Tvheadend recording to a network drive

[grahamh]

@feh123

I have tried using fstab to mount the usb drive too.

I use autofs for all my shared drives. Export the drive on the Pi4 with nfs-server and mount it under /mnt on the Pi3 and TVHeadend should be able to see it and write to it. You may need to reboot both Pis after setting this up.

Mounting network shares with autofs (alternative to fstab)

This how-to describes how to mount your network shares via autofs. Autofs should be as performant as fstab based mounting but has the advantage that your shares are mounted on demand which also should give you more reliability in case of network interuptions. First install the autofs package sudo apt-get install autofs If you already have mounted your shares already via fstab comment out that line in fstab and reboot. For this how-to we are going to use a directory for each server, if you wa…