What controls where the user ".NPVR-data" resides?

[CDinger]

First, I am using Arch linux so I am following Subs manual install option. I am asking where the userdata should reside because I experienced a very odd change over the weekend. When shutting down my computer it went into and odd loop on the evening of the 28th and after ~20 minutes I shut it down by holding the power button until it shutdown.

I'm a little foggy on the next steps but I think when it rebooted NextPVR web interface came up but all settings were gone. I believe I then tried to reinstall NPVR.zip but I may have just started the process of scanning for channels, etc. Either way I did end up rescanning and resetting up NextPVR.

On the 29th I was trying to verify NextEnd was functioning properly after upgrading to the dotnet 3.1 version when I noticed shows were being recorded but the nrecord.log showed the wrong date/time. A search for nrecord.log found another instance in /root/.NPVR-data/logs/nrecord.log which had the correct date/time. The change of locations happened Dec 28 between the times below from the journalctl log but again I didn't discover this until the 29th.

Dec 28 17:07:30 Arch sh[475]: NEXTPVR_DATADIR_USERDATA /home/craig/.NPVR-data/

Dec 28 17:42:42 Arch sh[408]: NEXTPVR_DATADIR_USERDATA /root/.NPVR-data/

On the 29th I removed the /root and all subdirectories and reinstalled NPVR.zip as I had done previously using Ark....but now the userdata folder is a root level folder /.NPVR.data as below

Dec 29 08:29:28 Arch sh[573]: NEXTPVR_DATADIR_USERDATA /root/.NPVR-data/

Dec 29 12:21:24 Arch sh[39407]: NEXTPVR_DATADIR_USERDATA /.NPVR-data/

I copied my NPVR.db3 file from /home/craig/.NPVR-data/npvr.db3 to /.NPRV-data/npvr.db3 and NPVR recognized all my prior recordings and settings.

I can work with userdata residing at /.NPVR-data but the change seems really odd.

Attached are logs generated from the /.NPVR-data location.

Craig

[mvallevand]

Where the user data is stored is all based on the NEXTPVR_DATADIR_USERDATA environment variable and has nothing to do with the .NPVR-data name. If it is not found then it defaults to ~/.NPVR-data folder of the user running NextPVRServer.dll It sounds like you are running as an undefined user.

I know with the deb installer I force a home folder
in /etc/nextpvr-server.conf
NEXTPVR_DATADIR_USERDATA=/var/opt/nextpvr/

This is called from the service

[Service]
EnvironmentFile=/etc/nextpvr-server.conf

Of course this won't help you testing NextEnd with the production database To test via the command line you need to set the variable if it isn't set globally ie.

NEXTPVR_DATADIR_USERDATA=/var/opt/nextpvr/ /opt/dotnet/dotnet NextEnd.dll --monitor --jit

Martin

[CDinger]

It finally dawned on me what happened. I was working with the nextpvr-server.service file and I removed the User=craig line from the [Service] entry.  Therefore, yes nextpvr was running as an undefined user. This all happened when I was changing things to make the nextpvr-server start after the network was up and functional. I fixed one thing and broke another but both are working now.

[Unit]
Description=runs NPVR.sh

[Service]
Type=simple
User=craig
WorkingDirectory=/home/craig/NPVR
ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c 'until ping -c1 192.168.0.1; do sleep 1; done;'
ExecStart=sh NPVR.sh
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=10000ms

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Thanks for all your help,

Craig