Recordings retention policy

Lothar Albrecht

Hello, I wonder why when I do schedule a recording through Kodi the retention policy is 3 month but when I schedule a record through the tvheadend webpage there´s no retention policy (which is what I want cause I set the "keep file checkbox" to forever).

Why is there a difference and how can I prevent files from being deleted after the given time of three month. I´m using Kodi 18.9 from Libreelec 9.2.6, TVheadend Version is 4.2.8-36 Tvh-addon v9.2.0.123

Thanks in advance

Lothar Albrecht

Memo to myself, the recording retention policy info is stored in the removal flag for each file in /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.tvheadend42/dvr/log/
What I do is use a small script that changes the according flag. I do that once a night via cronjob, problem solved for me.

Be aware that changes require a reboot to at least make them visible, not sure if the log entry would be removed without reboot.

Anyway, afaik the file itself wouldn´t get removed, tvheadend just removes the entries from the recordings list.

Make sure that the path fits your environment! A Backup before trying is recommended!



#!/bin/bash
cd /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.tvheadend42/dvr/log
for TheFile in *; do ToReplace=`cat "$TheFile" | grep removal | awk '{$1=$1};1' | cut -d '"' -f2-`; sed -i 's/'"$ToReplace"'/removal\"\:\ 0,/' "$TheFile"; done

But I found the appropriat setting, it´s under Kodi, Settings TV and PVR advanced Timer settings...