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Old 03-03-2008, 10:47 PM
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Exclamation HD100 and SageMC - Beyond Irritated - Please Help...

Ok, so...I bought two extenders this time around. Imagine my joy when they both arrived last Friday and I got to play all weekend. Whee!

One worked like a charm, set it up in my living room...got it going in no time flat. Even set it up with SageMC. I'm a very happy guy.

My second unit isn't having so much luck, and I'm pretty sure there's something wrong with it. Won't reset using the "cure all"...really can't get it to do anything but give me a red power light. Regardless, that's not the point here...

The problem that I have now, is that after re-installing some things (I won't go into why because it's not important) I flat out can NOT get SageMC to work on my Extender. It works fine on a regular Client.

As of this moment, I have completely reinstalled EVERYTHING. Uninstalled SageTV (my server) and re-installed a 100% fresh copy of the 6.3.10RC. Fired up my extender...works great (the default STV always has).

I then proceeded to install the latest 6.3.7a install of SageMC on my server. Files in place, import the STV on my Extender aaannnd...crap out. I get a pixelated frozen screen I can do nothing with. I have to manually go into the properties file in the /clients/ folder and reset the STV I'm using just to get it to work.

I import SageMC on my client, and it works like a champ.

I even tried the full reset of my extender, which seems to have worked...but not fixed the SageMC/Extender issue I seem to be having.

Below are some photos of my frozen pixelated mess. Please, please, please help...









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Old 03-03-2008, 11:08 PM
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I'm having the same problem on my MVP (my HD100 works perfectly). I think it is something in the client's settings. Have you tried to remove the HD100's mac_address.properties file and let the extender re-build it?
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Old 03-03-2008, 11:18 PM
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On your new install, did you install java 1.6? Or did you just stick with what sage installs? Because I'm pretty sure sage installs 1.4 and sageMC needs 1.6.
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Old 03-04-2008, 12:01 AM
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Also make sure you used the full install (20+mb w/ all the graphics) instead of just the upgrade (jars and stv) on the server.
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Old 03-04-2008, 12:02 AM
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Thanks guys, interesting ideas...

toricred:
I reinstalled SageTV in full, which removed any <mac>.properties files. So it was recently re-created. I had the same issue before the full re-install...and still do.

mtyme:
I did not reinstall my OS, just SageTV. So, unless SageTV overwrites a newer version of JAVA, I doubt that would be the issue. The whole setup worked at one time... Right now, I have the following JAVA-related items installed:

Java 2 Runtime Environmen 1.4.2_13
Java(TM) 6 Update 2
Java(TM) 6 Update 3
Java(TM) 6 Runtime Environment 6 Update 1

Going to Java.com, I did a self-test and this is the result:

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Verified Java Version
Congratulations!
You have the recommended Java installed (Version 6 Update 3).
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So, unless I'm missing something, I think I'm in good shape...right?

evilpenguin:
Full install of SageTV and SageMC. I uninstalled everything first, so had no other choice.


Thanks folks!
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Old 03-04-2008, 05:19 AM
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Thanks guys, interesting ideas...

toricred:
I reinstalled SageTV in full, which removed any <mac>.properties files. So it was recently re-created. I had the same issue before the full re-install...and still do.

mtyme:
I did not reinstall my OS, just SageTV. So, unless SageTV overwrites a newer version of JAVA, I doubt that would be the issue. The whole setup worked at one time... Right now, I have the following JAVA-related items installed:

Java 2 Runtime Environmen 1.4.2_13
Java(TM) 6 Update 2
Java(TM) 6 Update 3
Java(TM) 6 Runtime Environment 6 Update 1

Going to Java.com, I did a self-test and this is the result:

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Verified Java Version
Congratulations!
You have the recommended Java installed (Version 6 Update 3).
====

So, unless I'm missing something, I think I'm in good shape...right?

evilpenguin:
Full install of SageTV and SageMC. I uninstalled everything first, so had no other choice.


Thanks folks!
Uninstall all the java packages except for Update 3.


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Old 03-04-2008, 09:22 AM
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Just to add in my two cents also. I had the same issue a while back with the black screens and messed up layout, and it too was related to Java on the server. I also suggest you uninstall all of the old versions, and just to be safe, all versions, then install the latest version. That fixed me right away at the time.
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Old 03-04-2008, 09:39 AM
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On your new install, did you install java 1.6? Or did you just stick with what sage installs? Because I'm pretty sure sage installs 1.4 and sageMC needs 1.6.
the latest Sage beta (6.3.10) installed JRE 1.6 update 3 or 4 on my machine.
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Old 03-04-2008, 09:44 AM
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I then proceeded to install the latest 6.3.7a install of SageMC on my server. Files in place, import the STV on my Extender aaannnd...
Just to be sure, you are not actually "importing" the STV (xml) file are you? And you arent loading the old SageMC16_9.STV file are you? Should be loading the SageMC16_9.xml file (not importing it).
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Old 03-04-2008, 08:29 PM
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Whoo!

Ok, so...uninstalled all JAVA versions. Reinstalled the latest (6.5). Voila. Seems to have a done the trick and I'm a much happier person because of it. <grin>

I still find is strange that a CLIENT running on the same server could run SageMC, but the extender attached to that same server couldn't. Very odd to me...

Regardless, at this point I don't care any more. Me happy.

Thanks for all the great ideas and everyone's help...

Cheers ->
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In my case it works perfectly on both my HD Extenders and only has the problem on an MVP. There's only one version of Java on the server and it is version 1.6 update 4. I recently completely rebuilt the server from scratch.
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