NPVR wish list: recording path select (per recording) & email when an error occurs

[DHL]

NPVR is great! Thank you for all of the time you've put into creating it!

Two requests:

1. Ability to choose a path for recording each program
2. send an email when recording service stops or hangs, or a recording fails, etc.

Cheers!
Happy New Year!

[ShiningDragon]

Till the email will receive you, the show is over. There's another solution for a hanging recording service (which really shouldn't happen if all is running fine). Just go into the management console and configure the services. You'll find the NPVR Recording Service there and can configure (right click -> properties -> recovery) some actions.
I have choosen for the first two errors "restart service" and after counting the 3rd error "restart pc". Under normal circumstances this works great. If you're pc is passwordprotected and can't bootup automatical, then you should select as 3rd option "restart service" too.

[OTAjunkie]

1. Ability to choose a path for recording each program

Yes this would be great as well as the format conversion e.g. 3GP
BTW where is this cabability in NPVR?

I like where this is going please keep up the good work.

[martint123]

2. send an email when recording service stops or hangs, or a recording fails, etc.

Or run a batchfile something like "onerror.bat" where any action, including blatt -ing an email could be used.
At times my dvb-t driver or tuner stops delivering data and if I'm away an email followed by a remote login and reboot would at least let any following shows get recorded.
(I do email the tuner status each wake from hibernate, but it usually reports OK until after an attempted recording fails).