Does v5 support multiple recording directories?

[markn62]

No hits searching v5/windows regarding multiple recording directories.  Any way to get more than one at this point in development, perhaps via file edit?  So far I like what I see compared to TvMosaic.  More stable, more intuative, much better support.  Thanks guys for your help transitioning.

[markn62]

I should have also asked, can it be a network drive?

[sub]

Yes, it does, but the UI doesn't currently allow you to setup the directories. You can add them by editing config.xml though. After this, you can use select from the available directories when scheduling a recording.

<RecordingDirectory>C:\Users\Public\Videos\</RecordingDirectory>
<ExtraRecordingDirectories>D-Temp~D:\Temp~</ExtraRecordingDirectories>

Basically, <RecordingDirectory> is the "DEFAULT" recording directory. <ExtraRecordingDirectories> is any extra directories available. It's a little cryptic to read, but basically they added in pairs, with each element separated with a ~ character. The first item in the pair is the name. The second is the location. So, "D-Temp" points to D:\Temp. You can add other pairs for more directories. ie, <ExtraRecordingDirectories>D-Drive~D:\~E-Drive~E:\~F-Drive~F:\</ExtraRecordingDirectories>

I'll be adding settings for this in the web app in the near future.

[sub]

I should have also asked, can it be a network drive?

It can, but it'd need to be somewhere accessible from the account the service runs as. By default it runs as 'localsystem', so wont see any drive mappings you've made under your desktop account, so don't use drive letters. Use UNC paths instead NAS~\\server\share~ and make sure that share has permissions that'll allow that account to create and writes files

[markn62]

I edited C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\config.xml and edited line to;

<ExtraRecordingDirectories>NAS~\\192.168.2.112\Recordings\MOVIE\</ExtraRecordingDirectories>

However after restarting the exe and performing a record,advance,directory, only Default shows, no NAS shows as a choice.  I can put a drive letter V:\ in the UI Settings, General, Recording Directory and default recordings now store on my NAS drive.  So I tried editing same line to;

<ExtraRecordingDirectories>NAS~V:\NextPvr\</ExtraRecordingDirectories>

and same result, only default shows as a directory option.

[mvallevand]

Are you running the current build from 191006 or 191007 when this feature was added to the browser? It is working here on linux (with no restart needed)

Martin

[markn62]

Nope, running 190826 downloaded on 10/4/19.  Tried to install 191007 by unzipping to C:\Program Files\NextPvr\, no go. So extracted to temp then overwrote NextPvr folder.  I hope this is proper as I have modified the config.xml and don't know what other files were created by the exe that need to be retained.  My other option was to replace all folder contents and afterwards overwrite config.xml.  No specifics @ https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?tid=59388 on how to properly install an upgrade, only mentions upgrade from v4 and new installs.  Helpful would be a sentence or two on the proper way to upgrade from v5 to v5 so assumptions aren't made.

And "yes", after the upgrade the alternate record folder now appears, thanks Martin.

[warrencalvert]

Is there any way of automatically getting recordings to go into specific folders based on genre? I'd like movies always to go to a Movies folder and TV shows and series always to go to a TV Shows folder, without having to specify manually or when I schedule a recording.
Is this possible?
thanks,

[mvallevand]

For the few keystrokes that you need, sub would need to code the logic to identify movie and tv folders, and read the genre to see if it is a movie/film and then set it at recording type. All this is predicated on the EPG supporting the field. Make the default the one you recording type the most. How many seconds a year do you think this "work" will cost you?

Martin

[markn62]

And if two add'l directories are wanted should it be this or some other delimitator?

<RecordingDirectory>C:\Users\Public\Videos\</RecordingDirectory>
<ExtraRecordingDirectories>Beast~V:\NextPvr\Beast</ExtraRecordingDirectories>
<ExtraRecordingDirectories>Hive~V:\NextPvr\Hive</ExtraRecordingDirectories>

-or-

<RecordingDirectory>C:\Users\Public\Videos\</RecordingDirectory>
<ExtraRecordingDirectories>Beast~V:\NextPvr\Beast,Hive~V:\NextPvr\Hive</ExtraRecordingDirectories>

-or-

other...

The first example only shows Beast as add'l. The second shows Beast and V:\NextPvr\Hive, looses the ~name on the 2nd.