11 Simultaneous Miniclients

[wayner]

Just like Nigel Tufnel's amplifiers, SageTV goes to 11.

I have setup SageTV on unRAID docker with 3GB of JVM heap and was able to connect 11 miniclients - 8 HD-200 extenders and 3 Placeshifters. These all have Gemstone installed as their UI which is fairly memory intensive. And about 8 of them were playing back video at the time.

It turns out that 3GB of JVM heap may be overkill as I am only using 1.4GB. t appears that the Linux version of SageTV is more efficient in terms of memory usage.

It is very unlikely that I will be ever using this many but I wanted to test and see how many miniclients I could connect without having issues. I may no leave my extenders permanently powered on, which I couldn't do before as if more than about 3-4 were running Sage would slow down and/or crash.

Here is the Web UI showing the 11 connected miniclients:


And here is one of the Placeshifters showing the JVM heap usage:

[KryptoNyte]

You going to do a writeup on getting this up and running? I've been interested, but the Linux environment is daunting.

[wayner]

Yes, I am trying to keep track of all of the steps that you have to do to get Sage up on unRAID docker. But I haven't really set up tuners yet, other than an OTA HDHR. The trickier part is likely getting my HD-PVRs workings plus either FireWire, or a USB-UIRT or both.

So far it has mainly been setting up the unRAID machine, adding hard drives and transferring media files which is relatively straightforward.

[amg]

Wayner,

I'm very interested in your progress as I am about to start a similar journey in setting up sage on unraid. My windows server of 11 years gave up the ghost, and I have been running sage off of a couple ancient machines I had laying around. Quite interested in firewire channel changing on my sa boxes.

[wayner]

Originally Posted by amg

Quite interested in firewire channel changing on my sa boxes.

We will likely be in the same boat as I am also using SA boxes - 3250HD and 4250HD. I will likely get to this in the next week or so and I will let you know how it goes.

[Fuzzy]

if amg is in the states, he may not be in the same boat, as more and more cabelco's are disabling the firewire ports on their cable boxes.

[amg]

I'm in NJ. I had been using Firewire to tune for nearly a decade. My windows box died and now I'm looking to setup unRaid with Docker. Currently while I assemble the pieces, my "server" is a 10yr old laptop running Ubuntu 16.10 (Sage & OpenDCT) with another 10yr old laptop running XP hosting my HDPVR tuning with the blaster as a network encoder.

2x HD100 + 1 HD200

[wayner]

So as long as Firewire is currently working you should be good.