Not seeing all my recordings

I'm only seeing a couple weeks of recordings using the the web interface to tvheadend or kodi. If I go to the directory where the files are stored I see a couple months worth of recordings.

The rp4 that is running tvheadend has been up for 34 days.

Retention is set to forever.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Replies (3)

RE: Not seeing all my recordings - Added by Hiro Protagonist over 4 years ago

Try grepping for the filename of one of the files that's not showing up in your dvr/logs dir:

grep  /var/spool/pvr/Restored/Restored2020-03-13.mkv .hts/tvheadend/dvr/log/*

Obviously you'll need to modify the paths to suit your setup. You should get a hit, otherwise it means some of your log files have been deleted.

If so, it is possible to re-import your recordings to TVH, but you will lose meta-data, as that's stored in the logs.

RE: Not seeing all my recordings - Added by Wes S over 4 years ago

Yes, there is a correlation between missing files and missing logs.

This is tvheadend on a rpi4. I figured out this morning that my powered usb hub my hdd is plugged into is keeping my pi from rebooting properly. I'm thinking bad things happened the back when I rebooted it.

I added a check for the drive being mounted from this thread:

https://tvheadend.org/boards/4/topics/36488

I'll do some googling now on how to add/import the missing files.

In the future I'll tell the pi to stop and turn off power to pi and usb hub. I'll look for a cable that doesn't back feed power.

Thanks,

Wes