Utilities & How-To ideas for SageTV

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Several forum members have created utilities for use with SageTV; some of them are listed below.

Remember: these utilities have not been created by SageTV. Questions regarding their usage should be directed towards the utilities' authors, either in a new thread or in the thread where the utility is presented.

If you know of a SageTV utility that is available in this forum that should be included, please send a PM. (I know there are more utilities in these forums... but I seem to have lost track of the others. So, I might as well start with a few & let the others be recommended.)


Power Management

• Suspend and resume with SageTV (SageWake; Thanks mwhitlock)
• sagetv power management (Thanks jman)

Automatic Backup of SageTV Config Files

• New version of cyclic backup of Sage config files (Thanks jimbobuk)
• Wiz.bin and Sage.Properties Backup Using WinXP Backup Util. (Thanks mayamaniac)
• Script for backing up before updating Sage installation (Thanks Enormous)
• Automated Sage backups...with date and zipped up (Thanks Shield)
• BackupFiles utility download (Thanks babgvant)

Control SageTV via Event Messages

• SendMessage: a utility to send messages to any Windows program

Sleep Timer

• SageTV Sleep Timer: utilities to put SageTV to sleep after a specified amount of time (Thanks walts81)

Undelete Utilities (to save those accidentally deleted files)

• Post with a link to Handy Recovery (Thanks SHS, for the link)

Channel Fine Tuning

• FreqShifter v1.0, free tool for overriding TV channel frequencies (Thanks WebShifter)

Conversion from other media applications

• Migrating from Vista MC to SageTV 6 (Thanks Ghostlobster)

Mount DVD ISO files

• Play a mounted ISO in SageTV (Thanks scat)
• Enable DVD ISO support (Thanks MrFusion)

- Andy