garysbootlegs said:
Has anyone managed to get sagetv working? If so any chance of a step by step guide as it doesnt work for me with the settings from that site.
Could be network / firewall related. Try disabling firewalls and make sure no other app is using the same port (6970).
Could be you haven't specified the dbox ip address. If in doubt
Make sure you have your
system configured to resolve the host name "dbox" to your dbox's IP
address..
Simply add a line like this:
192.168.0.202 dbox
to your c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file.
Here's a broad outline assuming you're new to sagetv and you want to hook the dbox up with epg data. I've cobbled this together from a few different sources so thanks go to them. It might sound daunting but its pretty straight forward
1) Download and install sagetv - the later the version the better although I think it should work with 2.28 onwards.
2) Setup xmltv Programme Guide Downloads.
First of all you need to set up your programme guide details. It can be a bit fiddly setting this up so I'd suggest initially sorting say the first five channels of your dbox list.
I use an older version of Alan Birtle's excellent Radio Times grabber:
http://www.birtles.org.uk/xmltv/xmltvrt_2.20W.exe. Newer version are available at
http://www.birtles.org.uk but this one does everything I need it to so I haven't bothered upgrading. For a full explanation of how to set it up properly see
http://www.sisko.org/archives/2005/01/08/using-xmltv-in-the-uk-to-download-epg-data/ . The following is a quick guide to you up and running.
Press Configure and set it up to download your first few dbox channels, e.g. BBC1, BBC2, ITV etc. In the settings page get it to output the file to the install directory of sagetv and call the file epgdata.xml. Save and exit the program - do not download the data yet.
Next go the directory where the radio times xmltv grabber was installed. Look for a file called something like userchannels.txt (can't remember exactly ... will look later). Each number on a seperate line identifies each of the channels you have selected. You need to copy these numbers as they are ino the file called AltChIds.txt (again, can't remember filename exactly ... will look later). After each number in the list put a space followed by a number that represents where you need the channel to appear in your sage lineup. So if your userchannels.txt read like this:
92
102
43
56
your AltChIds.txt would read:
92 1
102 2
43 3
56 4
Ok, now run the xmltv grabber so it outputs to $sage_directory\epgdata.xml. You will ned to schedule this program to again to get more data as you need it.
3) Next we need to setup sage to use our xmltv data.
I've copied / amended this from a post on sage forums at
http://forums.freytechnologies.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1484 . These should be the only bits you need:
Step A
Get corykim's xmltv plugin (xmltv.zip) for SageTV:
http://forums.freytechnologies.com/f...=6589#post6589
Unzip it to your SageTV folder. So you should end up with an xmltv directory inside the SageTV folder something like this: c:\Program Files\Frey Technologies\SageTV\xmltv
In the SageTV folder, open the Sage.properties file and look for the following line:
epg/epg_import_plugin=
and change it to:
epg/epg_import_plugin=xmltv.XMLTVImportPlugin
Before going into back into SageTV to test the plugin, make sure you have an XML listings file from XMLTV. And make sure you supply this XML listings in the SageTV directory and that it is named epgdata.xml. If you use my .BAT file code below (See Step 4) for XMLTV, then it will put your listings in the SageTV directory properly.
Step B
Get the Xerces XML parser file:
http://www.myhtpcresource.net/downloads/xerces.jar
Some browsers will try and rename it xerces.zip. If yours does, make sure you rename it to xerces.jar
Xerces.jar should be copied into the jre/lib/ext directory of your Java JRE/SDK directories. For example, C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.1_01\lib\ext\ and if you installed the SDK you also need to put it in the SDK directory e.g. in c:\j2sdk1.4.1_01\jre\lib\ext\. If you are having problems with this try copying the xerces.jar file to your SageTV installation directory, C:\Program Files\Frey Technologies\SageTV\.
4) Set sage to use the Dbox as a capture source.
Follow the instructions in the first post at
http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15537.
Start sage and in the setup configure it to use this source. Select the only video and audio selections you get and proceed. The following gets your dbox matched up against the guide data. I've used the relevant bits taken from
http://www.sisko.org/archives/2005/01/08/using-xmltv-in-the-uk-to-download-epg-data:
On the tuning screenclick Don’t Configure Tuning
When asked about whether you want to use Programming Guide data, choose Use Programming Guide Data with this Source
On the next screen, choose Cable or Satellite
You will be asked to enter a zip code: enter 00000
Now you’re asked to choose your cable or satellite provider. At this point, you should see only one option, XMLTV Lineup. If, instead, you see a whole bunch of US satellite providers (with names like Dish Network etc.), then I’m afraid you’ve not managed to install the XMLTV plug-in properly.
Click XMLTV Lineup and then wait patiently while it parses the epgdata.xml file. Sometimes, this screen just stays there, even after it’s finished parsing the file; if you’re still waiting after five minutes, go back to the main menu by clicking the SageTV logo in the top left, then go back to the Setup Wizard and click the name of your source.
On the next screen, choose between Basic Service and Extended Basic Service. I always choose Extended Basic Service, but in fact there’s no difference between the two.
You will now see a list of all the channels you imported from XMLTV. Congratulations — if you’ve made it this far, the worst is definitely over!
At this point you may want to enable or disable channels, or possibly Remap them, but let’s just check that we now have real live guide data. Click Done with Channel Setup.
Hopefully everything should be working now. If not ask here or
http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15537 and I'll try and help.
Ps. The coming build 0.5 should fix any image distortion problems.
