Recording system path

Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
HTS Tvheadend 4.2.2-36~g60e4409
Kodi 17.3+git2017052

NUC 5i7RYHR
Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5557U CPU @ 3.10GHz
16GB RAM

Hi,

I've come over to Tvheadend from MythTV but I'm having a few issues.

One issue is that I have to login in three times to the web interface before it lets me in.

I had tvheadend recording the the /home/hts path but that volume has too little free space to continue recording there.

Having had my system set up already for MythTV, I have previously mounted a 400GB SSD under /var/lib/mythtv/recordings. I wanted to record through tvheadend on the same drive but keep the legacy mythtv setup in place.

I set the path in Configuration->Recording->Digital Video Recording Profiles (Default profile)->Recording system path: but after many attempts at setting up tvheadend to use that as the 'Recording system path' I still can't it to record there.

# ls -ld /var/lib/mythtv/recordings
drwxrwsr-x+ 4 mythtv mythtv 12288 Jun  5 19:31 /var/lib/mythtv/recordings

# getfacl /var/lib/mythtv/recordings
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names

# file: var/lib/mythtv/recordings
# owner: mythtv
# group: mythtv
# flags: -s-
user::rwx
user:hts:rwx
group::rwx
group:hts:rwx
mask::rwx
other::r-x
default:user::rwx
default:user:hts:rwx
default:group::rwx
default:group:hts:rwx
default:mask::rwx
default:other::r-x

Kodi refuses to record through the tvheadend. What am I missing?

Kind regards,
Tom

Replies (5)

RE: Recording system path - Added by Tom Robinson over 7 years ago

Hi,

I've just worked out that if I go the the Electronic Program Guide in the tvheadend web interface, I can record a program to the Recording system path. Kodi still gives and error!

Kind regards,
Tom

RE: Recording system path - Added by Tom Robinson over 7 years ago

This is now weird. It's looking more like a Kodi plugin issue. I configured the Kodi Tvheadend HTSP Client-Advanced Settings-Debugging-Trace(detailed) to on and now recording from within Kodi works! If I switch the Trace to off, Kodi won't record giving the following message:

PVR backend error. Check the log for more information about this message.

Here's the log:

23:02:41.270 T:140516265150848   ERROR: AddOnLog: Tvheadend HTSP Client: pvr.hts - Command addDvrEntry failed: User does not have access
23:02:41.270 T:140516265150848   ERROR: PVR - AddTimer - addon 'Tvheadend:127.0.0.1:9982' returned an error: server error
23:02:41.270 T:140516265150848   ERROR: PVR - AddTimer - cannot add timer to client '2025648334': server error

RE: Recording system path - Added by Tom Robinson over 7 years ago

User does not have access

From the log above it does look like a permissions issue. Why can I record from within the web interface but only get an error in Kodi and then when I put tracing on in the Kodi plugin it allows the recording?

Subsequent ERROR messages indicate a server error

RE: Recording system path - Added by Gisli Ottarsson over 7 years ago

I have the same problem.

I have defined a user on tvheadend (Configure -> Users) and have checked all privileges in Basic Settings. The DVR addon on Kodi is logged in as this user. Still I get:

17:51:00.548 T:1958416384 ERROR: AddOnLog: Tvheadend HTSP Client: pvr.hts - Command addDvrEntry failed: Access denied
17:51:00.548 T:1958416384 ERROR: PVR - AddTimer - addon 'Tvheadend:192.168.1.28:9982' returned an error: server error
17:51:00.548 T:1958416384 ERROR: PVR - AddTimer - cannot add timer to client '2146250725': server error

I could add that using the TVHClient app for Android, I have no problem recording. The recording problem seems to be specific to Kodi. Both OSMC and OpenELEC.

Any tips?

Gísli

RE: Recording system path - Added by Gisli Ottarsson over 7 years ago

All of a sudden this is working. I am not quite sure what did the trick. My suspicion is that I had not restarted the Kodi add-in after checking some of the user's privileges on tvheadend. The add-in just restarted and now it works.

Now I can schedule recordings. Also, now Kodi can see the recordings that I have been making from the TVHClient.

Best regards

Gísli

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