Thinking of Switching...

[Sagz]

I use Snapstream and I'm quite happy, but I want dual tuner support.

My question is this...

I have DirectTV using Hughes Executive Director Sat Receivers that I control with a serial cable in Snapstream. This works great in a single tuner system.

Would Sage TV be able to use two different serial links to control two different Sat receivers? Is anyone doing this now?

Thanks,

Sagz

[Sagz]

OK 98 people have looked at this post so far... I no one doing this?

[robogeek]

I don't personally have this type of setup, but I'll take a shot at it

I could be mistaken, but I don't think SageTV by itself supports more than one serial link or IR blaster per installation (ie. on the same machine). You could work around that by using a SageTV/SageRecorder combo. Even though both would be on the same machine, you would setup SageRecorder as a network encoder using one of your 2 tuner cards and configured to use the serial link to that particular satellite box. Then SageTV could be setup with your other tuner card and can also be configured to use the serial link to your other satellite box. SageTV would have to be setup as a SageTV Server and SageRecorder as a Network Encoder and you should be all set.

If somebody knows differently, please post...

I would bet that this will be one of the improvements we will see in SageTV v2...multiple serial/IR support directly from SageTV on one machine. Maybe somebody at CES that has had a sneak preview of the beta can let us know

[SHS]

Sage dose support more then one serial so yes you can do that Sagz

[sub]

SHS, is your website down at the moment? I've been unable to get to your forums over the last 24hrs.

[mikejaner]

SHS, is your website down at the moment? I've been unable to get to your forums over the last 24hrs.

Yes it is, he was talking about that in the snapstream forums earlier.
mikejaner

[SHS]

Yes sub it down it should be back online sometime monday I hope.

[fventura]

Yes SageTV is capable of controlling more than one directv receiver via serial cable. I have run SageTV with two Sony Sat-B2's controlled via Com1 and Com2. You just need enough serial ports and cables.

When setting up the tuner your prompted for which serial port you want to use to control the receiver.

[Brett]

so these are conflicting answers? Whats the case, yes or no to whether multiple tuners on serial connections will work.

SlimD

[gplasky]

There are 2 definite "yes it does" answers above. robogeek was taking a guess at it and wasn't sure. As long as you have the serial ports for it Sage can control multiple set top boxes with serial connections. I'm not sure it supports every single box out and in some cable box cases the provider had disabled the serial port on the cable box.

Gerry

[Brett]

yeah, I knew Robogeek was guessing, but I misread SHS response, and thought he was agreeing that Robogeek is right. Now I see I simple misread it.

I think I have it figured out, and since the first receiver works fine with serial and I am buying an identical one, I guess that will be fine.

SlimD

[yanksno1]

Hi, what serial port cable are you guys using? I've got a RCA DRD420RE DTV receiver (that has a Data link port on the back) I'd like to hook up through Sage. Through the Sage software, is it good at changing the channels easy? Thanks.