A Sad Day - I'm Done

[tmiranda]

It's a sad day for me. After many years and countless hours of work, I am going to relegate my SageTV setup to the background. When my Xfiniti contract is up on Jan 3 I am cutting the cord which will make my Sage setup fairly irrelevant. The straw that broke the camel's back for me happened several weeks ago when Comcast moved some of its Formula1 coverage (practice and qualifying) to ESPNu, which costs even more to get. (They yanked MotoGP coverage a few years ago.)

I'll probably go with Netflix, Hulu+, Philo as well as subscriptions to Formula1 and MotoGP. I might use Sage to record NFL Football OTA.

I don't see myself doing any more plugin development but I will try to support the plugins out there already. I will also monitor the forums on a more or less regular basis.

A special thanks to stuckless who spent many hours "tutoring" me on Java development. Lot's of other people helped along the way, too many to mention. You know who you are.

[dstanley]

Thank you Tom for all your work with SageTV over the years. I for one really appreciated it!
My Sage is still running in a docker but I find that I rarely use it now too since giving up on cabletv due to a recent move out east.
Most of my stuff is coming from Sonarr and Radarr from Usenet and watching using Plex.
Wish there was an easier way to support dvd/blu-ray Iso's and Folder rips though.
Playback in Sage is one of the best parts of it ... but it needs to be updated for UHD and newer formats.
It is so sad to let go of SageTV altogether as well for me ... such a great piece of software and a great community of friends and helpers.

Cheer,
Dwight

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

It's a sad day for me. After many years and countless hours of work, I am going to relegate my SageTV setup to the background. When my Xfiniti contract is up on Jan 3 I am cutting the cord which will make my Sage setup fairly irrelevant. The straw that broke the camel's back for me happened several weeks ago when Comcast moved some of its Formula1 coverage (practice and qualifying) to ESPNu, which costs even more to get. (They yanked MotoGP coverage a few years ago.)

I'll probably go with Netflix, Hulu+, Philo as well as subscriptions to Formula1 and MotoGP. I might use Sage to record NFL Football OTA.

I don't see myself doing any more plugin development but I will try to support the plugins out there already. I will also monitor the forums on a more or less regular basis.

A special thanks to stuckless who spent many hours "tutoring" me on Java development. Lot's of other people helped along the way, too many to mention. You know who you are.

Thank for all you have done for us SageTV users ... Good luck.

[tvmaster2]

ditto - thanks for all you’ve done. just so I have a reference, Youtube and the Sagetv update packages - were those the things you worked on the most lately?

[BobPhoenix]

Sorry to see you go.

[EnterNoEscape]

Thanks for the great plugins and support! You developed/support a lot of the plugins I use every day.

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

It's a sad day for me. After many years and countless hours of work, I am going to relegate my SageTV setup to the background. When my Xfiniti contract is up on Jan 3 I am cutting the cord which will make my Sage setup fairly irrelevant. The straw that broke the camel's back for me happened several weeks ago when Comcast moved some of its Formula1 coverage (practice and qualifying) to ESPNu, which costs even more to get. (They yanked MotoGP coverage a few years ago.)

I'll probably go with Netflix, Hulu+, Philo as well as subscriptions to Formula1 and MotoGP. I might use Sage to record NFL Football OTA.

I don't see myself doing any more plugin development but I will try to support the plugins out there already. I will also monitor the forums on a more or less regular basis.

A special thanks to stuckless who spent many hours "tutoring" me on Java development. Lot's of other people helped along the way, too many to mention. You know who you are.

It’s a crime how badly F1 is treated in the U.S. cable market. In Canada, TSN takes ALL the Sky programming and airs it across their various channels, no extra charge. The only thing ESPN airs more are the practice sessions, but that’s mostly anti-climatic.

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by tvmaster2

ditto - thanks for all you’ve done. just so I have a reference, Youtube and the Sagetv update packages - were those the things you worked on the most lately?

YouTube is mine. I'm not sure what you mean by the update packages.

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by BobPhoenix

Sorry to see you go.

I'll still be around but not as active. I'll still be using one of the best (and most underrated) features of SageTV - the photo screensaver.

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

YouTube is mine. I'm not sure what you mean by the update packages.

sorry, the ‘installer’ packages. confused you with jusjokin 😉

[sic0048]

Thanks for all your work over the years!

[graywolf]

Thanks for all the work you’ve done over the years. Greatly enhanced the SageTV experience

Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust

[stuckless]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

It's always sad to see great people retire their sage setups Good to see you still hanging around and willing to update your plugins if needed... something I wasn't able to commit to

If you ever want to move to plex... let me know, I can try to help with some of the setup. I've completely moved to Plex, Netflix, Youtube, and Prime for my viewing and it's been working OK so far (WAF is good).

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by stuckless

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

It's always sad to see great people retire their sage setups Good to see you still hanging around and willing to update your plugins if needed... something I wasn't able to commit to

If you ever want to move to plex... let me know, I can try to help with some of the setup. I've completely moved to Plex, Netflix, Youtube, and Prime for my viewing and it's been working OK so far (WAF is good).

What are you using with regards to PL.EX library detection? I’m finding that PLEX has a hard time deciding if a show is a movie or tv program, which scanner to use, etc. How many different drives do you collect programming from?

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by tvmaster2

What are you using with regards to PL.EX library detection? I’m finding that PLEX has a hard time deciding if a show is a movie or tv program, which scanner to use, etc. How many different drives do you collect programming from?

When I brought in my sage library, I just gave it my raw recording folders. My shows were recorded with season and episode in the filename. There were very few shows that I had to fix up. I don't use any other scanners, just the defaults in Plex. It's not perfect, but, as I said out of hundreds of series, maybe 5 I had to fix up. Now, I kept all my movies and TV in separate folders so, when I point to my TV folder it's only TV shows and I have separate library folder for Movies which only has movies. (and a separate folder for workout videos, home vidoes, etc). For the most part it was the same with sagetv, since I rarely recorded movies on sagetv.

[NetworkGuy]

Originally Posted by stuckless

When I brought in my sage library, I just gave it my raw recording folders. My shows were recorded with season and episode in the filename. There were very few shows that I had to fix up. I don't use any other scanners, just the defaults in Plex. It's not perfect, but, as I said out of hundreds of series, maybe 5 I had to fix up. Now, I kept all my movies and TV in separate folders so, when I point to my TV folder it's only TV shows and I have separate library folder for Movies which only has movies. (and a separate folder for workout videos, home vidoes, etc). For the most part it was the same with sagetv, since I rarely recorded movies on sagetv.

Can you have multiple Movie or TV folders? I have stuff spread across 3 drives and a NAS.

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by stuckless

When I brought in my sage library, I just gave it my raw recording folders. My shows were recorded with season and episode in the filename. There were very few shows that I had to fix up. I don't use any other scanners, just the defaults in Plex. It's not perfect, but, as I said out of hundreds of series, maybe 5 I had to fix up. Now, I kept all my movies and TV in separate folders so, when I point to my TV folder it's only TV shows and I have separate library folder for Movies which only has movies. (and a separate folder for workout videos, home vidoes, etc). For the most part it was the same with sagetv, since I rarely recorded movies on sagetv.

Is there a way to move this discussion to a better locale - I don’t want to steal the thread from tmiranda’s important notice.
That being said, I have two drives, two tuners, each fed by a cable box and satellite box. The drives gather independently from each tuner.
I guess the only way for PLEX to work as you have it would be to manually relocate my Sage recordings to dedicated TV/Movie folders AFTER Sage records them, so PLEX can digest properly? Do you see any other way to streamline my process?

[Steve20A]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

It's a sad day for me. After many years and countless hours of work, I am going to relegate my SageTV setup to the background.

I've been a Sage user for many years and your support made the process much easier and the product more stable. Thank you for all your efforts. And good luck down the road.

Steve

[stuckless]

I've moved the plex conversation here... https://forums.sagetv.com/forums/sho...d.php?p=622916

[RonBoyd]

Originally Posted by Steve20A

I've been a Sage user for many years and your support made the process much easier and the product more stable. Thank you for all your efforts. And good luck down the road.

+1

Yes, a sad day indeed.