 servers and have them combined onto a single client? (the client connects to both servers simultaneously)..

[ke6guj]

You will need to purchase the client for a separate gui on a second computer. The server gui is not useless, since it can be still used to manage the server or to watch TV on the server.

Yes, you could run 2 servers, 1 as the main server, and the second as an encoding server. On the encoding server, you could have extra capture cards that you couldn't put in the main server. The main server could use tuners in both servers to record your shows as it needed to. The client connects to the main server, and the main server supplies the client with its data.

If you are asking about running 2 separate servers that are totally separate, and don't know about each other, you could do that as well. In that case, when you start your client, it will ask you which server you want to connect to. Once connected to a server, you have access to all that server's data. But not to the second server. You would need to restart the client to connect to the second server.

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by avonnied

or do i have to purchase the client version? (which would make the server gui useless)..

Yeah, you have to use client. I kind of wish they'd change it so they sold Sage as "backend" (server) and "frontend" (client) parts, but oh well

along with that, can you run 2 servers and have them combined onto a single client? (the client connects to both servers simultaneously)..

You can run two instances of SageTV on different machines, one as a server, and one as a slave network encoder+client. But no SageTV servers don't communicate with each other.