Setting up new epg guide

[Doubledose]

I am one of those users that has a simple sage tv setup that has not been touched in 4-5 years. All I do with it is record and play shows on it. I am running sage tv 7 and I have been reading thru all of these post about updating the guide and seem to be getting lost in all of the bits and pieces.
Is there a step by step guide some where to update sage 7 to a new epg? I would like to just do an update to my current sage 7 setup because this fall I wanted to build a new machine and put 9 on it.
Thanks
Wayne

[tmiranda]

Originally Posted by Doubledose

I am one of those users that has a simple sage tv setup that has not been touched in 4-5 years. All I do with it is record and play shows on it. I am running sage tv 7 and I have been reading thru all of these post about updating the guide and seem to be getting lost in all of the bits and pieces.
Is there a step by step guide some where to update sage 7 to a new epg? I would like to just do an update to my current sage 7 setup because this fall I wanted to build a new machine and put 9 on it.
Thanks
Wayne

You are much better off upgrading to v9 now. Schedules Direct support is built in and in a worse case scenario you can always revert back to v7.

First sign up for a free trial Schedules Direct account, then backup everything in the sagetv install directory and install v9.

[EnterNoEscape]

This isn't a guide on how to transition, but it does detail out anything you likely would want to know about setting up Schedule Direct on v9.

[Doubledose]

Originally Posted by tmiranda

You are much better off upgrading to v9 now. Schedules Direct support is built in and in a worse case scenario you can always revert back to v7.

First sign up for a free trial Schedules Direct account, then backup everything in the sagetv install directory and install v9.

Does V9 install over the top of V7 then?

[jusjoken]

Originally Posted by Doubledose

Does V9 install over the top of V7 then?

Absolutely

[Doubledose]

On the Schedules direct setup I selected Standolone / JSON / Sagetv-Sdepg
Is this correct?

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by Doubledose

On the Schedules direct setup I selected Standolone / JSON / Sagetv-Sdepg
Is this correct?

yes, though I don't think that 'setting' does anything but let schedules direct know who's using their service for what. You really don't need to do anything on their website but sign up and set up billing. Everything else will be configured entirely from within SageTV.

[Doubledose]

Well I bit the bullet tonight and installed Sage V9. I thought I would have some problems, but nothing major.
I setup my lineup for over the air local channels and when I look at the guide there is a channel 1 and there is 5 of the old analog channels that are not used with there new hd channels. I have looked at the schedules direct lineup in sage and do not see these channels in there. How do I get rid of these non used channels?
Also when I setup my satellite hdpvr lineup. The over the ota lineup is showing for that tuner. When I delete that lineup, it deletes it for all the other tuners. I would think that you only what one lineup per tuner.

Thanks
Wayne

[Fuzzy]

If you've got multiple satellite lineup, that lineup should be used for all your sat tuners. Your ota lineup would be used for all your ota tuners.

If you are trying to find out where a channel is configured from, there is a channel manager screen that helps with this. From the guide, hit options (ESC if using a keyboard), and from there choose 'Channel Manager'. This screen will list all in all your lineups, and allow you to configure them together there.

[Doubledose]

Thanks for the info Fuzzy, I found the channel config after posting that question( Walking away for awhile and coming back does help once in a while )

But I am still having trouble with the tuners showing 2 lineups. My 2 satellite tuners also show over the air lineups and my 4 over the air tuners also show the satellite lineups.
I have deleted the ota lineup out of the satellite source and it deletes from all of the tuners. SD is now telling me I have only 2 lineups left. I am using the trial at this point. So I am not sure how to get 1 lineup on each tuner as it should be.

[Fuzzy]

A given encoder (source/tuner) can only be assigned to one lineup. Are you sure the tuner has more than one lineup? Where are you seeing this information? (the lineup assigned to a tuner will display on the right hand side of the source details screen).

I think you might be seeing it in the section where you choose which schedules direct lineup to use for a given tuner - that screen will show you all the lineups you have configured on your account, it doesn't show you which one is assigned to that tuner (that will be set when you choose one of them).

[Doubledose]

Fuzzy

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

I think you might be seeing it in the section where you choose which schedules direct lineup to use for a given tuner - that screen will show you all the lineups you have configured on your account, it doesn't show you which one is assigned to that tuner (that will be set when you choose one of them).

You were right about the 2 schedules showing in the tuner where you select which one to use. (Sorry for the confusion, but it has been several years since I have messed with this). The thing that was making me think this, is when I set a recording for my local over the air channel, it was recording my local channel off of dish network on my hdpvr. I have done quite a bit of reading and read where to get to the channel merit. The hdpvr was set with the highest priority. So I have now changed all of the merit values to make the hdpvr's lower than my over the air tuners. I will see what happens here in the next few days with the tuners.
Thanks for your help

Wayne