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Added by Perry Mitchell about 10 years ago

I have tvheadend running on a TBSDTV MOI tuner box that has no local storage. I access the networked signals from several different computers all running XBMC. At the moment each computer records locally but I cannot see any way to change the destination. Most of the computers have a separate 'Media' HDD that I would like to direct the recordings to. Is the Record Destination shown in the browser for tvheadend universal for all clients?
Please advise?


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RE: Record destination - Added by K Shea about 10 years ago

As far as I can tell the answer to that is yes, there is one destination for recordings that is used by all clients. In fact I would love to know how you are getting the XBMC clients to record locally.

I don't know about the original TBS MOI, but at least with the MOI+ it is possible to add an external SATA drive and use that for storage, as described in this review:

http://freetoairamerica.wordpress.com/2014/09/06/review-of-the-tbs-moi-dvb-ss2-satellite-tv-linux-server-a-bit-like-a-hdhomerun-but-for-free-to-air-satellite-signals-2/#storage

HTH

RE: Record destination - Added by Perry Mitchell about 10 years ago

Well the point is that it cannot be on my MOI (original version). I have tried it on two Windows machines running XBMC and both recorded and played back but in both cases I couldn't find where they recorded! They both have small SSD system drives that also hold the apps, and then separate 'media' spinners. I'm guessing the short test recordings are buried in the SSD somewhere.
I've tried to set the TVHeadend browser I/F to record to my NAS drive, but I'm struggling with the protocol and perhaps with permissions. There is certainly no sign of the recordings there. It's all a bit of a mystery! I have had long running queries on several forums but you are the first bite I have had!

RE: Record destination - Added by Prof Yaffle about 10 years ago

If you played back through the tvheadend addon (i.e. through Live TV -> Recordings) then you were streaming from the backend. In other words, no local storage was harmed in the making of those recordings.

tvh can't record to those local discs as it knows nothing about those systems; XBMC/Kodi doesn't have the ability to record either, unless you're using some addon to intercept the stream (e.g. in the same style as YouTube downloaders).

I'd persevere with the central recording to NAS. You may have to mount the NAS export on your MOI box in some way - I doubt (I haven't checked) that tvheadend can cope with an smb:// or nfs:// style address, so it needs to refer to a local path that in turn uses smbd or NFS to connect to the NAS.

RE: Record destination - Added by Perry Mitchell about 10 years ago

Thanks for that. The MOI has only 256MB of flash storage (I don't have an SD card inserted) for the whole operating system, but I suppose it is possible that I recorded a few seconds there.
I need to have some means of accessing the MOI (backend) linux remotely so that I could mount the NAS etc. Any ideas what I would use for that? I have Windows, Linux and even a Mac computer on the same network.

RE: Record destination - Added by Prof Yaffle about 10 years ago

I'd guess at ssh from Linux (and probably MacOS) or putty from Windows. Either way should drop you to a command prompt - you may need to do some digging to get the root username/password.

A quick Google suggests there are numerous posts on tbsdtv.com about how to mount a remote NFS share. Once that's done, it'll appear as a local directory and you can just set the path in the webui.

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