Tvheadend

Does the user that Tvheadend runs as have permission read and write that location?

Sorry...forgot about the RW permissions...

TV Shows permsisions: 0755

Permissions...I always forget about that....

Under /home/osmc/ there are 3 tvheadend directories: ~/.hts/tvheadend, ~/tvheadend and ~/tvheadend/tvheadend (The 1st seems to be a subset of the 2nd or 3rd and, while the 2nd and 3rd are similar, there seems to be significant differences).

Directory/files owner:groups
_{/.hts/tvheadend - all are osmc:video except for a directory accesscontrol which is osmc:osmc}
/tvheadend - all are osmc:osmc
~/tvheadend/tvheadend - all are osmc:osmc

Where I'm telling tvh to put recorded tv programs:

~/TV Show - osmc:osmc

tvheadend user name is osmc, if that means anything. But I'm not really clear what the tvheadend user is except from what I see in the "ls -al" readout.

So, anything stand out on this?

Isn't that overkill on the tvheadend directories (also saw a file named tvheadend in /usr/bin but I figure that's not really related to this). I thought I read somewhere someone suggesting that the ~/.hts should be deleted because it wasn't needed. Is that true?

Thx and cheers....

That could be, but it does answer who is running Tvheadend. Try this:
ps aux | grep tvheadend | grep -v grep
The result of that will be all processes that include tvheadend, whether as the program name, user, or whatever. The second column (if I'm remembering right off the top of my head) will be the user who owns the process: this is the user that needs to own the directories where you are recording to.

Here are the results:

osmc 562 0.5 9.7 339484 73408 ? Ssl 17:49 0:58 /usr/bin/tvheadend -f -p /run/tvheadend.pid -C -u osmc -g video

Looks like owner:group is osmc:video if I've read that right...

1 thing I didn't mention is that before I changed the PVR record directory target, tvh had no problem seeing the directory and the files it put there. I want to say the default directory was /home/osmc, but I can't be sure. When I changed it to suit my setup, that's when things went a bit bonkers, so to speak

One other question that may be obliquely related to this....I discovered kodi has a fairly specific set of requirements for the file name (and directory structure) for recorded tv programs. In order to have files saved that way, is that something I can do in tvh or do I need to work from the zap2xml direction on this? Or do I need to set up some kind of script to manage it?

I know there's a Filename Options under Configuration/Digital Video Recorder Options as well as a Post-processor Command box under DVR Behavior (I've also used the zap2xml config in OSMC/Kodi directly as to what should be in the listing, if that is even part of this). Can either 1 of these be used to set the filename parameters?

Thx and cheers....

Robert Cameron wrote:

That could be, but it does answer who is running Tvheadend. Try this:
ps aux | grep tvheadend | grep -v grep
The result of that will be all processes that include tvheadend, whether as the program name, user, or whatever. The second column (if I'm remembering right off the top of my head) will be the user who owns the process: this is the user that needs to own the directories where you are recording to.