Putting Multiple heads on my sage-beast

[Fuzzy]

Has anyone made an attempt to run sage twice on the same hardware? heres why i ask. I've got my Sage machine in a closet in my office, along with my HDHR and a couple Dish boxes running into my PVR-500. I have this machine hooked up to my HDTV in the living room, and use a USB-UIRT to control it from there, as well as the USB-UIRT in the office to control the Dish boxes.

Currently, when i want to watch TV in the office, i have to fire up client on my desktop, and share the screen space with the tv. I'm curious if it is possible, instead, to put an install of SageClient on the sage machine in the closet, and hook up a tv/monitor to the 2nd output from the vid card, along with some PC speakers on the built-in sound card, and use it for viewing in there? (I could easily configure Girder to send commands from teh office's USB-UIRT to SageClient, and the other in th eliving room to Sage). i guess the biggest problem might be making sure that the sage client opens up on the right screen, but as it's a different classname, i SHOULD be able to automate that as well.

[paulbeers]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

Has anyone made an attempt to run sage twice on the same hardware? heres why i ask. I've got my Sage machine in a closet in my office, along with my HDHR and a couple Dish boxes running into my PVR-500. I have this machine hooked up to my HDTV in the living room, and use a USB-UIRT to control it from there, as well as the USB-UIRT in the office to control the Dish boxes.

Currently, when i want to watch TV in the office, i have to fire up client on my desktop, and share the screen space with the tv. I'm curious if it is possible, instead, to put an install of SageClient on the sage machine in the closet, and hook up a tv/monitor to the 2nd output from the vid card, along with some PC speakers on the built-in sound card, and use it for viewing in there? (I could easily configure Girder to send commands from teh office's USB-UIRT to SageClient, and the other in th eliving room to Sage). i guess the biggest problem might be making sure that the sage client opens up on the right screen, but as it's a different classname, i SHOULD be able to automate that as well.

Why not just add a second monitor to your desktop and watch Sage on that? Or use the video out (if you have it) from your desktop to another tv. Two issues with your thoughts: 1. You have to run Vista in order to get hardware acceleration on a secondary monitor (aka second tv). Won't work with XP. 2. I am not sure how the audio is going to handle your situation. I worry that it will either fail or you will end up hearing both streams at both locations.

Someone else can give their two cents worth on my above issues.

[pknowles]

Get a second monitor for the client, that's what I have. I watch sage on one and do stuff on the other.

[Fuzzy]

Already have 2 monitors on the client, hence the problem. Sound shouldn't be a problem, as the too instances will be using different .properties files, and as you can specify what audio renderer to use, you can specify which sound card to use. (My living room is using a USB sound card located out there, leaving the local motherboard sound for use in the office).

[Opus4]

SageTV and SageTV Client can run simultaneously on the same PC; I do that all the time during development. If you aren't using service mode, you can also use SageTV as a client UI -- see Appendix D for that parameter.

- Andy

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by Opus4

SageTV and SageTV Client can run simultaneously on the same PC; I do that all the time during development. If you aren't using service mode, you can also use SageTV as a client UI -- see Appendix D for that parameter.

- Andy

Thanks Opus, I was hoping there wouldn't be some check that prevented client from running if sagetv is already up. I do run in Service Mode now, and use SageTV.exe as a client to watch TV on my main set. My plan is to also install SageClient (I have an unused lisense floating about) as well and use that for the 2nd (local) monitor.