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Does TVheadend have permission to write to that folder/disc?
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Anyone? I am in the bad books with the wife .... can't record
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I did not have to do this for mine. Perhalps there was a weird issue with your user permissions. It really shouldn't make a difference, I mean who goes in and steals your copy of Jeopardy that is 10 times the size they could just download it for?
I always thought security on linux was a bit strange, the directory I care most about is my home directory and it has the least permission blocks. I'd rather the system crash than to have to redo my home folder.
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My guess is that you recently upgraded from 2.12 to a 2.12.99 pulse build. Between those two versions, TVheadend moved from running itself as 'root' to its own user, 'hts'. Hence why you needed to change the permissions on the recording folder in order to let hts write to it.
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just check that you have hts user and group called video, and change the owner of the folder to this user and group
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I'm having the same issue. My son desparately wanted me to record a program for him that was on after his bed time, so I hit the record button in XBMC, but when the program was over and I went to play back the recording, it wouldn't play (my son was *very* upset at me for this). XBMC had recorded just fine in the past, but that was before an update to the newer pulse branch of tvheadend.
I also do not have an hts user on my system. I'm not sure how to safely go about creating one without potentially messing something up. Would this help, and how do I do it?
I do have an hts group, however.
SupeReuven: I do not understand what you mean by "check that you have hts user and group called video". How do you call a group another group?
I have tried dpkg-reconfigure tvheadend, and it does let me set its administrator to a specific user. The default is my main user account. So, I've set the tvheadend administrator to my main user account, created a recording folder in that user directory, and set permissions on that folder to include hts and video groups. I then set the recording path in the tvheadend web UI to that directory. It still gives me this error. I cannot record anything.
Please help! I need to be able to record, otherwise I will not have a very happy family! Thanks!