Finding recording path.....

[Houghton19@gmail.com]

Im back again, so I was unsuccessful in using my NAS with the inbuilt terramaster software, I am currently trying to run TrueNas scale on my NAS device after a little upgrade. again, like my last post, my knowledge is very limited. 

Im looking at using this as a home server and also a small plex server, most important at the moment are 3 apps. 

Sabnzbd, Plex, Next pvr. so far I have all three apps installed, if Im not mistaken the apps are installed via Kubernetes.

I have successfully downloaded a video folder using sab and have it show up in my plex library. Great, however once again its Nextpvr causing me the pain, when installing sab it lets me save my downloads on my drive 
/mnt/Downloads/SabNZBdComplete

this can be mounted inside plex and lets me access the files.

I then do the same for NextPVR, and have "app recording storage" in the app info/ install set to /mnt/Downloads/NextPVR/Recordings. app installs no issues, I can add my digital tuner, see my channels and record, however the recordings seem to stay within the container/pod. if I try to set the above as a record folder I get a message from Next saying "IP address:10183 says, unable to add recording directory: Directory /mnt/Downloads/NextPVR/Recordings does not exist. 

if I manually select the folder, i can see the /mnt folder but it is empty.

I seem to be in a catch 22, as the other way I thought would be to direct Plex to the custom folder that NextPVR uses, but my plex cant find that folder that way either.

 I have tried changing groups, owners, run as admin, root, nobody, and end up with the same issue. 

Does anyone know how I can "join" (for lack of a better word) the two apps so I can see the directory? 

Also tried setting the directory as a SMB file in the hope that plex could load that, but from inside next it still cant see that file despite it being added when installing the app as the "recording location"

thanks for any help on this matter, Also will post in Truenas forums in the hope of finding a resolution.

[sub]

When you're configuring your NAS to run NextPVR in a docker container, you need to tell it what directories will be mapped into the container.

ie, take a look at the docker install instructions here https://hub.docker.com/r/nextpvr/nextpvr_amd64. Specifically:

Code:

--volume /home/graeme/config:/config \                      
--volume /home/graeme/videos:/recordings \
--volume /home/graeme/videos:/buffer \

This is saying, map /home/graeme/videos from the host system, to appear as /recordings inside the container.

NextPVR running in the container is configured to record to /recordings by default, meaning the files will be created in /home/graeme/videos

[Houghton19@gmail.com]

thanks for your reply, I just had to nip out, before leaving I set a test record just incase, so its basically ignore what it says in app as its overrode by whatever the installer tells it.....

I wasnt sure if this was the case as on the previous install it showed the HDD as my 8TB drive......

so the test file is a little closer, I can see the video on my smb on my Windows PC, however plex still isnt seing the recorded file dispite being forwarded to it.
wonder if thats a permissions issue.

[mvallevand]

Plex in a container won't be able to access a physical drive or share directly via /mnt either so you have to configure it's Docker too.

[Houghton19@gmail.com]

I believe I have done this correct, as mentioned earlier I have done the same as I did for Sab and the test download worked ok on that. here is my files paths below.

[Houghton19@gmail.com]

I believe I have done this correct, as mentioned earlier I have done the same as I did for Sab and the test download worked ok on that. here is my files paths below.

I noticed that there wasnt a _ in the manual folder list, even changing this is didnt help.

[Houghton19@gmail.com]

So I stripped all the ACL settings for the permissions and started again. Boom, Seems to have done it. thanks so much!!!!!

excuse the kids show, i just find them easy for tests as only a few minutes long each

Thanks again.