Recording problems

Al Wl

Dear all,

I have problems with my recordings. I can only record into /home/hts/.hts/tvheadend/dvr, but not on my NTFS HDD. I have TVHeadend running on UBUNTU on a Pi4, and I already changed the user to run TVHeadend to root in the config file to avoid any permissions issues, but no luck. With the HDD set as storage, any scheduled recordings fail with the error "file missing". If I choose another directory on my SD card like /home/pi/Documents, the error message is "file not created".
Do you have some suggestions for me ?

Ron L

I suspect that TVHeadend will not run as root. Many applications like this have a safety check to ensure that they are not run as root.

You would have to check the permissions on your NTFS mount and make sure that they are sufficient for write access. Often just having the hts user and the HDD mount in the same group will suffice. Having both in the "Video" group for example.

Al Wl

I also tried running TVHeadend with my regular user, i.e. the user that mounts the drives. Same problem...
I also tried chmod 777 on the HDD, but then I read somewhere that this does not work with NTFS.
I had a working installation on my Ubuntu 32bit, but then I had to change to 64bit, and now I am having this issue.
Last option would be using a 400GB SDcard and recording on /home/hts/.hts/tvheadend/dvr.

Ron L

Check that tvheadend is running as the user you wish. Perhaps the wrong config file is being edited and the user is not changing ie. still running as user "hts". When changing TVH user you must also make sure it's ".hts" config directory has read and write permission for new user or move it into new user's home directory.

I never use NTFS so can't help with it's permissions or lack thereof.

ps aux | grep tvheadend

Saen Acro

Convert NTFS to exFAT

Very simple way to mount is to use Webmin.