Two Windows 8 WMC PCs & one tuner card

[sgibbers17]

I have two Windows 8 WMC PCs. The one that has the tuner is my server witch is in my basement home theater. The WMC PC is in my upstairs living room. Is there a way to tell the server to record a show with the upstairs PC. This needs to be simple because the wife needs to be able to easily record shows and watch the recorded shows. The TV will be hooked directly up to the antenna so the I do not need to stream live TV just be able to use the guide to record a show just like it was on the server with the tuner card.

[barnabas1969]

It depends on the tuner. If it's a networked tuner like the Silicondust HD HomeRun, then yes. If it's a Ceton InfiniTV (PCIe, USB, or Ethernet), then yes.

[sgibbers17]

It depends on the tuner. If it's a networked tuner like the Silicondust HD HomeRun, then yes. If it's a Ceton InfiniTV (PCIe, USB, or Ethernet), then yes.

Can you please elaborate? I have a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250.

I was able to share my recording to the other PC but I can not tell the server to record.

Another question how do I delete a shared recording without deleting it off the host PC?

[jerryt]

I don't know if this works in windows 8, but

This "Remote Potato Addin" http://www.thegreenbutton.tv/forums/vie ... ?f=9&t=523
allows you to access the TV guide on another WMC computer to schedule recordings on that computer.

[Shackleford]

Or Ceton's My Media Center app.

[adam1991]

What you need is a Windows Media Extender.

[jerryt]

XBMC Client Frontend for your WMC server computer

Think of it as a XBMC WMC Extender

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Add-on:PVR.WMC

[adam1991]

That does nothing for sharing the guide and the content in an integrated way that WMC does.

He needs to accept that what he wants to do is incompatible with the way he thinks he wants to do it. Then he needs to figure out *how* to do it--extender--and execute on that.

Of course, he could go down other paths, such as get a network tuner and share those to multiple PCs...oh, wait, he wouldn't have integrated guide and schedule and recorded shows at all, he'd still have independent DVRs that don't talk to or integrate with one another.

[jerryt]

That does nothing for sharing the guide and the content in an integrated way that WMC does.

It uses the guide and content from the WMC host (Server), Doesn't do protected content...

[.Nico]

You need DVBLogic software with DVBLink Connect! Server

[4Crawler]

You need DVBLogic software with DVBLink Connect! Server

I am running this and it does work, you'll need the server package, a tuner package (like TV Source) and the connect server on the server PC and then the Media Center client on the other PC. Then you set up the tuner on the PC with the tuner card and then in the other PC, select the DVBlink tuners and all those settings from the tuner PC show up on the other PC. If the server PC is on all the time or is set to wake up on network activity, all should work as-is. If you have the server PC set to sleep and only have the wake-on-lan set up, then you'll need to run a wake-on-lan command prior to starting WMC to wake up the server (one line command, can be put in a batch file to do that and start WMC).