Tvheadend

Each recording has a log file which includes the full filename(s) of the recording, these are usually in /home/hts/.hts/tvheadend/dvr/log/ though your distribution might have put them somewhere else. Edit these files (while TVHeadend is not running) to correct the path, the recordings should then be visible when you restart TVH.

There are only the .ts files for each recording. Where will I find these files? There is no user hts, only one called tvheadend and there is no subdirectory .hts

Try these commands:

find / -regex ".*/dvr/log" -print

or

locate dvr/log

I have now found the log files - they are in the folder /var/lib/tvheadend/config/dvr/log

I have discovered in another post a script that will supposedly perform the re-linking (importall.sh) at https://tvheadend.org/attachments/8392 but when I run this, it merely presents a warning "find: warning: '-name' matches against basenames only, but the given pattern contains a directory seperator ('/'), thus the expression will evaluate to false all the time. Did you mean '-wholename'?" and the script stops.

I am stumped.

That script is to create new log files for recordings that don't already have them, all you need to do is to modify the existing logs. Try this:

0. Stop TVHeadend

1. Backup all the log files to a safe place

2. Copy this script somewhere (NOT the log files directory!)

#!/bin/sh
OLDDIR=/video/tvheadend
NEWDIR=/my/new/dir
LOGS=/var/lib/tvheadend/config/dvr/log 

for f in $LOGS/*
do
        perl -i -p -e "s|$OLDDIR|$NEWDIR|" $f
done

3. Edit the script for the old and new recording locations

4. Run the script

5. Check the files have been updated and restart TVHeadend.

I was not able to run this script effectively, so reluctantly uninstalled and reinstalled TVHeadend. Now I have a properly working installation routing the output files to the correct directory. I was not able to recover the previously recorded programs, but I can live with that.