Beyond TV User - progress bar, "Keep At Most", cycle recordings

[jvonbokel]

I'm new to SageTV after having used Beyond TV for several years. I recently added HDTV to my setup, and I just felt like it was time to abandon ship, so to speak. Anyway, I'm liking Sage for the most part, but I have a few minor complaints.

#1 - When I hit play while the OSD/progressbar/timebar is up, it doesn't go away. Is there any way to change that behavior? I've noticed that if I use the mouse to click somewhere on the video, that works, but I typically use my remote (currently a Firefly) exclusively.

#2 - In Sage, as in BeyondTV, you can set up a favorite to only "Keep At Most" a certain number of recordings. However, in BeyondTV, I could essentially override that setting by telling it to keep a specific recording until I deleted it. Then it would keep n + 1 recordings, where n were the most recent, and the 1 was the one I manually selected to keep. Can I do anything similar in SageTV?

#3 - In the Recordings menu, at one point I had it set up to cycle through the sub-recordings, but I can't find the setting for that anymore. For example, if I have grouping turned on, and I highlight "The Office", it lists all available episodes on the right, and shows a preview image of the first. Before it used to cycle through the list and update the preview image as it incremented through the list.

[Slugger]

Originally Posted by jvonbokel

#2 - In Sage, as in BeyondTV, you can set up a favorite to only "Keep At Most" a certain number of recordings. However, in BeyondTV, I could essentially override that setting by telling it to keep a specific recording until I deleted it. Then it would keep n + 1 recordings, where n were the most recent, and the 1 was the one I manually selected to keep. Can I do anything similar in SageTV?

Mark it as a manual recording or archive it. Either flag will prevent it from being auto deleted.

Not sure if it still counts towards the keep at most number. I don't think it will if you mark it as a manual recording, but not 100% sure.

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by jvonbokel

#1 - When I hit play while the OSD/progressbar/timebar is up, it doesn't go away. Is there any way to change that behavior? I've noticed that if I use the mouse to click somewhere on the video, that works, but I typically use my remote (currently a Firefly) exclusively.

iirc pressing info while the osd is active will hide it... would be simple enough in studio to make play do the same

#3 - In the Recordings menu, at one point I had it set up to cycle through the sub-recordings, but I can't find the setting for that anymore. For example, if I have grouping turned on, and I highlight "The Office", it lists all available episodes on the right, and shows a preview image of the first. Before it used to cycle through the list and update the preview image as it incremented through the list.

there's an option in Detailed Setup ->Customize ??? that toggles whether the options auto scroll or not

[tmar89]

Originally Posted by jvonbokel

I'm new to SageTV after having used Beyond TV for several years.

I'm still a BTV user and have been observing SageTV for a while now. Years in fact. I am curious of your experience going from BTV to Sage. You can either reply here or PM me.

[BobPhoenix]

Originally Posted by jvonbokel

#1 - When I hit play while the OSD/progressbar/timebar is up, it doesn't go away. Is there any way to change that behavior? I've noticed that if I use the mouse to click somewhere on the video, that works, but I typically use my remote (currently a Firefly) exclusively.

As razrsharpe said just hit info to hide it. I do this all the time to make the OSD disappear.

Originally Posted by jvonbokel

#2 - In Sage, as in BeyondTV, you can set up a favorite to only "Keep At Most" a certain number of recordings. However, in BeyondTV, I could essentially override that setting by telling it to keep a specific recording until I deleted it. Then it would keep n + 1 recordings, where n were the most recent, and the 1 was the one I manually selected to keep. Can I do anything similar in SageTV?

As Slugger said just press the record button to make it a manual recording then your favorite will record "Keep at Most" other recordings. It does for me on the news. I have keep at most set to 1 and I have two recordings because I have one marked as manual and another marked as a favorite that gets replaced every day. The manual one I just haven't used an editor to cut out the story I wanted to keep yet.

[SomeWhatLost]

Originally Posted by tmar89

I'm still a BTV user and have been observing SageTV for a while now. Years in fact. I am curious of your experience going from BTV to Sage. You can either reply here or PM me.

fwiw, My experience:
sometime around Sage V3 or V4, I thought about making the switch from BTV to Sage... I gave the free demo a try... and I ran back crying to the comfort of BTV...

sometime around the start of sage V6/introduction of the HD200, I tried again... there were a few minor bumps in the road, a Bit of re-learning how to do things... but overall, things went very much smoother... been a happy Sage user ever since...

now with the Sage V7, I believe the switch will be much, much easier...

[jvonbokel]

Thanks Slugger, razrsharpe, and BobPhoenix. The "manual recording" suggestion seems to be working. Also I found the cycling option I was looking for in Detailed Setup -> General -> Animation Options -> Cycle through subgroup items.

And info does exactly what I'm looking for. In fact I think I ran across that once before. Is there any way to change the behavior so that a repeat press of the play or ok button would do the same thing? Is that something I can customize in Studio?

To tmar89, I'd suggest downloading the trial and checking it out. I think you'll be satisfied. Setup was pretty easy. It seems like the "TV" portion is pretty equivalent to BeyondTV, plus it includes video/photo/dvd viewing ala BeyondMedia. Also, I really like how video is integrated with the menu system, so I can browse other recordings, check upcoming recordings, etc. all without stopping what I'm watching. And perhaps most important, it's under continuous development, so it's only getting better, unlike BeyondTV.

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by jvonbokel

s there any way to change the behavior so that a repeat press of the play or ok button would do the same thing? Is that something I can customize in Studio?

you can definitely change/customize that in studio... and its a small simple project to get familiar with studio too

[Neo]

Originally Posted by jvonbokel

#1 - When I hit play while the OSD/progressbar/timebar is up, it doesn't go away. Is there any way to change that behavior?

Take a look at this customization (for v7)
http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52131
I have not tested it myself though