Tvheadend

the permission

OpenELEC:~/recordings # ls -laF
total 1933128
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root             0 May 10 00:33 ./
drwxr-xr-x   24 root     root          4096 May  5 16:50 ../
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root             0 May  5 19:44 Comedy Central/
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root     1979518226 Apr 28 01:12 HBO Signature HD-Game of Thrones 5ª Temp. Ep. 2.mkv*
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root             0 May  5 21:56 HBO2/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root             0 May  9 14:26 HBO2-HD/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root             0 May 10 00:33 Telecine-Action-HD/
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root             0 May  6 18:52 series/
OpenELEC:~/recordings #

I don't run tvheadend on OpenElec, so I'm not 100% how it works. However, if the file is there and readable (which it appears to be) but not showing in the log, then I'd look towards:

1. The log file not being there (e.g. do you have a very short retention period set in the web interface?), or

2. The log file being there but not readable (which shouldn't be the case since OE runs everything under root)

The problem is that I can't tell you where the log files are...! On Ubuntu/debian, they're in /home/hts/.hts/tvheadend/dvr/log. Depending on version, you should see either a list of numbered files or UUID-identified files, each of which contains a record of an upcoming or complete recording. Check that there's one for the missing recording (just grep for "Game\ of\ Thrones" and then explore any files that match).

The fact you say "some of my recordings" makes me pause; if it was "all of them" then I'd put money on the retention period, but check that anyway: web interface, Configuration -> Recording -> DVR Profiles -> DVR Log Retention Time. It may be that you have multiple profiles, and one has a retention time of, say, 0 while another has a larger number, so only the recordings from the first of these disappear, while recordings made with the second still show.

First, Thanks for trying to help me:

On retention is configured for: 999999

I found this log will that help?

http://pastebin.com/nwhTqJpF

pictures of my recording setup.

Hmm, you have many errors in that log that may or may not be relevant, I'm not sure. OE has a particular way of working sometimes.

I note you have two profiles - the default and 'Series'. Which are you using for the 'disappearing' recordings? Do both have basically the same settings?

Re: the log file, I'd like to see a log of a recording - something that works, something that doesn't.

Is there any other pattern you can see - free-to-air versus descrambled/CWC, for example?

How to generate a log only recording?

  All profiles happens, however in random order.

I will have to do more testing to look for a pattern ...

The same log file, but all I can see in there are records of you tuning to the channels to watch them - not record from them.So make some recordings until you have at least one that's failed, then let's take a look.

There's more debugging we can do, but let's get back to that if it's not obvious initially.

"All profiles happens, however in random order" doesn't sound right. I'd like to know what the two profiles' settings are, and whether they're different - and, more importantly, whether your disappearing recordings only happen on one particular profile...

Some recordings typically occur in both profiles.
   Porrem other simply does not show.
There is no way to import the recordings?
Programmed recording of two films, one on each profile. I will test and then send you the log.

The only way to import recordings is to re-create the log file AFAIK. So we also still need to find the equivalent of /dvr/log in OE...

A quick Google suggests it might be in storage/.xbmc/userdata/addon_data/service.multimedia.hts-tvheadend (or probably storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.multimedia.hts-tvheadend now). Have a look around there, see if you can find anything...

I thought.

If you have some time. Send me an email. Will be more productive, I am novice user in tvheadend.
    I teamviwer set.
But it may be here also, just tell me what I have to do, I'll try.

I'm shooting a movie right now.

I recorded using the two profiles. Same problem, but record does not show in tvheadend.

Log file? Anything different reported when the recordings happen?

Any additional information if you turn debug logging on? Either switch it on through the web interface (arrows/cog, lower right of web page) or through Configuration -> Debugging - play with these options, but 'dvr' is the subsystem to debug, most likely.

My guess remains that something's different about those recordings: the profile, the path, the permissions...

I've got something similar, but I'm not sure whether it's a bug or a quirk of my system. I've just upgraded from 3.9.1962 (a build from last autumn sometime) to 4.1.36. Looking through the interface to see what had changed, I changed the default log retention time from 900 to 9000 (is there an option that is the equivalent of keep until I delete the associated recording), and somehow that deleted all the log entries for my recordings. And infuriatingly, because I didn't understand then why the completed recordings and failed recordings pages were empty, I first of all rolled back to my original version of tvheadend, then upgraded again, and in the process I've overwritten a possibly useful backup file with a backup without the deleted files. Has anyone else had this happen to them.