Tvheadend

Over on the left of the screen, you should see a profile name. If you don't, you're probably on a very old version...

Assuming you do, that's what you need. A recording profile is a way of taking all of those parameters on that page, and saving them together as a template. So, for example, you may want a different profile for different channels or programme types - maybe with different pre/post padding, maybe with a different container type, maybe a different post-processor command - and, crucially for you, perhaps with a different recording directory path.

Have a look. That's what you need. You can then select the relevant profile either when you schedule a one-off recording, or as part of an automatic recording rule.

Hi, thanks for your reply.

Yes, I do see the recording profile (so far I have only the default one). I'm running version 4.0.8, I should have mentioned that in my post.

So there's no automatic way for tvheadend to detect "whoops, the disc is full, I'll use the next free one", but instead I have to distribute my recordings to the different discs by rules? That's a real pity then... Maybe it's something for the devs to think about including in future versions. I can't imagine I'm the only person that would find this useful.

Or is there any way to work around this restriction?

you could create one big volume from all of your drives, check out LVM, or some software raid solution...

just be aware in case of lvm if one drive fails, you'll lose everything...

mhddfs is another option...