The SageTV server is Bullet Proof! I have been using it for 15+ years and it always records and has never let me down, and if you have wives, you know how bad it can be for you if you miss recording one of her shows! I have tried a lot of others (paid & free) as front ends and recording pvr’s over the last 5 years because no one is updating the Sage clients, and they need updating to stay useful. So far each PVR experiment has missed recording multiple shows within the first month or so. Once I see that is a pattern, I wipe that from the test server and try a new one. I keep using SageTV because it just works every time. I really never even need to change anything except what I need recorded. I can keep going into its dated interface to make those changes but being able to control it from the currently used client would be the cats meow..
Currently I am experimenting using Kodi 21. as a client and its working Ok. Very similar to the Plex front end only more complicated.
So far my only complaint using Kodi is actually deleting shows from disk after watching them is at best difficult. Yeah, Plex is just as difficult… by design they proudly mumble.. For them, Everyone wants to keep their old soap operas their wives watched already. Its just the thing that makes us happy.. NOT.
Anyway, do know if someone has a beta SageTV PVR addon that can be imported into Kodi? Even something old, that maybe we could figure out how to fund more development…
Yeah, wishful thinking.. But hey, its keeping from wondering if I will need to move to Ireland after the next election.. -Bill