HD 200 to NAS

[SageDonkey]

Hi All,

I have searched and haven't seen the answer (though I think I know the answer) - anyway to have the HD200 stream directly from the media source (NAS) when used in Extender mode? In other words, I know the HD-200 will stream directly from the NAS in standalone mode, the Sage Client streams directly from the NAS when the UNC paths are used - any way for the HD-200 to do the same when run in extender mode?

[rtengvad]

But when you use the extender mode it meenas that it communicates with a sage server somewhere on your network. If you there specify the NAS as an import directory in Sage I guess you get what you ask for. Or have I misunderstood your question?

Rasmus

[SageDonkey]

From what I understand, if I have a SageClient on a PC, when it starts to play a file from the Sage server, it looks at the path of the media file and will try to connect directly to the machine hosting the file (if its a UNC path). So instead of going NAS->SageServer->SageClient, it will see the UNC path handed to it by the server and go NAS -> SageClient. I was hoping this would be true of the HD-200 as well, but I can clearly see the network traffic passing from NAS->Sage->Extender. Is there any setting that I can trigger to make this happen?

[stanger89]

Not that I know of, why does it matter?

[SageDonkey]

Bandwidth...my NAS has NIC bonding and my Sage server just has 1 NIC card...so when watching BluRay stuff, the Sage server starts to get saturated with 2 hd-200's running (only have a 100mps card on the Sage server). Add on top of that HD Homerun traffic when both are recording. Was just hoping to offload from Sage server straight to NAS if possible (since the SageClient can do this).

[GKusnick]

I'm guessing the answer is going to be that SageTV Client can do it because it executes the UI locally. In particular, all the playback control commands (pause, seek, skip, etc) happen on the client.

Whereas an HD200 running in extender mode executes all that stuff on the server. So the server has to be in the loop to carry out those playback commands, and to know when to mark recordings Watched, and so forth.

Seems to me like the real solution to your problem is to spend the $20-$30 for a decent gigabit card for your server.

[stanger89]

Yeah, you can get a gig-E Intel nic for about $30.

[SageDonkey]

Thanks. I was being cheap and hoping there was a way to do it without dropping 30 big ones

[stanger89]

Frankly if you've got a couple extenders and HDHRs, I don't think 100Mbps is enough regardless of how stuff's pulled. Actually IMO 100Mbps just plain isn't enough for any sort of "server".