Default to recording location with the most space available (UNC Support)

cbgifford · 2015-10-06, 11:07 PM

Hey sub,

What's the possibility of adding network shares to the mix when selecting a recording directory with the most available space. From what I understand that is only available to local drives only.

gEd · 2015-10-06, 11:35 PM

Programmatically determining space available from UNC Path

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20503...m-unc-path

cbgifford · 2015-10-07, 12:27 AM

gEd Wrote:Programmatically determining space available from UNC Path

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20503...m-unc-path

Whoever wrote the System plugin does it too.

johnsonx42 · 2015-10-07, 01:39 AM

when it was implemented, the logic for that choice had nothing to do with not knowing how to determine the available space on a UNC path. It was initially implemented with a quick patch (although it didn't actually work until the following release), and the idea at the time is that users who have UNC paths defined on a NAS box or other remote storage would probably have more space available there than the preferred internal storage so extending this to UNC paths without additional settings would render the internal storage useless (or more likely, render the new feature useless).

I suggested at some point awhile back having a more robust recording path setup where each path would have various attributes including:

- Include in pool (i.e. spread recording)
- Minimum GB Free (to start recording)
- Overflow only (to be used only when other recording paths are full)

I don't get the impression that there is any appetite for implementing such a change for the next release though.

cbgifford · 2015-10-07, 05:32 AM

johnsonx42 Wrote:I don't get the impression that there is any appetite for implementing such a change for the next release though.

It's a wish list, all those features would be nice, something to look forward to, maybe.. Cool

cbgifford · 2016-02-10, 03:18 AM

Bump, any hope for this to make it to the next release, pretty please!

cbgifford Wrote:It's a wish list, all those features would be nice, something to look forward to, maybe..

***sub*** · 2016-02-10, 04:41 AM

I've added support for this in the next release.

BrettB · 2016-02-10, 05:45 AM

Thanks, sub! Smile

cbgifford · 2016-02-10, 05:20 PM

sub Wrote:I've added support for this in the next release.

Awesome! Thanks Sub!

mvallevand · 2016-02-10, 09:49 PM

Hope this is optional. My NAS is now broken and I would rather failures then filling up my system SSD that I use for live tv only.

Thanks.

Martin.

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