SageTV 7 - Arch Linux 2013.10.01 Install HOWTO

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This tutorial picks up from a base install of Arch Linux and adds: Oracle Java, SSH, NTP, WINE, Comskip, SageTV

All actions performed as root user unless otherwise stipulated.

STEP 1: Add SSH, NTP, base-dev to system

pacman -S base-dev openssh ntp
systemctl enable sshd.service
echo "logfile /var/log/ntp.log" >> /etc/ntp.conf
systemctl start ntpd
systemctl enable ntpd
#Confirm Date/Time
timedatectl status
#Set time if needed Eg. timedatectl set-time "2013-10-02 11:05:30"
#If time set manually execute: ntpd -q

STEP 2: Add SageTV

mkdir -p /opt/sagetv/server
cd /opt/sagetv/server
curl -O http://download.sage.tv/linuxbeta/server_7.1.9.tar.gz
tar xvzf server_7.1.9.tar.gz
rm server_7.1.9.tar.gz
mkdir -p /var/media/{tv,videos,music,pictures} #Multiple TV directories for mounting additional storage drives

STEP 3: Add sagesettings file with tweaks for memory and running as non-privileged user

cat > /opt/sagetv/server/sagesettings <<EOF
#Placed here for ArchLinux JRE Install
export PATH=/opt/jre/bin:$PATH
## End
PIDFILE=/opt/sagetv/server/sagetv.pid
HEADLESS=true
JAVAMEM=-Xmx1024m
mkdir -p /var/tmp/sage
JAVAOPTS="-Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/tmp/sage -XX:ThreadPriorityPolicy=42"
EOF

STEP 4: Setup Oracle Java

curl -b gpw_e24=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oracle.com -O -L 'http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u40-b43/jre-7u40-linux-i586.tar.gz'
tar xvzf jre-7u40-linux-i586.tar.gz 
ln -s /opt/jre1.7.0_40 /opt/jre
chown -R root:root jre1.7.0_40
rm jre-7u40-linux-i586.tar.gz

STEP 5: Setup 32-bit libs for Java, SageTV, and Wine - Wine is used for Comskip

pacman -S lib32-glibc lib32-libstdc++5 lib32-gcc-libs lib32-zlib lib32-freetype2 mesa-libgl lib32-mesa-libgl mpg123 libpng lib32-ncurses wine

STEP 6: Setup ifconfig for SageTV. Activation and runtime uses. Arch Linux doesn't supply and this works.

cat > /usr/bin/ifconfig <<EOF
#!/bin/bash
ip addr
EOF
chmod +x /bin/ifconfig

STEP 7: Activate SageTV

cd /opt/sagetv/server
export PATH=/opt/jre/bin:$PATH
./keygen.sh

STEP 8: Setup non-privileged user

useradd -G video -M -N -d /opt/sagetv sagetv
chown -R sagetv:users /opt/sagetv /var/media/{tv,videos,music,pictures}

STEP 9: Start SageTV

su -c /opt/sagetv/server/startsage sagetv

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cd /lib/firmware && curl -O http://www.blushingpenguin.com/mark/lmilk/haup-ir-blaster.bin
echo lirc_zilog > /etc/modules-load.d/lirc_zilog.conf 
echo "options lirc_zilog tx_only=1" > /etc/modprobe.d/lirc_zilog.conf
modprobe lirc_zilog

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Thanks to jpwegas perl script, you can now use cable card in Linux without SageDCT. This assumes you're logged in to the server as root and that you have completed an initial setup of SageTV so that sage.properties exists.

Setup build directory

mkdir /opt/builds
chown sagetv:users builds
su sagetv

Install perl and IPC from official repo

su -c 'pacman -S perl perl-ipc-run'

Install perl Process Daemon from AUR (Requires Process Table)

curl -O https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pe/perl-proc-processtable/perl-proc-processtable.tar.gz
tar xvzf perl-proc-processtable.tar.gz 
cd perl-proc-processtable
makepkg -s
pacman -U perl-proc-processtable-0.48-1-any.pkg.tar.xz

cd /opt/builds
curl -O https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pe/perl-proc-daemon/perl-proc-daemon.tar.gz
tar xvzf perl-proc-daemon.tar.gz 
cd perl-proc-daemon
makepkg -s
pacman -U perl-proc-daemon-0.14-1-any.pkg.tar.xz

Build HD Homerun libraries

mkdir -p /opt/sagetv/hdhomerun
cd /opt/builds
curl -O http://download.silicondust.com/hdhomerun/libhdhomerun_20130328.tgz
tar xvzf libhdhomerun_20130328.tgz 
cd libhdhomerun
make
cp hdhomerun_config /opt/sagetv/hdhomerun/
chmod +x /opt/sagetv/hdhomerun/hdhomerun_config

Enable network tuner discovery

sed -i 's/network_encoder_discovery=false/network_encoder_discovery=true/' /opt/sagetv/server/Sage.properties

Please follow the setup instructions here: https://github.com/jwittkoski/prime_encoder

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curl -L -C - -b "oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" -O http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u60-b27/jre-8u60-linux-i586.tar.gz