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

[jcjefferies]

Its not easy to do as under LibreElec the NextPVR server is installed under /storage/.kodi/addons totally different to Linux.

I will check with LibreElec if there is a way to mount the LibreElec server recordings stored at /var/media/DATA_DISK on to a LibreElec client so they can be played on the client.

If that fails I will possibly migrate to a Linux server eventually which I have already installed as a test!

Chris

[mvallevand]

NextTool will work on LibreELEC, which is Linux as noted here https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...#pid590879

As I explained above you can also add any folder via config.xml for UI clients. Assuming you want to call it /var/media/DATA_DISK that would be

<Directory name="Old Recordings">/var/media/DATA_DISK</Directory>

Martin

[jcjefferies]

Thanks Martin its good to know others are using a LibreElec server so will investigate!

However I dont understand how you are suggesting I mount "/var/media/DATA_DISK" on the LibreElec server to the Videos main menu of the LibreElec client. Are you saying that its already mounted somewhere on the client to give access to "Recordings" directory?

Chris

[mvallevand]

Maybe I don't understand what you are trying to do. I am assuming /var/media/DATA_DISK contain a mix of old and new recordings with some not in the NextPVR database? Since I've explained how to add that folder as an NextPVR Video Library or import recordings as recording using NextTool that all your LE clients to this server will see, I don't know what I am missing.

Martin

[bgowland]

Thanks Martin its good to know others are using a LibreElec server so will investigate!

However I dont understand how you are suggesting I mount "/var/media/DATA_DISK" on the LibreElec server to the Videos main menu of the LibreElec client. Are you saying that its already mounted somewhere on the client to give access to "Recordings" directory?

Chris

I may be wrong but as far as I can tell the clients don't need to mount anything. It's only the nextpvr server which needs to know where the recordings are and needs
  to be able to access them. After that, the clients simply need to see the "Videos" menu option and the server does the rest.

Cheers,
Brian

[jcjefferies]

From the "Videos" on the LibreElec client main menu select "Files" > "add Videos" > "Browse" > select "Recordings"
The "Recordings" network share displays the recordings that NextPVR knows about. So this must be a network share of some sort!
What I want is access to ALL the recordings on the data disk many of which NextPVR no longer knows about.
The location of ALL the recordings on the server is /var/media/DATA_DISK but there is no obvious way to share this location!
I would have preferred to have access to the recordings directory so I could play some of the recordings to decide to keep or delete them. So the other option is to use NextPVR Nexttool to import recordings into NextPVR. I have details of installing and running under LibreElec so will do that tomorrow!

Chris

[mvallevand]

Ok so your first sentence really has nothing to do with NextPVR it is strictly LE server and client configuration.

On the server you need to configure samba sharing of the folder it may not be obvious but it is documented https://wiki.libreelec.tv/configuration/samba for custom shares

On the clients you need to configure smb:// URLs (not nfs) or mount the shares manually

Martin