SageTV with good hardware = Awseome

[dadof4]

I was watching the Dallas/Philly (HDHR) game when it occurred to me at the same time Sage was recording three additional HD shows - Madmen (HDPVR), Cold Case (HDPVR) and Brothers and Sisters (HDHR). My wife was also watching one of her shows via the PVR150.

I had a total of five tuners, four of them HD, performing without a glitch. I don't think it gets any better than this. Yes I have had some issues in the past but since I updated my server and decided to forget trying to pass Dolby though the HDPVRs' my system has been flawless.

My old server was a 2.93ghz Celeron with 1 meg RAM. The MB and RAM upgrade (see my sig.) has made an enormous difference.

Bravo to SageTV! In my case it was only limited by my hardware.

[Chriscic]

Agreed. When everything is working (which it has been for me for months now) Sage is a beautiful thing!

Last night with my extenders I was able to start watching the Sunday night football game in my basement, later moving to the living room as I fed my daughter, then after we put her to bed we watched the end in the bedroom. Sweet!

Similar to yourself I have one HDHR and two HD-PVRs.

By the way, I refused to accept the stereo-only sound on the HD-PVRs and they both work perfectly now with the 5.1 audio. Wish I could say exactly what fixed it, but I'm pretty sure it was the third RMA exchange on one of my two units which was locking up constantly.

[lolachampcar]

Chriscic,

By any chance was the HDPVR that was locking up a HD200? I ask because I received my fancy new HD200, upgraded the firmware per instructions and happily watched an internet download. Any subsequent attempt to stream was met with an error.

I am working with technical support (Beta firmware, data logs) but the problem looks and smells like a heat related infant mortality (or at least very sick) problem. I am curious if you were having the same problem which would point to a systemic issue that Sage is already well aware of.

I would also be curious to learn if anyone else reading this thread has had similar problems.


Thanks,
Bill

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by dadof4

I was watching the Dallas/Philly (HDHR) game when it occurred to me at the same time Sage was recording three additional HD shows - Madmen (HDPVR), Cold Case (HDPVR) and Brothers and Sisters (HDHR). My wife was also watching one of her shows via the PVR150.

I had a total of five tuners, four of them HD, performing without a glitch. I don't think it gets any better than this. Yes I have had some issues in the past but since I updated my server and decided to forget trying to pass Dolby though the HDPVRs' my system has been flawless.

My old server was a 2.93ghz Celeron with 1 meg RAM. The MB and RAM upgrade (see my sig.) has made an enormous difference.

Bravo to SageTV! In my case it was only limited by my hardware.

That's awesome! Do you have any advice regarding tuner installation, aka, HD-PVR software first, or PVR-150, PVR-1850 etc. second? What's the trick to a stable installation?

[dadof4]

In my case the new motherboard and ram made the big difference. I did not install the tuners in any particular order. I have all of them running off one cable run with an 8 port amp. I did make sure, however, the HDPVRs' were not on the same USB hub. XP forced Windows to be reinstalled when I upgraded the hardware so I reinstalled SageTV also, saving the old WIZ and properties file from the previous install.