Mounting NAS folders & PVR's

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Hi, I’ve gone through this before at Vero4K: want to use as PVR / view OTA broadcasting - but the instructions there no longer seem to work (I’ve had to reinstall Kodi along the way and am trying to rebuild it).

I have a Synology NAS @ 192.168.2.99 and my Vero4k is 192.168.2.51. I can view video files on the NAS without issue. What I’m trying to do is to use TVH to watch over the air TV. I have that working too and can watch shows, use the EPG, etc. I want to have the recorded shows saved to a PVR folder on my NAS. I see in TVH where you specify the location to save recordings, but something isn’t working as it fails.

Going through previous help, here is where we are:

file contents of /etc/auto.master (way down at the bottom after of existing stuff

+dir:/etc/auto.master.d
+auto.master
/- /etc/auto.nfs.shares --timeout 15 browse

file contents of etc/auto.nfs.shares is:

/mnt/Diskstation/PVR 192.168.2.99:/volume2/PVR

Using the command:

showmount -e 192.168.2.99

gives me:

osmc@osmc:~$ showmount -e 192.168.2.99
Export list for 192.168.2.99:
/volume2/PVR   *
/volume2/video *
/volume2/music *
osmc@osmc:~$

As far as I know, this means PVR, video and music are all mounted. I don’t know how video & music got in there. I assume I did it a long time ago in Kodi itself when I set things up to see movie video files.

Typing ls /mnt/pvr gives me

ls: cannot access '/mnt/pvr': No such file or directory

I don’t really know what the issue is or how to resolve it so I can save recorded TV to my NAS in the PVR folder.

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Hi,

Try

ls /mnt/Diskstation/PVR

That is the mount point you setup via autofs.

Regards Tom.

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Have you set the necessary user/folder permissions for the PVR folder in Synology DSM ? I seem to remember having to set up a user (I used OSMC but whatever name is appropriate, I just used the same details as OSMC to keep it simple) in DSM with read/write permissions for the folder and share the folder giving the user (OSMC) mount permissions for it.
Worked good for me, while I was using OSMC/TVH. At the moment I’m trying NextPVR, recordings go to the NAS (to the OSMC folder) and I play them back via Plex
Jimi

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Hi,

That sounds like you using samba shares. No need to setup a user for NFS shares. There could be a permissions issue, but atm issue is looking more like a configuration issue on the vero4k.

Regards Tom.

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Your correct, IIRC it was setup using nfs shares, but had problems getting it to work properly (probably down to my lack of knowledge) then switched to samba and it’s been fine for 2/3 years.
Jimi

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This is the solution in my case. Thanks @Tom_Doyle

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