Sage as a network encoder

[kaudley]

Morning,

I'd like some more instruction on using Sage as a network encoder - Appendix G is rather lacking as far as setup goes.

Once you have changed the encoding server setting to true and the encoder discovery to true the instructions pretty much stop. I assumed at this point I would just go into source setup and would be able to see the other machines card as a source for setup - this didn't happen for me.

Do I need to follow some of the old documentation for sage recorder to make this work, or should it just show up? Everything I have seen seems to indicate that this should work with Sage v4 and up. I'm using a full piad Sage v4.1.3 on my main server that has been running for over a year, and I set up a new machine with a trial of v4.1.3.

Yes I posted about network encoding before but I didn't recieve any satisfactory answers to my question, hence my rephrasing of the question and the repost. TIA for any help you can offer.

[Narflex]

That should just work. If it doesn't; check to make sure you made the property settings while SageTV was not running AND also make sure you don't have a firewall blocking the communication.

If it still doesn't work then enable logging 'debug_logging=TRUE' and post your log files from both machines.

[kaudley]

Thanks for the quick reply Jeff.

No firewall, I turned the windows firewall off on both machines. Initially I had problems with the setting staying true because I forgot that the sagetvservice.exe was running in the background - shut that off and the setting stayed at true on my original server.

I'll get the logs together today at some point.

[kaudley]

ummm silly question - is debug_logging in the "sage.properties" file? If so I don't have that option, so I added it in.

Once enabled where do the logs get stored and what are they called?

[kaudley]

I hope these are what you were looking for??

[Alfiegerner]

You could try and see if anything else is using the relevant port on the encoding machine. With Sage switched off, do a 'netstat' on the command line to see if port 6969 is being used on the encoding server.