sagetv and illico

[kara001]

hi,

Maybe this as been post before but I did'nt find the information. Sorry in advance.

I just try sage Tv and I am about to buy a licence. It works well with my analogique cable.

What I want to know is if it is possible to have a std illico (digital cable box)connect to my main computer with sagetv in my home office and a hd tv with sagetv client in my livinroom and be able to use a remote to change chanel on the illico but in the livingroom...is this possible?

In the futur, I would like to have 2 or 3 illico in my office and be able to watch and record from other place in my house.

Thank's in advance for your help and for my bad english (french canadian)

[wayner]

Yes you can use Sage to allow you to watch a digital in other parts of your house that don't have a digital cable box. The best way to do this is generally to set up one PC as a server and have several cable boxes (and tuners) connected to this PC. Then all other places with Sage via PC or via Sage extenders are clients.

The only downside to this are:

- you need as many tuners as shows that you want to record simultaneously + watch on live TV.
- channel changing is slow.

But you may find that after getting used to Sage that you never watch TV - I never do. That means that you don't care about channel changing and that you only need to have enough tuners to handle the number of shows that you want to record at the same time.

[kara001]

Thank you Wayner. I think I will still need the remote and I will purchase USB-UIRT with Girder. Do you use this setup? Is the USB-UIRT will control more thant one cable box with only one remote?

Again thank you for your answer.

[Fuzzy]

The USB-UIRT can control 3 different cable STB's (with the addition of 2 external IR emitters). That said, there may be other options. If your cable boxes have firewire ports on them, you can most likely use that to change channels on the STBs.

[wayner]

Originally Posted by kara001

Thank you Wayner. I think I will still need the remote and I will purchase USB-UIRT with Girder. Do you use this setup? Is the USB-UIRT will control more thant one cable box with only one remote?

As Fuzzy said you can control three separate boxes with two IR emitters connected to the plug - you may have to do a little bit of rewiring but it is pretty simple.

You don't need Girder, at least not for SageTV. There is a product similar to Girder called EventGhost that is free.

SageTV recognizes the USB-UIRT. You have to make minor modifications to the IR codes to tell Sage what zone to use but that is simple.

See this thread (from 6 years ago!) on how to control different zones.
http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...usb-uirt+zones

[kara001]

Thank you Fuzzy and Wayner. I will got see what EventGhost as to offer and will go read the threat.

My cable box doesn't have a firewire port so I will definetly need the USB-UIRT.

Again thank you very much for your help. I am almost setup and I really enjoy the ability of recording directly into the computer.

[Fuzzy]

You won't necessarily even need event ghost. Everything will work directly between the USB-UIRT and Sage. EventGhost/Girder is needed if you have other, non-sage functions you would like to use the remote for.

[kara001]

Ok I understand. I will put everything in place this weekend. I am pretty sure everything will go perfect. Again thanks.