The List of all SageTV 7 Plugins

There are a lot of SageTV HTPC plugins for SageTV 7 available already.  I just compiled a list of all of them along with a short description of what each one does.  Each of these plugins are easily available and installed using the SageTV Plugin Manager new to version 7.

I’m working on a big update to the Ultimate SageTV Guide that will be helpful to new SageTV users as well as long-time SageTV enthusiasts alike.  Stay tuned.

Below is a comprehensive list of all SageTV 7 plugins as of September 12, 2010.  When available (if none is available there will be no hyperlink), there will be a link to the plugin spotlight article providing more in-depth information about the plugin including screen-shots and sometimes demo videos.  Also included will be a link to the forum thread when available.

First off is the list of general SageTV 7 plugins.  These plugins typically add functionality in some way to SageTV:

• Commercial Detector - One-stop, simple commercial detection - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Custom Events - Adds custom events for notifications system such as recording space low - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• External Status Socket Interface Plugin - Plugin provides external interface for LCD Smartie Plugin to retrieve the current SageTV status - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• GKusnick's Studio Plugin Framework - A tool for SageTV plugin creators - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• GKusnick's Studio Tools - Another plugin for SageTV plugin creators - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• InControl JAR - A required plugin for the InConrol UI Mod - Home Automation - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• InfoPopup / Caller ID - CallerID and Messaging dialog prompts for SageTV - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Jetty Web Server - A required plugin for most SageTV web applications including Web Server and Moblie Web Server - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Media Streaming Services – A plugin that goes with the new SageMobile.  This streaming plugin has no functionality at this time but will in the future.
• Metadata Tools for SageTV - Web Interface - The web interface fo Batch Metadata Tools Plugin - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Ortus Core API – Used for other plugins – no need to install by itself
• Ortus MQ – Used for other plugins – no need to install by itself
• Phoenix Core Services - Handles metadata/fanart lookups from IMDB, TMDb and TVDb - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• PlayOn for SageTV: Netflix/Hulu Queue Importer - Imports content from your Netflix & Hulu queue into SageTV as imported videos and/or TV. Requires PlayOn - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Podcast Recorder – A behind-the-scenes plugin (dependancy).  To install go to “UI Mod’s” and install Podcast Recorder UI
• Sage Artifact Delete (SAD) - Listens for commercial skip file leftovers like edl, properites files, log files etc and deletes them after media file is deleted - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Sage Job Queue (SJQ) - A powerful plugin that fires off various "tasks" at different times. Can be used to power commercial detection and much more - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Sage Recording Extender (SRE) - Watches for live events and extends the recording when necessary - mostly for sporting events that run past scheduled end time. - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• SageAlert - Listens for SageTV events & sends notifications to e-mail, text message, Twitter & other platforms. There is a free & paid version - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• SageMyMovies API – A “dependant” plugin for MyMovies – install directly from “UI Mod” section
• SageTCPServer – A TCP interface used by MLSageTV, taSageTV, tiSageTV and CQC Sage MediaServer/Player
• SageTV Mobile Web Interface - A mobile web interface for SageTV that allows for controlling your SageTV server as well as streaming to iOS devices like the iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• SageTV Web Interface - The main SageTV web interface for SageTV - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Sagex-services - SageTV Remote API Services - HTPP & RMI services for SageTV including JSON/JSONP & xml formats - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Scrobbler - A last.fm scrobbler plugin - trains Last.fm to learn what music you like based on what you listen to - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• TVBrowser-API – A dependant plugin for TV Browser – Install from the “UI Mod” section
• TWiT.TV Video Podcasts – Add TWiT.TV video podcasts to your list of online services menu in SageTV.  This Week in Tech, Windows Weekly, MacBreak Weekly etc.  Forum Thread
• Web Feed Encoder (WFE) - Server - For web-based streaming TV & radio on SageTV extenders - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread

Next are the User Interface Modification Plugins.  These change the way the user interface looks or acts in some way.  It can be as simple as changing the layout or look of the UI or sometime change the way functions are accessed:

• 24 Hour Clock - Display times in 24 hour format - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Adobe Photoshop Elements Catalog Viewer - Browse Photoshop Elements Catalogs from SageTV - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• All Titles for Video Menu - Include all imported videos for titles option in video menu - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Always Show SubMenus - Changes main menu default to always show submenu of focused item instead of defaulting to most recent view - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Audio Stream Toggle - Allows for switching between audio streams during vide playback - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Auto Aspect Ratio - Allows for switching between aspect ration automatically based on airing title, channel, recording device & other parameters - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Automatic Aspect Ratio Mode Switcher - Another version of the Auto Aspect Ratio plugin above - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Basic Sleep Timer - Adds a sleep timer to options menu. Set up to automatically shut off after certaim amount of time - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Change Channel to Record - Allows user to change the default action when there is an upcoming recording causing a conflict - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Commercial Detector UI - For use with the CommercialDetector plugin - makes the "Run Comskip" buttons compatible - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Comskip Playback - A simple UI modification that adds support for reading edl or txt files generated by comskip or showanalyzer - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• CPU Meter - A simple CPU meter showing how hard your CPU is working at any given time - from the SageTV menu - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Custom Main Menu - Enable or disable any of the main menu items in SageTV - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• CVF - Custom Video Folder - Video folder enhancements including adding season & episode number to description - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Display Aspect Ratio Switcher - Provides for auto-display aspect ration switching for people who have multiple monitors with different aspect ratios - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Display Recordings Menu On Startup - Brings up Recordings Menu instead of SageTV main menu at startup - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• DVB / TTX Subtitles Playback - Always playback of DVB and Teletext subtitles - for recording made with DVBViewer Recorder or LM DVB Smart Recorder - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Enable/Disable Favorites - Allows series favorites to be enabled and disabled without removing the favorite from your list - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Encoder Names - Display friendly names in the Parallel Scheduled Recordings View - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• EPG Back-On-Guide - Changes behavior of Guide button when in EPG so that it goes back to previous screen - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• External Apps - Adds button on video options menu to run any external application - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Favorite Excluder (Anti-Favorites) - Allows user to mark Intelligent Recordings and Favorite Recordings as "Watched" & "DontLike" by defining special "Anti-Favorites" - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Favorites Filter - A way to filter viewing of favorites three levels. So you only see "level 1" favorites first, then hit the 2 button to see "level 2" etc - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Fuzzy’s Malore Tweaks – A collection of UI adjustments for the Malore menus including banners in the show list, remove banner from the description panel.
• Guide on top, info and preview on bottom - Moves the EPG to the top of the screen and info and preview window at the bottom of the screen - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Hide EPG scroll bar - Hides the program guide scroll bar - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Hide Exit on Main Menu - Removes exit from the main menu - since it's not needed with extenders - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Hide F/A/M/W/HD/1 Icons in Lists - Hides the icons in lists to unclutter the UI - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Hide Footer Panel - Hides the footer panel to unclutter the UI - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Hide Options Menu when tuning a Live TV show. - Hides the options menu when tuning a live TV show - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Hide Volume Area from OSD - Hides the volume icon and slider from the on screen display - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• IMDB Search - Search for, display and save information from IMDB (Internet Movie Database) - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Import/Export Channel Lineup - Import your custom channel lineup. Export your "enabled" channels from a lineup - useful when switching to new HTPC - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• InControl (Connects SageTV/HomeSeer) - Integrate your Home Automation controls with SageTV's UI - for HomeSeer Home Automation Software - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• InfoPopup STVi - Caller ID and Messaging dialog for SageTV - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Install Disk Usage - Adds a small bar graph in the menu indicating amount of drive space remaining on SageTV Install drive - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Intelligent Suggestions - Provides suggestions for upcoming shows based on your viewing behaviour - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• J. River Media Center / Jukebox Explorer - A J River Media Center plugin - uses JRMC behind the scenes for your music and other media within SageTV - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Java Heap Monitor - Shows how much Java Heap Space available - if it's running low it could affect SageTV responsiveness - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Left-align EPG time header - Modifies EPG time header from center-align to left-align - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• MiniGuide - A miniguide based on default UI style - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Move Imported TV Shows to SageTV Recordings - Will move TV Shows you've imported into SageTV over to SageTV Recordings list and out of Videos - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Movie Showtimes - View Movie times and movie trailers for movies now showing and coming soon - based on your location - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Movie Trailers - Adds a movie trailers button to the video options dialog. View movie trailers for any of your movie collection - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Multi Function Stop - When you hit stop during media playback, asks if user wants to resume, restart from beginning, delete etc - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Multispeed Skip – Transforms the Fast Forward & Rewind buttons so they work more like VCR ff/rew buttons.  Gives continuous FF/REW functionality with speeds varying from 2x to 128x.  Forum Thread
• Music Tweaks - Some modifications to the music browser - recognize the ID3Tag for browsing multi-disc albums - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• My TV for V7 - Adds a MyTV Menu showing last 4 recent recordings, 4 upcoming recordings - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• No Default Action in Main Menu - Changes navigation in main menu to always expand the submenu instead of jumping to the last action - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Ortus Trailers - Download, browse and view Apple Movie Trailers - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• OSD Clock and Play Time - Displays clock and how long current media has been playing - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• OSD Enhancements -
• Phoenix Fanart for Malore Menus - Uses Phoenix API to display Fanart on Malore Menus - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Phoenix Fanart for SageTV V7 - Uses Phoenix API to display Fanart for default SageTV UI - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Picasa Web Albums - Browse Picasa Web Albums in SageTV - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Pixel Test - Test for dead pixels on your display - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• PlayOn For SageTV - Browse and play back online streaming content from Netflix, Huiu, Amazon and more when you have PlayOn installed - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Plucky's Menu Mod - Modified Horizontal Main Menu - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Podcast Recorder UI - Manually record podcasts or select podcasts as favorites to record automatically when a new podcast episode is available.  Forum Thread
• Podcast View – Adds a filtered view for downloaded podcasts in your library.  Adds a new menu item under videos and a new selection item in the options panel in videos menu  Forum Thread
• Read, Write and Edit Metadata - Display info from .my files in recording and video detail views. Also create .my and .properties files - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Recently Watched - Keep track of shows you've recently watched - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Recipe (Text File) Viewer - Browse, search, view and print recipes as text files - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Recordings List: Show original airdates – Shows the recordings original airdate in the recordings list
• Remove Padding-Back2Back Manual Recordings Conflicts - Automatically resolve back-to-back manual recording conflicts caused by "padding" settings - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Replace Index Numbers with Season/Episode in Recordings Screen – Replaces the numbers in the recordings group information with the season and episode number
• Resolve LiveTV Conflict - Allows user to set a default action when a liveTV channel is tuned and all tuners are currently in use - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Restart Sage from Setup Menu - Restart SageTV Server from the setup menu of any SageTV device - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Restrict Access - Prevent unwanted tampering by password protecting most functions with SageTV - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Sage Recording Extender UI - View, add and change Sage Recording Extender Monitoring Status - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• SageMyMovies - A feature-rich movie organization plugin that brings in data from MyMovies metadata and fanart database - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Save EPG channel selection on Exit - Remembers channel you last viewed in program guide and takes you to that channel in guide next time you view the EPG - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Season and Episode Number in Details – Adds TV show season and episode number to detailed info
• Season-Episode display for Malore Recordings - Display season-episode number in Malore Recordings Menu - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Select and Batch Delete - Select and delete multiple recordings in "batch" method - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Signal Strength on OSD - Show the TV Tuner signal strength - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• SlimPlayer Internet Radio - Play internet radio from Squeezbox server. Includes Pandora, LastFM, Rhapsody, Slacker etc - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Stock Manager - View stock quotes from Yahoo finance - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• STVI Configurator - For SageTV developers - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Tool Assisted Speedrun Videos Online Services - Browse and watch the tool assisted speedruns from TASVideos.org - in case you have no idea what this is: Game Movies - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• TV Browser – Combines Imported and Recorded TV into a single TV list.  Sorts TV according to season & episode as available.
• TwiederTweaks - A large collection of configurable User Interface Tweaks too long to list - definitely worth checking out - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Ughs Simplified Recording + Schedule Menu - Removes extra info from the recordings menu and creates a schedule menu at the top - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• Upcoming Movies - A default style upcoming movies panel - selectable under EPG or Schedule Recordings pages - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread
• VideoOut Tools for HD100/200 - Adds a popup menu to choose the output resolution of the extender interactively - Plugin Spotlight - Forum Thread

To check out all of the custom themes available of SageTV, head to this article.

This list is accurate as of 11/19/2010.  I’ll work to keep it up-to-date and will be adding links to “Plugin Spotlight” articles going more in-depth with some of the more popular plugins for SageTV7.