Not seeing all my recordings

Wes S

I'm only seeing a couple weeks of recordings using the the web interface to tvheadend or kodi. If I go to the directory where the files are stored I see a couple months worth of recordings.

The rp4 that is running tvheadend has been up for 34 days.

Retention is set to forever.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Hiro Protagonist

Try grepping for the filename of one of the files that's not showing up in your dvr/logs dir:


grep  /var/spool/pvr/Restored/Restored2020-03-13.mkv .hts/tvheadend/dvr/log/*

Obviously you'll need to modify the paths to suit your setup. You should get a hit, otherwise it means some of your log files have been deleted.

If so, it is possible to re-import your recordings to TVH, but you will lose meta-data, as that's stored in the logs.

Wes S

Yes, there is a correlation between missing files and missing logs.

This is tvheadend on a rpi4. I figured out this morning that my powered usb hub my hdd is plugged into is keeping my pi from rebooting properly. I'm thinking bad things happened the back when I rebooted it.

I added a check for the drive being mounted from this thread:

https://tvheadend.org/d/6485-recordings-disappearing-after-rebooting-tvh-box-ubuntu

I'll do some googling now on how to add/import the missing files.

In the future I'll tell the pi to stop and turn off power to pi and usb hub. I'll look for a cable that doesn't back feed power.

Thanks,

Wes

Hiro Protagonist

There's an import script in this thread: https://tvheadend.org/d/7153-piping-mkv-file-help