How I Upgraded my entire system

[AlphaCrew]

I thought I would start this thread to post up my video's on my V9 upgrade path. I used the great works of many on this forum to complete my upgrade, so big thanks to them.

Big thanks to the programmers who are making V9 a viable solution in 2017 and beyond.

SageTV OpenDCT Conversion Part 1 (4K)
https://youtu.be/a9LSy6xkCBc

Upgrading to SageTV V9 With Schedules Direct Part 2 (4K)
https://youtu.be/j9e2eSRw5xQ

[Narflex]

Thanks for sharing!

[pvr599]

Although, I did a complete re-install from scratch (server held by ransomware), the video helped me a lot. Thanks so much. I wish there were more of these.

[sflamm]

What is the point of uninstalling and then reinstalling SageTV7?

If going to uninstall SageTV 7 might as well go straight to SageTV 9 (clean install).

If you want to preserver your plugins etc then you do NOT want to uninstall SageTV 7 - you want to install SageTV 9 directly on top of it. With the latest installer this should work immediately....

[jarredduq]

Originally Posted by sflamm

What is the point of uninstalling and then reinstalling SageTV7?

If going to uninstall SageTV 7 might as well go straight to SageTV 9 (clean install).

If you want to preserver your plugins etc then you do NOT want to uninstall SageTV 7 - you want to install SageTV 9 directly on top of it. With the latest installer this should work immediately....

Could be for the codecs that are included with v7.

[AlphaCrew]

Originally Posted by sflamm

What is the point of uninstalling and then reinstalling SageTV7?

If going to uninstall SageTV 7 might as well go straight to SageTV 9 (clean install).

If you want to preserver your plugins etc then you do NOT want to uninstall SageTV 7 - you want to install SageTV 9 directly on top of it. With the latest installer this should work immediately....

Sorry for the delay; as jarredduq mentioned it's the easiest way to get the MPEG decoder, and closed captioning in V9.

After my initial upgrade failed writing over my existing V7 installation, I didn't want or need to preserve any plug-ins, BUT when I moved my wiz.bin file over to the new installation and started up V9, most of my plug-in where again present under installed plug-ins.

I have no idea how or why that was happening, but it was indeed a brand new V7 and V9 installation (with absolutely fresh folders), and I didn't install any plug-ins.

This, as you can imagine, caused all manor of strange plug-in problems, and is the reason I brought up the entire plug-in removal thing.

As I mentioned at the end of the video to my audience, they may get away with a simple V9 over existing V7 installation without any problems, however with my setup it just wasn't the case.

[AlphaCrew]

Originally Posted by pvr599

Although, I did a complete re-install from scratch (server held by ransomware), the video helped me a lot. Thanks so much. I wish there were more of these.

I'm so glad it helped. Thank you.