SageTV and R5000 Startup?

[voorhees]

I got my shinny new R5000 hooked up and working fine, however when I restart my server or it restarts itself SageTV does not recognize the R5000 tuner until I go to the setup sources page. It looks like the SageTV service on my WHS server is starting before the R5000 software and then SageTV does not recognize it. Is there a way to tell SageTV to start after a delay so the R5000 software can start first (maybe with a batch file or something instead of letting it automatically start)? Or, is there a way to tell SageTV to check for a networked encoder at various time intervals after startup so the R5000 tuner is recognized?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Clift]

There was a thread on this a while ago. IIRC what some people were doing was putting a batch file in the Startup folder to wait 5,10, 15 seconds or however long, then launch the sagetv.exe. The other thing is to set SageTV to NOT automagically start up.

Something like:

ping 127.0.0.1 -n 10 > nul

"C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\SageTV.exe"

exit

[Phydeaux]

I had the same issue. My resolution is a simple batch file in the Windows Startup Group which kicks off the SageTV service 90 seconds after Windows loads. It uses the "sleep" command, which is a command line utility available in the Windows Server / Windows XP Resource kit, which is free. Here's the contents of my StartSage.bat file:

sleep 90
net start SageTV



RLW

[Clift]

Good point. The batch code I posted only starts the SageTV program, as opposed to the service.

[voorhees]

Originally Posted by Phydeaux

I had the same issue. My resolution is a simple batch file in the Windows Startup Group which kicks off the SageTV service 90 seconds after Windows loads. It uses the "sleep" command, which is a command line utility available in the Windows Server / Windows XP Resource kit, which is free. Here's the contents of my StartSage.bat file:

sleep 90
net start SageTV



RLW

Phydeaux and Clift, thanks for the replies. I like the sleep command along with starting the service since that is what I am running on WHS, however I have a quick question or two. Is the "Windows Startup Group" the Startup folder under the All Program Folder, or is is something different? If it is, it looks like I need to:

1) Stop SageTV service from automatically starting with Windows
2) Create batch file with above (after getting Resource Kit)
3) Place batch file in Startup folder

Does that cover it or am I missing something?

Thanks so much for the help.

[Clift]

Seems like that should do it. Remember, when you log into WHS all shortcuts in "startup" folder get executed. But in your case you should be fine because if you log in at a later time, a net start will just be ignored since, in essence, Sage TV service will already be started.

[voorhees]

Well, I implemented the steps outlined above and it looks like everything is working as advertised. SageTV is waiting to start, which gives the R5000 software time to launch, and thus SageTV now sees my R5000 once it is up and running.

Clift and Phydeaux, thanks so much for the help.