HDHomeRun Prime Guide?

[MrVining]

I'm considering coming back to SageTV after 2+ years of being away. I was going to use MythTV, but the playback still BLOWS for anything running on Linux (IMO) at least that's available to end users. I get screen tearing and generally clunky playback. If Roku would make a MythTV channel, it'd be all over for me. Heck, if any of the mini front end makers would add that functionally it would be awesome. For now I'm going to try my little SageTV boxes.

Anyway, I have some HDHomeRun Primes for tuners. I gather that SageDCT is what I need to configure, but I'm not finding a lot of info on this. And anything I do find it's hard to tell if it's dated or accurate. Anyone able to point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance

[mayamaniac]

I haven't done it in a while, but from what I remember, you just follow SageDCT's instructions. Basically, scan your channels with HDHR Setup app, renamed the channels to the correct abbreviations on Zap2it.com, save the generate the text file, copy and paste it into your sage.properties file, run SageTV, go to your HDHR Prime tuner source and set up the EPG.

[MrVining]

I had looked at that page before, but I think I figured out what my issue was!

Thank you for making me take a second look.

PS
Are the SageTV forums and addons still pretty active? I'm thinking about trying BeyondTV only because of the fact it seems to still be an active project.

[mayamaniac]

As far as I know, the consumer version of BeyondTV ceased development a long long time ago, many years before SageTV stopped. Snapstream focused on enterprise customer instead.

[nyplayer]

Plus Beyondtv does not support cable card.

[MrVining]

Do I still need the SageDCT if I'm running 7.1.9?

The tuners showed up in SageTV before I copied and pasted the text into Sage.properties.

[NetworkGuy]

You need SageDCT to access any channels that require a Cable Card.

Without SageDCT the HDHomeRun Prime acts just like a regular HDHomeRun.

John

[MrVining]

There is clearly some steps missing from that page.

I love love love how SageTV + Media Extenders were able to work together. I love how they can play DVD formatted files. I love how years later there are still tons of people active on this forum!!??!! Sadly this project has lost it's luster for me. Bits of data here and there. It's just too much work. I was really hoping to run a DVR on my ESXi box as I have gobs of resources available.

I think I may actually be going all the way back around to a new TiVo... The new ones will play Amazon video and that's where I buy all my movies any way.



I'm pretty sure I'll be listing my HD200's and 7 license in another thread where appropriate.

[bcjenkins]

If you can get SageTV for Linux, there is a native solution as well.