Joe User wrote:
> Robert Cameron wrote:
> > Timeshifting has absolutely nothing to do with playing a Recording.
>
> That is not completely true if you are trying to do timeshiftwhile recording. ;) But in this case it appears he hasn't even been able to enable timeshift, so that is not the issue.
Not quite. In Kodi, if you choose a program that it recording in the guide, Kodi will ask you if you wish to start from the beginning. If you say Yes, it will play back the recording and use the recording stream, which does not use the timeshift buffer. If you say No, Tvheadend will open a new stream that does use the timeshift buffer; however this is not really a recording in progress now, but a separate stream.
So, I can't see how playing a recording in progress has anything to do with a timeshift buffer.
Also, it seems that the OP is asking 2 separate questions:
# Why does Kodi seem to lose its connection to Tvheadend while playing back a recording in progress
# Why does the timeshift setting not seem to remain set
For the latter, I don't have an answer other than where you are trying to save your timeshift buffer to may be a path the doesn't exist or the Tvheadend user does not have permissions for. For the former, it might be a bandwidth issue because USB and networking are all using the same bus which may be causing a bottleneck. (This is assuming you are storing the recordings on a USB or network drive, ...)