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<blockquote data-quote="gtfreymann" data-source="post: 953433" data-attributes="member: 114733"><p>I came from SageTV to MePo as well. Welcome <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p>This was relatively easy to setup. Search the Wiki or Forums and you should find what needs to be done, which isn't much.</p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p>Check the Plugins section.</p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p>Not sure about this. If you are using external set top boxes, you can control them with IR. A typical Microsoft IR Transceiver will only control up to two receivers mind you. Since you have 3 I'm not sure how'd you control the third one. There is information on how to setup up the IR Blaster stuff. It's not easy to get going but it works.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/17_Extensions/3_Plugins/IRSS_(IR_Server_Suite)/Set_Top_Box_Blasting" target="_blank">http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/17_Extensions/3_Plugins/IRSS_(IR_Server_Suite)/Set_Top_Box_Blasting</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/schedules-direct-us-canadian-mexico-epg-plugin-updated-august-2010.26951/" target="_blank">https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/schedules-direct-us-canadian-mexico-epg-plugin-updated-august-2010.26951/</a></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://code.google.com/p/mp-schedulesdirect/wiki/SupportForTheTvDbCom" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/mp-schedulesdirect/wiki/SupportForTheTvDbCom</a></p><p> </p><p>With MePo up to 1.3Beta it's quite easy to get up and running. You'll want some basic plugins that will do all the nice things we had with SageTV, and they are all free.</p><p> </p><p>This MePo Setup Guide</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://office.homefrontus.com/mediaportal/index.html" target="_blank">http://office.homefrontus.com/mediaportal/index.html</a></p><p> </p><p>saved me loads of work when I got started with MePo. It's a bit out of date, so you should likely fetch all the plugins from the MePo website yourself, and make sure, if you are using MePo 1.3B that they are compatible. Being in Canada all the fancy music sites aren't available to me so I skipped them.</p><p> </p><p>Use the Extension Manager to install PlugIns. It's an icon on your desktop that appears after you've installed. It will save you lots of time.</p><p> </p><p>Off the top of my head you'll want:</p><p> </p><p>comskip</p><p>fanart handler</p><p>moving pictures</p><p>tv series</p><p>schedules direct</p><p>IR Server Suite, TV3 Blaster Plugin</p><p>onlinevideos</p><p> </p><p>Some interesting plugins I had to use to keep track of what was watched, etc:</p><p> </p><p>follw-it</p><p>last.fm</p><p>track-it</p><p> </p><p>The music scrobbler requires an account at last.fm</p><p> </p><p>If you use the built-in MyVideos, it creates its own database on every machine and if you have multiple clients, you have to manually trigger a scan on all of them to keep the db update. This will show you everything on your hard drive if you use the Shares view, but if you switch to any other view it requires the movie to be catalogued before you can see it. This was confusing to me as SageTV had one central database that all the clients used. MePo 1.x builds this db locally on each client and is a real pita.</p><p> </p><p>Moving Pictures is another great Movie handler but guess what? It too creates a local db of the movies it catalogs, and it's separate from MyVideos, so now you have two programs accessing the internet to catalog your movies on every machine.</p><p> </p><p>The new MyVideos in 1.3 is awesome and you can likely get away with just using it exclusively if that helps.</p><p> </p><p>Oh, the same goes for TV-Series. It writes its own db on the local machine. I hear this may change with MePo 2.</p><p> </p><p>I started out with one Server/Client managing two Bell SD Receivers and 4-6 clients in the house. Now I just use MePo to serve media and dropped the LiveTV part completely, so each machine storing its own databases for movies and tv series will likely have to stay for me as there is no longer one machine on 100% of the time.</p><p> </p><p>We loved SageTV, and I think that was our favourite (I tried a lot of HTPC software), but here is Media Portal (MePo for short) and it is quite amazing too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gtfreymann, post: 953433, member: 114733"] I came from SageTV to MePo as well. Welcome :-) This was relatively easy to setup. Search the Wiki or Forums and you should find what needs to be done, which isn't much. Check the Plugins section. Not sure about this. If you are using external set top boxes, you can control them with IR. A typical Microsoft IR Transceiver will only control up to two receivers mind you. Since you have 3 I'm not sure how'd you control the third one. There is information on how to setup up the IR Blaster stuff. It's not easy to get going but it works. [url]http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/17_Extensions/3_Plugins/IRSS_(IR_Server_Suite)/Set_Top_Box_Blasting[/url] [url]https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/schedules-direct-us-canadian-mexico-epg-plugin-updated-august-2010.26951/[/url] [url]http://code.google.com/p/mp-schedulesdirect/wiki/SupportForTheTvDbCom[/url] With MePo up to 1.3Beta it's quite easy to get up and running. You'll want some basic plugins that will do all the nice things we had with SageTV, and they are all free. This MePo Setup Guide [url]http://office.homefrontus.com/mediaportal/index.html[/url] saved me loads of work when I got started with MePo. It's a bit out of date, so you should likely fetch all the plugins from the MePo website yourself, and make sure, if you are using MePo 1.3B that they are compatible. Being in Canada all the fancy music sites aren't available to me so I skipped them. Use the Extension Manager to install PlugIns. It's an icon on your desktop that appears after you've installed. It will save you lots of time. Off the top of my head you'll want: comskip fanart handler moving pictures tv series schedules direct IR Server Suite, TV3 Blaster Plugin onlinevideos Some interesting plugins I had to use to keep track of what was watched, etc: follw-it last.fm track-it The music scrobbler requires an account at last.fm If you use the built-in MyVideos, it creates its own database on every machine and if you have multiple clients, you have to manually trigger a scan on all of them to keep the db update. This will show you everything on your hard drive if you use the Shares view, but if you switch to any other view it requires the movie to be catalogued before you can see it. This was confusing to me as SageTV had one central database that all the clients used. MePo 1.x builds this db locally on each client and is a real pita. Moving Pictures is another great Movie handler but guess what? It too creates a local db of the movies it catalogs, and it's separate from MyVideos, so now you have two programs accessing the internet to catalog your movies on every machine. The new MyVideos in 1.3 is awesome and you can likely get away with just using it exclusively if that helps. Oh, the same goes for TV-Series. It writes its own db on the local machine. I hear this may change with MePo 2. I started out with one Server/Client managing two Bell SD Receivers and 4-6 clients in the house. Now I just use MePo to serve media and dropped the LiveTV part completely, so each machine storing its own databases for movies and tv series will likely have to stay for me as there is no longer one machine on 100% of the time. We loved SageTV, and I think that was our favourite (I tried a lot of HTPC software), but here is Media Portal (MePo for short) and it is quite amazing too. [/QUOTE]
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