Multiple Capture Locations

[msurebel]

I was all set to put all of my satellite, cable, OTA and internet in one location, but I don't have enough coax runs to this location and it is pretty hard to add more without them being all exposed and ugly.

I want to have both sat receivers, OTA, cable, plus the internet at the server. At the moment, there is one coax feeding the modem, one for the cable and one for the satellite. (This location had only one TV needing signal, hence the two cable for sat and cable) To add the other sat to this location, I need another feed of coax, right?

My question is, can I have another secondary server that capture the OTA and one of the sat receivers and have it capture on the primary server? My secondary server would be the kids computer, not very capable of acting as a server. Can I redirect the capture to my main server?

[stanger89]

Yes, you can setup a second (or third, fourth...) PC as a network encoder using a second copy of SageTV configured to be an "encoding server". There's a section (which I forgot the number of) in the SageTV manual about doing that.

[msurebel]

I would assume a seperate license for that as well.

I may use a splitter for the cable/modem for the time being, if I need additional feeds later, I'll add them.

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by msurebel

I would assume a seperate license for that as well.

Yup.