PrismCast

[KryptoNyte-Sage]

I'm wondering if something like this:
https://github.com/hjdhjd/prismcast
could be used with OpenDCT to capture these streams for SageTV. Has anyone tested this in Sage?

[mickgeller]

I am fairly certain the answer is yes. I had Chrome Capture installed in OpenDCT for a couple of weeks, about a year ago or so. Setup would be similar. You would plug Prismcast into ChannelsDVR. Then you would configure OpenDCT with a variation of the URLs you see in the Prismcast M3U files to make it tune the channels. It becomes much like installing ChannelsDVR in SageTV actually.

I uninstalled Chrome Capture, as I did not need it at the time for the NBC channels. I also run CetonProxy on a VM and feed NBC channels from there to ChannelsDVR. It is more stable than my Chrome Capture installation was.

Prismcast is better than Chrome Capture, as it runs as a Docker on my Unraid server. One undocumented thing I did not understand, at first, is that the Chromium browser is part of the Prismcast docker, accessed at port 6080 via noVNC. I wasted time pursuing a separate Chrome install on Unraid before I figured that out.

I jumped on Prismcast to get back ESPNs and FXX, FX, and FXM (for movies) in ChannelsDVR, since TV Everywhere now has them with DRM. My current feeling is that I'm in a stabilization period, and it may not necessarily ready for prime time yet. I think there is more to tweak before I let SageTV at it.

One final thought - If you're not running ChannelsDVR you might not have channel numbers. It could still work, but you'd need to create a script to tune channels, and reference that in OpenDCT. You can "export" Prismcast channels to a JSON file and I think you would start there.

[KryptoNyte-Sage]

Mick, I finally had some time today to look PrismCast over and see what it takes to get it running. Am I correct that a Windows 10 user just has to install node.js (without any addon tools during the installation) and this just works in Channels DVR? The developer, HJD, is really cleaning this up nicely it appears.

[mickgeller]

I cannot speak authoritatively on Windows as I have this installed on Unraid, using the docker. However I think the answer is I think so.

As for ChannelsDVR, it's configured as an m3u source. A big part of the setup is going through the individual sources in Prismcast and logging in with valid credentials. That's a one-time thing hopefully.

[KryptoNyte-Sage]

Thanks. I'm currently using Channels DVR as a tuner(s) in Sage. You did get me thinking that it's probably best to get PrismCast going in Channels, then just start using the Channels tuners in Sage as I have been. That would probably resolve the channel number and guide issues that would come up without Channels DVR in the mix.

[KryptoNyte-Sage]

Does Schedules Direct have channel lineups for YouTube TV and Hulu Live TV, and the likes?

[TGsell1]

Dumb question please;  what is PrismCast?     Thanks Sent from my iPhoneOn Feb 15, 2026, at 7:18 PM, KryptoNyte-Sage ***@***.***> wrote: Mick, I finally had some time today to look PrismCast over and see what it takes to get it running. Am I correct that a Windows 10 user just has to install node.js (without any addon tools during the installation) and this just works in Channels DVR? The developer, HJD, is really cleaning this up nicely it appears. —Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[mickgeller]

You will get a better answer from the ChannelsDVR community forum under "Playground." They have all the information there. As we can leverage ChannelsDVR in our SageTV build, Prismcast becomes another tool. My motivation is that it is a way to get FXM in HD, since FXM is SD on my cable feed.

[TGsell1]

I found the info in PrismCast on GitHub so I have the basics.   Does anyone see that it couldBe useful for an Android streaming device used for my cable channels ? I currently have to tune manually which is a huge pain and I have a way to capture the output via HDMI and a network encoder which OpenDCT recognizes.   I used to deploy Windows’s MEdia Center but with the death of CableCard that system is obsolete.   Still looking for a solution that Sage (or ChannelsDVR or ?) can tune     Thanks Sent from my iPhoneOn Feb 16, 2026, at 10:34 AM, Tom gsell ***@***.***> wrote:Dumb question please;  what is PrismCast?     Thanks Sent from my iPhoneOn Feb 15, 2026, at 7:18 PM, KryptoNyte-Sage ***@***.***> wrote: Mick, I finally had some time today to look PrismCast over and see what it takes to get it running. Am I correct that a Windows 10 user just has to install node.js (without any addon tools during the installation) and this just works in Channels DVR? The developer, HJD, is really cleaning this up nicely it appears. —Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[TGsell1]

Got it.    Thanks !Sent from my iPhoneOn Feb 16, 2026, at 2:50 PM, mickgeller ***@***.***> wrote: You will get a better answer from the ChannelsDVR community forum under "Playground." They have all the information there. As we can leverage ChannelsDVR in our SageTV build, Prismcast becomes another tool. My motivation is that it is a way to get FXM in HD, since FXM is SD on my cable feed. —Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[Ugadata]

You do not need to have a Docker setup to use ChannelsDVR/Primecast. You don't need Primecast for Channels to be useful.

In general, Channels has a feature, TVE -TV Everywhere, that allows recording some channels through a website. TVE would be somewhat similar to PlayOn -I think. I don't remember being able to setup recordings in Sage for PlayOn. Once a source from Channels is setup in Sage, it is just another tuner(s) and works like any other tuner in Sage to record a show, including setting up favorites.

[mickgeller]

For your purposes Channels is designed to use the Xfinity Stream App's source as its source. So it's source is an internet connection, not a cable tv coax. The protocol it uses is TVE (TV Everywhere). TVE allows for sharing streams, if there is no DRM on the streams. Channels is flexible in allowing multiple tuner sources, such as HD Homerun and M3U sources (internet streams).

Primecast is the streaming equivalent of using an HDPVR to record HBO and such. It scrapes a browser and allows you to record content for streams that Channels would otherwise not be able to record. Primecast's importance rose recently when ABC/Disney/ESPN all applied DRM to their streams. You can watch them in the Xfinity Stream app, but not export them to Channels. NBC-related channels have had the same restriction for a while.

To start learning more on implementation in Sage, go back to the original forum, Hardware Support subforum. That is where it was first documented and figured out. Channels streams become source(s) in OpenDCT which make them accessible to SageTV.

[LoisGNS]

So, I gather that I would need the following:

Channels TVE (though from their site it looks like almost all of the the channels I care about are not in TVE, assuming the list is current & accurate)

PrimeCast to somehow make Channels work with the non-TVE channels from Comcast Stream (which would be most of them). I guess it has a method for me to store my logins for various services and send them out as needed? Somehow an EPG gets put together by Channels - or something else?

Possibly one of the newer HDHRs to deal with ATSC 3.0 and send output to Channels (unless there are alternative ATSC 3.0 tuners that could connect directly to Sage???) - or keep my current setup (several ATSC 1.0 tuners attached to my Sage Server) until ATSC 1.0 goes away, then get those shows another way.

That would let me record whatever I could get via Channels & save to my PC, with Sage at least treating them as imported videos, but which I could presumably run through BMT to treat as recordings.

If I wanted a more direct Sage connection (which would be preferable), add OpenDCT - which I remember reading about and even taking notes on & will look over again - last time I looked at I couldn't make any sense out of how to use it. I have the old forum scraped and saved locally, though it's not all that easy to search. Maybe if I found the right part of the right thread it might start making sense :).

[Ugadata]

I haven't been able to tune any ATSC 3.0 stations through Sage but I believe some Sage users have. The bigger issue is that a majority of the ATSC 3.0 broadcasts have DRM on the streams and Sage will not be able to use it. I believe SiliconDust is trying to get approval but it hasn't happened yet.

I never thought to record through Channels and then just import into Sage but that would work.

I understand you're wanting to use PrismCast but you could just setup Channels to get PlutoTV first just to get things working.

If you want to pull EPG data from Channels, you will also need the XMLImport plugin. It needs to be downloaded and installed manually.

[LoisGNS]

I guess I'd only need EPG data from Channels if I decide to try to integrate Channels with Sage, and that on its own Channels has it's own EPG data. Correct?

I'd forgotten that a big part of the ATSC 3.0 problem is the DRM, so that definitely puts a damper on them unless/until that gets sorted out. I can currently get my cable stuff ok via Comcast & DTAs, but if the locals will need to go through cable too once that kicks in, I won't have enough tuners (and Comcast has been charging through the nose for each DTA). Hence looking for alternatives like Channels.

[KryptoNyte-Sage]

Is there a way I can change the title of this thread to correct the name to PrismCast? I can't seem to figure out something as simple as that today.

[jusjoken]

@KryptoNyte-Sage done

[KryptoNyte-Sage]

Thank you.

[KryptoNyte-Sage]

Sometime in the next couple weeks if I can find the time I'm going to to get node.js installed on my Windows 10 server (runs Channels DVR beside SageTV server) and see if I can get this running in Channels DVR (to pickup the channels that I subscribe to via YoutubeTV but can no longer access via the more simple native TVE interface). Then my intent is to use Channels DVR tuners in SageTV as I have done in the past which solves the channel numbering and guide issues - that takes a little more work and I'll have to get back into the SageTV forum to see how Edwin helped me get that configured in Sage a few years ago. If someone finds a more elegant way to get this integrated into SageTV via OpenDCT then I would definitely look into that.

It appears that Chrome is encoding this on the fly, so I'm not sure how many channels could be recorded simultaneously with the Core i5-11400.

[LoisGNS]

Please write up a description of what you find works for you. It would be great to have some sort of tutorial of sorts for how to get this up & running. My main Sage server is running Windows 8.1, and according to Channels, they support Win 10 and up. I have a secondary server (mostly devoted to PlayOn) that runs Win10 and so could be used for Channels. Integrating with Sage via OpenDCT would be a plus if I could make head or tail out of OpenDCT. For that, I've found some stuff from the old forum, but it's still pretty opaque - primarily in the discussion of opendct.properties. There's a list of what they're supposed to do, but how those work is inadequately explained.

These are particularly unclear to me:
`• upnp.service.configuration.ignore_interfaces_csv=
o Specify the name of interfaces in a comma delimited list of network interfaces as they are named by Java to be ignored when UPnP is performing discovery.
o Ex. upnp.service.configuration.ignore_interfaces_csv=eth2,eth5

• upnp.service.configuration.ignore_local_ip_csv=
o Specify the IP addresses of local interfaces in a comma delimited list to be ignored when UPnP is performing discovery.
o Ex. upnp.service.configuration.ignore_local_ip_csv=10.0.0.21,192.168.1.23
`
In the example for the first one, what are "eth2, eth5" - and how do you know what they are, why they should be ignored, etc.?
In the example for the second one, how do you know which local IPs should be ignored?

Then, if/when you get OpenDCT up & running, what can be done with it before starting to get Channels up & running?

More generally, the info I've saved includes links to the old forum, e.g. "If you're having trouble getting started, many people have found this post by Daweeze very helpful."

I remember a while back there was info on how to convert those URLs to ones that will still work - but I don't remember what the needed transformation was.

[Ugadata]

I am going to move my OpenDCT replies to another post about OpenDCT in this forum .

[KryptoNyte-Sage]

I got this running in Channels DVR this morning. The developer that put this together did a spectacular job, and in a very short period of time. I'm running my Channels DVR and SageTV server on the same computer, Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC (2019) on a Core i5-11400 with 16gb of RAM (everything on SSD's). After installing Node.js (without any add-ons, like Chocolatey?), the PrismCast installation was outlined by the developer, and after reading the 660+ posts one by one in that Channels DVR thread I managed to get it running. This is the first time that I've installed a piece of 'containerized' software, where I type into a command line and it just happens without any prior downloads by me (except of course the install of Node.js). I have to assume that every developer that creates a container software like this must give it a unique name so node.js just knows where to go to get the runtime files - I imagine Docker stuff runs in a similar fashion. Just to be clear, this is PrismCast 1.4.1 install on Windows, not Mac, and not Docker for Windows.

It took me about 30 minutes to muddle through the YouTubeTV (to which I subscribe) channel configuration in the PrismCast webUI, and was a bit confusing as I thought I had filtered all channels by YouTubeTV, but there were some other rogue channels left in the list that wouldn't work and had to be disabled. I'm still not sure if I should be disabling channels in the PrismCast webUI or in Channels DVR instead, but it appears that this will need to be constantly updated as the developer is rapidly improving it almost daily with community input.

After configuring the 'source' in Channels DVR, I did some testing. It can tune channels in about 5 seconds or less which is nothing short of an extraordinary developer achievement in my opinion. Contrary to the handful (and I mean 3 or 4) other users that have installed this with Node.js in native windows without Docker, my experience has been:

1. Everything I've done, from installation to actually using the software has been using Windows RDC on a headless server across my LAN. The developer says this might create issues. I have ordered a 'dummy HDMI dongle' that fools the headless PC into thinking that it has a 4k monitor connected, but doesn't arrive until tomorrow, and I'm not sure it will help with some things I've encountered.
2. I can't seem to install the PrismCast Service. There is some error occurring when I command prompt that installation that I haven't figured it out yet, so I run it in a minimized console browser window and have to manually start it before Channels DVR gets up and running on a PC reboot.
3. My saved show sizes are very small, unlike other users who seem to have very large show file sizes. Because this stripped down version of Chrome is screen capturing this video, Chrome seems to be in control an so fare the small handful of Windows users (like 3 or 4 of us total) haven't been able to figure out why Chrome decides to do different things on different computers. I have PrismCast configured for "720p High," a 12 mbps video bitrate, and a 60 fps frame rate. Per MediaInfo, the resulting file is 720p, about 3.7 mbps, and 30 fps, so go figure. I've tried watching these files via VLC across the LAN, using a FireTV channels client on the LAN, using a FireTV channels client remotely, and with a SageTV HD300, and they are so slightly jerky that I'd almost consider them unwatchable - and I can't explain why.
4. I've tested up to 6 simultaneous PrismCast recordings on the i5-11400 and with nothing else taxing that CPU, it's sitting comfortably between 45% and 55%. In the browser console, it launches 6 separate tabs screen capturing each, so you can kind of see it happening.

If I can't get a smooth file play with this Windows method, I'm seriously considering buying a Mac Mini 4 - PrismCast is that promising. If I can get this running smoothly, I'll start working on pulling the PrismCast tuners into Sage (via Channels DVR).

[KryptoNyte-Sage]

I did finally get the video smooth. It was a mistake to ignore the developers mention that it can't be set up over a Windows Remote Desktop Connection, of which the interface was screwing with Chrome's resolution. Once I hooked up a monitor and reconfigured, I'm now getting smooth 720p video at 30 frames per second (still can't get 60 fps, not sure why yet).

[LoisGNS]

That's excellent news! Can it run via Remote Desktop after the initial setup, or does it always need to be connected to a monitor? And if so, how "connected" is necessary? (My likely server is one I normally access via remote desktop, but it's connected to an HDMI switch which, in the appropriate position, gives it a direct monitor connection. It also has its own keyboard & mouse to use as needed, even though I mostly use remote connection.

Any other helpful hints for Windows 10 setup? I might just give this a try.

[KryptoNyte-Sage]

I'm not going to start using the Channels DVR PrismCast tuners in SageTV just yet, maybe give it a month or so to come around a bit more. I don't know the answer to your question about the monitor yet - I have a 4k 60hz dummy dongle here on my desk. When I have time, I will plug in the dongle and then test with remote connections.

I would get it running in Channels DVR so you have the basic understanding before deciding if/how to get media into Sage. Read the instructions on Github carefully, download Node.js for Windows 64 bit, and inject some basic common sense as you configure PrismCast from the browser UI. After a little fooling, you'll get the hang of it. What streaming service do you subscribe to?

To answer one of your earlier questions, Channels DVR has guide data for most TVE streaming services and pretty much all US OTA services available with a Hdhomerun OTA tuner. That guide data is included in the monthly/yearly fee.

[LoisGNS]

I have several streaming services, including Netflix & Prime (full-time), and Hulu/Disney/HBO when there are Black Friday deals. Also Peacock since my Xfinity cable gives it to me for "free" (after the outrageous prices they charge for one of the lowest-tier plans). I use PlayOn to get shows from all my streamers. They also cover Pluto & Tubi (the on-demand stuff only, not the live stuff). I currently use Sage with several ATSC tuners for the locals I can get via antenna, and have 2 of the std def cable tuners (for which Xfinity now charges way too much) controlled by USBUIRT and going to NTSC tuners. For these, I sometimes have to do with tuning failures when the IR codes don't "catch" corerctly.

Currently, I'm thinking of Channels + PrismCast + possibly OpenDCT to Sage as a way to (1) cut back on the need for mini-cable boxes for any cable stuff I want to capture live and/or aren't available on-demand, and (2) for down the road when ATSC goes away and only encrypted ATSC3 is available. That's when I'd either need to get some tuners that can handle ATSC3 and deal with any DRM - if any such things become available - or use Channels with PrismCast to get what I want from my locals. I guess if I set it up, I'd also look for live stuff of interest on Pluto, etc. I figure it makes sense to start learning about what I can do with Channels etc. before I truly need it in a couple years.

I'd never heard of a 4k 60hz dummy dongle; just looked online and see that they're very cheap - so good to know. Do they need to plug directly into the server, or can you attach them to a HDMI cable that's already attached? (The reason I ask is that the back of my likely server is really hard to get to, but I can reach the end of the cable that currently attaches to the switch that lets it drive a monitor when needed).

[KryptoNyte-Sage]

The pull-down menu in the PrismCast configuration currently shows DirecTV and YoutubeTV, so you may have to subscribe to one of those to stay out of the weeds of a custom configuration entirely. I will try to play with it some more over the next few weeks.

[KryptoNyte-Sage]

Once I got the PrismCast streaming tuners working pretty well in Channels DVR, I was able to get them added to SageTV in about 10 mins. It's working quite well. The only thing that caught me a little off guard with Sage is that whenever the stream has a hiccup, SageTV puts up a yellow warning sign that the signal was lost, then recovers. The PrismCast creator built in recovery intelligence, so I would imagine it's just a second or two of hiccup. Most of the YoutubeTV channels are a stable stream, but once in a while there is one that struggles and yellow flags in Sage are numerous - I'd say this behavior is beneficial more than it is annoying. The user is able to see how many times exactly a stream had an issue in any given recording.

If you are planning to chase this down as a SageTV option, once you have it running in Channels DVR, try to get Channels to record 3 or 4 shows simultaneously and see how well you server hardware handles it. If you still want to pursue it, post here and eventually I'll get some instructions up on how to add to Sage.

[KryptoNyte-Sage]

I will mention one more thing could be intriguing for Sage users. PrismCast has a separate streaming interface using an HDHomerun emulator that was meant for Plex integration per the creator. I have to believe that if PrismCast can be easily added as a tuner in Plex with that emulator that it must also be possible for Sage (without Channels DVR involvement), and if the YoutubeTV guide data is available at Schedules Direct (and I believe it is), then maybe someone smarter than me could check this out (or give me some pointers on how I might test this).

[trk2]

Since opendct uses upnp to discover HDHomeRun devices, my guess is that opendct won't automatically detect the emulator. I'm sure opendct could be configured manually, or configured using the generic http pipe but unfortunately it will be a little more difficult than using an actual HDHomeRun device with opendct.

[KeithAbb0tt]

Not sure I understand why OpenDCT would be needed if PrismCast has an HDHomeRun emulator. Couldn't SageTV directly connect to the HDHomeRun emulator?

[trk2]

Maybe, but not all HDHomeRun tuners worked natively with Sage if my memory is correct. And those that did required the broadcast driver to be configured a certain way which may also be a roadblock. This is all speculation on my part, I would love it if it just worked.

[Ugadata]

How one user fixed the PKILL command for Windows.

From ChannelsDVR Forum for PrismCast:

GTFan
DVR User

1
30d
So I got it working on a headless server, had to disable GPU accel.

Went into C:\Users\David\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\prismcast\dist\browser, edited index.js, added these flags to chrome startup args:

"--disable-gpu",
"--disable-software-rasterizer"
This does not seem to radically increase CPU usage but it's the only way I can get it to work.
>
Also changed the invalid pkill command to "taskkill /F /IM chrome.exe"

But I have a remaining problem, which is that prismcast does not shutdown the running chrome tab that's streaming the video when I exit out of the channel in Channels. It's still streaming (minimized) and I can't find the code that's supposed to shut it down. ffmpeg goes away but the tab doesn't.

[KryptoNyte-Sage]

Thank you for pointing that out! I'll have to start poking around in there this weekend. I'm still not sure how to fix the pkill command failure when I attempt to install the prismcast service from the npm command line.

[KryptoNyte-Sage]

Lois, Channels DVR is well worth the monthly fee, and I think your first month is free if you cancel during that period. You could just play with it for while to get to know it, and be surprised at how intuitive it is to get tuners configured and prioritized. And the remote streaming, it's exceptional to use away from home. You'd have to check the forums over there, but I think that if you subscribe to Xfinity cable already, you may get their streaming TVE stuff with your Xfinity username and password - if so, it's crazy easy to set it up in Channels for TVE. Once you get comfortable with it, you could try to roll PrismCast in, and eventually funnel it to Sage (if you decide to keep using Sage).

[LoisGNS]

I don't think I'd ever leave Sage so long as it keeps working, but if I can get some extra stuff either funneled into it or recorded via other means and importable to Sage, that would be nice. Thing is, my HDHRs are my weakest OTA tuners, set to lowest merit value in Sage, so they rarely get used. That makes them somewhat ripe for trying in Channels, but with the very limited TVE on Xfinity, I think I'd really need Prismcast to get the channels I most need. I'm looking into future-proofing my setup once OTA goes ATSC3 unless they drop the encryption or HDHR can be made to record encrypted streams.

What it could lead to is not dropping Sage, but maybe cutting back on the Xfiity DTAs if I can more reliably and cost-effectively replace their functionality. I think I will try Channels some time soon, just need to come up with a good time after I catch up on various unrelated things. The box I'd most likely start with is my PlayOn server (Win 10, with limited free hard drive space). My Sage server is on Win 8.1 & has lots of space. If it's possible, even if I ran Channels on my PlayOn server, I'd probably want to direct recordings to the Sage server on the same network. Is that possible? I guess an alternative would be to give it a largish external drive

[Ugadata]

Below is snap from a portion of my EPG in Sage. Maybe everybody already understands this but ...........

The red line is where PlutoTV listings stop and the PrismCast listings begin.

Admittedly, the Pluto source does work, the Prismacst source is not working in Sage - but there is a reason for it. I am not using the correct hardware for PrismCast since I am am still playing with it. (Kryptonite-Sage has already proved this process works)

SageTV -> OpenDCT -> ChannelsDVR => (Pluto4Windows + Prismcast)

ChannelsDVR Sources page.

NOTE: PrismCast is working in ChannelsDVR, not as well as I would like but it does work. Currently, it is only in Sage that it does work, but there is a good reason for it.

[KeithAbb0tt]

Thanks for the explanation, I'll be keeping an eye on this to see where it all goes.

[KryptoNyte-Sage]

I'll add that with TVE, we are getting closed captions, but with PrismCast, closed captions aren't currently available.

[LoisGNS]

@Ugadata Could you explain what you mean by:

SageTV -> OpenDCT -> ChannelsDVR => (Pluto4Windows + Prismcast)

Do you mean that Pluto4Windows + Prismcast feeds your ChannelsDVR installation, which feeds OpenDCT, which feeds SageTV? Is this the correct link for Pluto4Windows: https://community.getchannels.com/t/pluto-windows-4c-released/45861

[Ugadata]

@Ugadata Could you explain what you mean by:

SageTV -> OpenDCT -> ChannelsDVR => (Pluto4Windows + Prismcast)

Do you mean that Pluto4Windows + Prismcast feeds your ChannelsDVR installation, which feeds OpenDCT, which feeds SageTV? Is this the correct link for Pluto4Windows: https://community.getchannels.com/t/pluto-windows-4c-released/45861

Yeah, in hindsight, the arrows are pointing in the wrong direction or should be pointing in both directions (communication is actually in both directions).
If you look at the my post with a snapshot of all my sources in Channels (I currently have 4, (PlutoTV, HDHR-Flex4K, DirectTV (TVE), and PrimeCast)). These are brought into Sage through OpenDCT and I use the XMLTV plugin to pull all EPG data from Channels.

[LoisGNS]

Thanks. Having the arrows in the other direction makes more sense. :) I'm thinking of trying to set some of this up after I do my taxes (can only handle so much struggle at a time!). How much disk space do channels, Pluto4Windows, and Prismcast add to your primary hard drive? On the box I was thinking of using (my PlayOn server), the C drive has only about 20gb free, so I'd be sending recordings to a secondary HDD or an external USB drive. Can Channels, etc. also be installed on a secondary drive or they insist on being on the C drive? I have a little over a TB on a secondary HDD and of course as much as I decide to give it if I add a USB drive. Alternatively, I have a new box that I did a basic Windows 11 install on, but haven't had time to fine-tune it or install much else. It's intended as a likely successor PlayOn box. I can't use the current main Sage server because it's on Windows 8.1.