Posts by pchristy

Final update!

All sorted now! It was a permissions issue on my NAS. Because it worked OK from my other computer (running Slackware), I thought it would be OK on Libreelec. However, Libreelec seems to use a different UID for the user from Slackware, which is what caused my confusion. This was aggravated by me creating the "Recordings" sub-folder from within Slackware, which only gave the prime user read/write privileges. As the prime user under Libreelec uses a different UID, it couldn't write to that folder, although it could write to the folder above!

I set the path to the "Recordings" folder in TVHeadend.

All now works fine!

Thanks to Elonesna for pointing me toward the sample scripts for mounting NFS shares, which got me on the road to success!

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Pete

First of all, apologies for the delayed reply! I've had family visiting, and having small grand-children running around is not conducive to concentration!

Thanks for he pointers! I've managed to enable an NFS mount of my NAS drive, and I can playback the contents. What I haven't managed to do is record to the NAS drive.

I can see an option in TVHeadend to set the record directory, and I have pointed this to the NAS, but my recordings still appear in the recordings folder on the SD card!

Where is the option to re-direct recordings?

UPDATE: Looks like this is a permissions issue on my NAS. I can make Libreelec record into the top level folder, but not the recordings sub-folder. More research needed on my part...

Cheers,

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Pete

Hardware: Pi 400 System: Libreelec 10.0.2 TvHeadend 4.2.8-36 TvH addon 10.0.0.125

I have a NAS (Pi 4) which I use for software and video storage. It is accessible either via NFS or SMB. In the video folder, I have a "recordings" sub-folder, which I would like to use for off-air recordings.

I can playback files on the NAS without problem, but so far, I've failed miserably to find out how to record to it! I'm not sure if this is a Libreelec issue, or if it is Kodi or TVHeadend - or a combination of any of these.

Google has only found advice that is for older installations. I can make this work easily under Slackware/Kaffeine, but that results in file name corruption on HD recordings, hence trying Libreelec. The advice I've found seems horrendously complex, and I can't believe there isn't a simple solution.

Any pointers gratefully received!

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Pete

Thanks for the input, folks! Yes, I should have guessed there was a hidden folder somewhere (.kodi).

GH: Yes, thanks for that, and that is what I have done in the first instance. However it still kept trying to scan transponders that no longer exist, and I ended up disabling everything to do with automatic scans to stop it! That's fine, but of course, now it will no longer auto update!

JO: Thanks for pointing me to that. TVHeadend does offer the option of pointing to a scanfile in its menus, but it obviously either didn't like the file type I use for other apps, or I got the addressing sytntax wrong, as I couldn't get it to work! The dvb-scan folder contains a lot of individual scan files, rather than one big one, and uses a different format to my usual ones. This is probably why pointing to my own scanfile didn't work!

The problem is that all the data currently shipping with dvb apps is years out-of-date, and the files from which they were created no longer seem to exist! The only app I can fine that will do a full scan and include dvbt-2 is w_scan2, but that saves its info in an obsolete format and has to be upgraded (dvbV3 to dvbV5), which seems to lose some info in the process!

Nonetheless, I'm now doing a full scan of my local transmitter, and hopefully, I'll have a suitable file to replace te obsolete one in an hour or so. (Full scan takes a LONG time!)

Thanks again both of you for your very helpful answers.

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Pete

New user, but old hand with Linux on x86(-64).

I've just done a fresh install of Libreelec-10.0.2 (+Kodi) on a Pi 400. I've installed Tv headend for PVR/DVB, with which I am moderately familiar.

My problem: The scan data for UK transmitters is hopelessly out of date. I know the settings for my local transmitter, and know how to edit this on my desktop / laptops. The problem is that I cannot figure out how to edit it in Libreelec! The "Just Enough" OS does not appear to have a file manager or text editor - that I can find, anyway! I can't edit the file directly on the sd card, as it all appears to be contained in a squashfs file system! I've tried ssh-ing in to the system, but despite having turned the password off, it doesn't want to let me in!

There must be a way of doing this - its a simple enough task - but it has so far defeated me.

Any hints, pointers,etc, gratefully received!

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Pete