Dual server and dual client Setup

[sticky]

Here is the dealio.

I will have a Sage Server in my office hooked up to two Dish Network boxes, a Sage Server in the living room hooked up to my TV with two OTA HDTV cards and a few clients across the house. I have to have the the OTA cards in the living room because I can not tune OTA in my office.

Would this type of configuration work. I believe the OTA Server would act as a network encoder, but would the two servers "sync up" and would the client be able to tell either server to record?

[Opus4]

If you set up one of the servers as a network encoder, as shown on the bottom half of p. 248 of the v5.0 manual (Appendix G), you'll have a single SageTV system to share for all your clients. (The network encoder system would have a UI that acts as a client of the main server too.)

If you want, you could also set up your recording dirs as UNC paths, then use the mmc/encoders/###/forced_video_storage_path_prefix= property to have the tuners in each system store their recordings on the local system. Just use the first few chars of the UNC path that is local to a tuner to have it use only those dir(s).

- Andy

[sticky]

Andy,

Thanks for the help . Now to wait for the upcoming beta . Does my status of EX-news guy get me a sneak peak at the beta .

Regards,

Alan
AKA sticky

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by sticky

Does my status of EX-news guy get me a sneak peak at the beta .

I don't know, but that would be news to me...

- Andy

[sticky]

On the netwrok encoder machine.. does that require two licenses? One for the network encoder and one for the client?

[Opus4]

No, the encoder only needs a license for SageTV, since it acts as both the encoder and client UI. The first bullet-point on p. 248 tells how to start a client UI.

(edited to correct the answer)

- Andy

[korben_dallas]

Originally Posted by Opus4

The network encoder system would have a UI that acts as a client of the main server too.

Originally Posted by Sticky

On the netwrok encoder machine.. does that require two licenses? One for the network encoder and one for the client?

Originally Posted by Opus4

Yes, they are two separate installations of SageTV & each license is for use on a single PC.

Are you contradicting yourself, Andy? If he purchases a full version of SageTV, which comes with recording and playing ability, why would he need an additional client license if that full version is used as a network encoder?

[Opus4]

Oops! Thanks, I misread the question & thought the question was whether 2 SageTV licenses were needed for the 2 PCs.

On the encoder PC, only a SageTV license is needed; the additional Client license is not needed for that PC since SageTV acts as both the encoder and the client UI. I'll edit my above post to correct it also.

- Andy