Can only record to default path; have mounted shared network drive but TVHeadend won't record there

David Lowe

Version of TVHeadend is 4.2.8-34~g24a2f59e9 (fresh install following https://thepihut.com/blogs/raspberry-pi-tutorials/how-to-stream-digital-tv-with-the-raspberry-pi-tv-hat method)

Running on Raspberry Pi Debian 10 with Raspberry Pi TVHat

Fresh install as above. I can record to the default path

/home/hts

without difficulty

I've followed various online suggestions and added

//192.168.2.16/TVHRecord /home/pi/NASTVrecord cifs guest,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

to my /etc/fstab file

but when I change the recording path to

/home/pi/NASTVrecord

then I just get an error (red exclamation mark in the "Details" column of the EPG) after a few seconds.

I suspects it's a permissions related thing. ICAN** delete or modify any of the existing files in the mounted share from the pi desktop.

Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.

davep

Tvheadend runs as user hts, so hts needs to be able to read/write files on your network share.

Hiro Protagonist

Check your /etc/passwd file. The UID of the user TVH is running as should match the UID you're using in your fstab entry.

David Lowe

Thank you for your replies...

Still not quite there, and have possibly gone backwards as I now get an error message from the pi desktop

mount: /home/pi/NASTVrecord: operation permitted for root only.

whenever I try and view my shared drive!

The relevant line of of /etc/passwd file is

hts:x:115:124::/home/hts:/bin/bash

so I have changed my /etc/fstab entry to


//192.168.2.16/TVHRecord /home/pi/NASTVrecord cifs guest,uid=115,gid=124 0 0

The Samba share on Open Media Vault is set up for "Guests allowed".

davep

Reset the 'uid' value in your fstab entry to 1000, and set the 'gid' value to the number for the 'hts' entry in /etc/group. Then change the permissions on your NAS recording directory to allow group 'hts' to write there -


chown -R pi:hts /home/pi/NASTVrecord
chmod -R 775 /home/pi/NASTVrecord

G E

Hello

I created an account because I have the exact same issue.
I can record to the RPI's local path (moved it from /home/hts to /home/pi/NASTVrecord) but not to my Synology NAS (/nas/Downloads/NASTVrecord).
I even tried to keep those folder names that were chosen above to eliminate the possibility of having permission issues.

Unfortunately I can't get it to send the recordings to my NAS.

My fstab input is:


//192.168.1.131/nas/Downloads/NASTVrecord        /home/pi/NASTVrecord cifs guest,uid=1000,gid=124 0 0 (my hts is 124 too according to  /etc/group)

When I run mount -a I don't get any errors which hopefully means that the mount point works.

In my Synology folder share settings I have granted rw permissions to ''guest'' and I also created another user ''hts'' with rw permissions.
What am I possibly doing wrong?

Chris Scherer

Try setfacl to set the permission for user hts.

Example:

setfacl -R -m u:hts:rxw /home/pi

and same on your NAS via ssh.

Take care, on your NAS beginns the path with /volumeX/......

with setfacl you will ADD the user hts to the Access Control Lists.

You will find some examples on the internet.

ACL doesn't touch the chmod-mask.

Hint: Synology use the same proceder for the User-Rights in the DiskStations.

AND:

tvheadend uses allways the user "hts". Your mounting point is set for user "guest". RPI take a call to "guest"... "guest" answers with: Yeas... here i'am! Who are you? ... Answer form RPI: I'am "hts"... the end of the call ;-( "guest" talks only whith "guest"

G E

Thanks for your reply.
It looks way more complicated than what I'm used to though.

G E

Alright I've made some progress.

Nas is now mounted on /home/pi/NASTVrecord as within TVheadend GUI I can see on top a massive space in TB which is clearly my NAS.

Fo certain, the problem is with permissions now. When I move files from the NAS side to NASTVrecord folder I can then ''ls'' and see them on the Pi side.
It's probably the other way around that is not permitted - the Pi to write on that folder.