SageTV Server on a NAS

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by stuckless

It might be overkill for just SageTV but once you get unRAID installed and realize that testing out things like Plex, Emby, Jellyfin, Sonarr, Radarr, etc, all become just a click away, you might just end up with a machine that is running 10+ docker containers + windows VMs (as I am).

I'm looking to simplify my setup and retire the machine I use as a Sage server. Moving Sage to a NAS that I already have running will accomplish that.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

I'm looking to simplify my setup and retire the machine I use as a Sage server. Moving Sage to a NAS that I already have running will accomplish that.

I get that. When I first moved to unRAID I was looking to minimize my maintenance. Keeping a server up to date, etc, was more than I wanted to deal with. So I moved to unRAID because I wanted a NAS and I had a crappy machine lying around that could do the task. And it did for a while, but, I eventually bought a powerful server and then used that for unRAID because, as I said, installing and keeping things up to date wasn't a chore any longer, and trying new things was clean and simple, so today that machine runs 10 dockers and a Wind 10 VM, and is almost no effort to maintain, which is what I really like, because I don't have a lot of time to spend playing with stuff these days

[SteveW]

Originally Posted by SteveW

I just bought a 1019+ and have been wondering about doing this... I run two HD-PVRs tho - they connect to my Sage server by USB so... think I would be stuck with a Win box with SageTV anyways as at least an encoder.

Now that Christmas is over, been thinking about this again. Anyone out there running SageTV on Docker on a Synology, and if so and you use HD-PVRs, do you have another instance of SageTV Server running on say a small PC with Win 10 as an encoder for them? If not, how are you doing it?

One of the plugins we use here is the SageTV Popup for Caller ID which obviously runs through YAC in Win, but I think I can replace the YAC server with an instance of NCID running on a Pi for example, and solve that issue... Assuming the plugin is still downloadable within SageTV...

The one wild card here though is the rare times Sage may hang up and need to be restarted. My wife understands rebooting our Win 10 Sage server. Having her deal with that in Docker... not so sure...

-Steve

[wayner]

Originally Posted by SteveW

The one wild card here though is the rare times Sage may hang up and need to be restarted. My wife understands rebooting our Win 10 Sage server. Having her deal with that in Docker... not so sure...

-Steve

I don't know about Synology but I run SageTV in a docker on unRAID. Restarting the docker is extremely easy. Click on the docker and select restart from the popup menu. Or better yet, run OpenVPN server on your docker (or your router or another PC) and connect in to your LAN from your phone and do it yourself.