Tvheadend

Since nobody is reacting at my posting in the tvheadend forum, I allow myself to open a ticket as I slowly believe to be dealing with a bug. During the past year, Tvheadend and Kodi were working flawless, but since weeks recordings from my DVB-S card are incomplete. Honestly, I cannot clearly track if the problem has to do with the last update of Tvheadend or Kodi.

The problem is, that the DVB recordings are incomplete. The recordings start perfectly, but they are chopped. It doesn’t matter, If I set the timer via the EPG or manually in Kodi. Here is how I usually proceed:

- select the program in kodi via EPG and plan the recording.
- shut down the PC via the addon PVR recording and Power Manager

The recording starts perfectly, but stops for an unknown reason much too early. In kodi, I even increased the post-recording time to 15 min. (in Tvheadend it was set to 12 min.) , it still didn't help. A Manual set of the recording timer in Kodi gives the same results.

The "faulty" recordings are not showing in Kodi's "recordings" menu, however, I see the ts recorded files in the hts folder, I can open them, no prob. So far, most the incomplete recordings had a length of 2:09 h, one stopped after 2:10 h, one after 2:14 h.
Tvheadend recording status of all the failed recordings is Time missed.

The latest error was that two recordings were still shown as "in process" after restarting the PC in the morning, although they should have been finished hours before. In the last test I programed the recording to stop at 1:00, the PC shut down at 01:20 via shutdown command, when I restarted the PC in the morning Kodi was showing the recording ist still in progress, but in fact no recording was taking place anymore. The recording was 2:14 instead of 2:45 h long.

My HDD has still approx.. 150 GB free space.

Just in case you need, these are the R/W/X rights to the paths, but I do not think this might be the reason, since the recordings start anyway.

sudo ls -al /home/
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Aug 26 2018 .
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jun 30 22:02 ..
drwxrwxr-x 29 htpc htpc 4096 Jul 22 18:42 htpc
drwxrwxrwx 4 hts hts 4096 Jul 22 19:06 hts
drwxr-xr-x 3 kodi kodi 4096 Aug 26 2018 kodi
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Aug 26 2018 lost+found

sudo ls -al /home/hts/
drwxrwxrwx 4 hts hts 4096 Jul 22 19:06 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Aug 26 2018 ..
rw-rw-r- 1 hts video 142140220 Jul 22 19:10 'Achtung Kontrolle! Wir kuemmern uns drum.ts'
rw-rw-r- 1 hts video 9741750272 Jul 14 04:00 'Die Geschichte der Liebe.ts'
rw-rw-r- 1 hts video 11269058024 Apr 29 23:47 'Die Stunde des Killers.ts'
drwxrwxrwx 3 hts hts 4096 Aug 26 2018 .hts
rw-rw-r- 1 htpc htpc 10694847 Apr 7 23:03 'Savages - Im Auge des Kartells-2019-04-06-22:00.ts.idx2'
rw-rw-r- 1 htpc htpc 227677 Apr 7 23:00 'Savages - Im Auge des Kartells.ts.idx2'
drwxrwxrwx 2 hts video 4096 Aug 26 2018 .xmltv

In case you want to take a look, I also include the Kodi logs.

Please advise if you want me to do other tests.