New Life in my Sagetv setup

[SteveD]

Last year I decommissioned my sage setup for Directv whole home solution which was a disappointment for me, but made the wife happy. I did re-install sage a few months later in a one room installation, but could not justify running a computer for sage that was barely used. Well to make a long story short, I just completed installing sage on my unraid server on a virtualized windows 7 using virtualbox. With placeshifter, and openvpn, it is a great slingbox solution. Directv wants ~$179 dollars for a device capable of slinging live tv.

Specs of Unraid Server
Phenom Triple core 2.21 GHZ
4Gig Ram
10 TB storage

Virtualized Sagetv
Windows 7 Pro
Phenom Triple core 2.21 GHZ all cores assigned to VM
1.5 Gig Ram
Hauppauge Hd PVR
Serial tuning
Silicondust dual tuner

[matt91]

so the UNRAID is installed on bare metal, right?

Where is the virtualbox installed?

[SteveD]

Virtualbox is installed on the unraid server ( bare metal). There is a virtualbox plugin available now, along with Phpvirtualbox (used to manage the virtual machine.

[matt91]

Interesting, thanks. I've never seen that plugin, but I suppose I've never looked around the UNraid plugins too much.

[PiX64]

Is your goal live tv while away from the home or are you trying to get sage recordings, movies, and other local content while away from home?

Reason I ask is plex has all of this built in, and also has an unraid server build. Makes things quite easy to deal with.

[SteveD]

I run Plex on my unraid server, the goal was to get livetv away from home without exposing a lot of open ports to the internet. This is a hobby. My ultimate goal is to figure out how to make a 2013 sony bravia smart tv play my ripped movies. It has to be the dumbest smart tv ever made. I have tried serviio, sony homestream (serviio) cpu intensive in VM. I need a good dlna solution compatible with sony, without 100 percent utilization when its in operation.

Solved problem with rips to sony bravia tv and dvd rips, windows 7 media player dlna server works perfectly with the bravia.