LibreElec NextPVR Server problem

[jcjefferies]

I have been running NextPVR on a LibreElec server for almost a year and it is working well for me. All seems Ok except the recordings listed on the playback client does not show all the recordings actually on the disk. This is not a major problem as I tend to watch and delete most recordings within a week. However there are some old recordings I would like to watch but don’t have access from any client.
I thought that an easy work around would be to enable the NextPVR client “Video” menu item which I usually delete and point it to the data disk on the server! However I have been unable to connect to the server from the LibreElec standard client or the NextPVR New Client.

nfs://
nfs://192.168.1.249
nfs://192.168.1.249/var/media/DATA_DISK

I was perhaps expecting one of the options it to display the local LibreElec NFS server but all give no response!
However “Recordings” is an option under the “Browse for new share” menu but this is not the full contents of the “DATA_DISK”.

I can connect to /var/media/DATA_DISK from FileZilla but that is via SFTP!

I am getting a bit rusty with nfs since I retired many years ago after being admin on a subnet of Linux servers so could do with some help!!
 
Chris

[mvallevand]

NextPVR only support standard filesystem naming and since Linux doesn't understand UNC or Kodi special URIs like smb:// and nfs:// it's not clear how you troed to add those libraries.

I will assume you have followed the LE example on how to connect to an external nfs share and you can see all your files in an ssh shell. If it was me I'd use NextTool and import the folder(s) on the mount that you want to see

If you want to use the video library NextPVR doesn't provide a GUI to add those video, audio or picture libraries. You have to edit config.xml and add as many directories as you want.

Code:

.
    <VideoLibrary extensions="^.+\.(mpeg|mpg|m2v|avi|ty|avs|ogm|mp4|mov|m2ts|wmv|cdg|iso|rm|dvr-ms|ts|mkv|vob|divx|flv|m4v|3gp|rmvb|wtv|bdmv|lnk)$">
      <Directory name="Old Recordings">/storage/wherever</Directory>
...
    </VideoLibrary>

Unfortunately because of issue with arm 7.0.2 wasn't released for LE but 7.0.3 should begin testing soon.

Martin