Where we have been, where we are today, and where are we going?

[photon]

Originally Posted by Skirge01

I know I'm not alone in this, but there seem to be quite a few Geico-esque "I just saved a bundle by switching to 'x'" threads of late, so I thought I'd just point out that there are still quite a few people chugging along just fine with Sage.

I experience none of the issues you mention. Unless something amazing happens and someone releases an awesome PVR application which blows away what I have with Sage, the only reason I can see me dropping it is due to not being able to get hardware (mainly HD-PVRs--which I already have backups of) at a reasonable price.

Sage "just works" for me and that's all my house needs.

+1 Nothing else comes close.

And to add some variation on the hardware and OS content sage works fine with:
I just installed Sage TV 6 on a new box. HP EX495 upgraded with 4GB RAM, Q9550s Quad core processor, 250 GB SSD boot drive and 3 4TB drives. OS is Windows Home Server 2011 (64 bit Server 2008 underneath). Sage is recording via HD Homerun tuners to 3 650GB partitions on the 3 4TB drives formatted 64k block size. The remainder of the 4 TB drives space contain my non TV media duplicated by stablebit drivepool. DirMon2 and comskip. HD 300s connected to the TVs. I'll update to java 7 before long. One step at a time

I have spent a good bit of time with Sage TV 7 and will continue to look at Sage TV 7 on another box from time to time. I see some technical advantages but it can't replace Sage 6 with SageMC UI for me yet. SageMC UI doesn't work properly on 7 and the other UI replacements don't appear to come close in ease of use, non TV media feature set, and presenting commonly used options on screen without needing to press the options button. Overall too many hidden or missing features and button presses compared to SageMC.

[texneus]

Originally Posted by SWKerr

Although I had problems initially with the Colossus they have been fixed for quite some time. I am running Windows8 on my server with 2x Colossus with DirecTV and no reboots. I have not had a bad recording related to the Colossus in so long that I can't even recall one.

If you dont mind me asking, what version Colossus drivers are you using?

[Slack]

About a month ago I thought I was going to build a new box, install NextPVR as a backend to XBMCs on NUCs as front ends. And just perhaps sell my HD200s.

And I did all that with the exception of buying any NUCs, and selling the HD200s

Got NextPVR installed.
Got Schedules Direct working.
Enabled PVR backend support in XBMC
Went to guide and saw no means to set up a favorite. What?

That's when I started reading threads about moving SageTV to a new computer. Glad I did. Will be using SageTV V7, HD200s, and the SageTV XBMC plugin for the foreseeable future.

[tchapin]

Photon, I had thought just like you that SageMC was the best. And it was. And I used SageTV v7 with the SageMC add-on but had lots of problems. I've found that using Gemstone, I am able to get very similar functionality, with relatively little effort, as with SageMC.

Although I'm finding that comskip doesn't seem to work as well. I haven't spent time looking into that yet.

[BigSwifty]

Originally Posted by tchapin

Photon, I had thought just like you that SageMC was the best. And it was. And I used SageTV v7 with the SageMC add-on but had lots of problems. I've found that using Gemstone, I am able to get very similar functionality, with relatively little effort, as with SageMC.

Although I'm finding that comskip doesn't seem to work as well. I haven't spent time looking into that yet.

Hmm. I recently did a clean windows 7/64 install and have SageMC working almost perfectly. The only thing I can't get working properly is the commercial detector plugin. I've poste this before; should probably post some log files in the appropriate thread.

I'll stick with Sage until obsolescence.

[aflat]

I haven't tested it, but I know at work, jdk7_51 has caused me all kinds of issues. They upped the securit yto levels of stupid with 51. I havne't updated my server that high, it may be just fine, I know that the security messed up tons of things for me(mostly related to jenkins)