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RKCRLR · 2018-10-18, 21:30

I have a USB hard drive attached to my Shield for OTA recordings. The hard drive spins down after about 10 minutes. When I attempt to watch a recording on the drive while it is spun down Kodi will time out before the hard drive spins up. It isn't a big deal since I just try again and it works.
Is there a way to set the time longer so Kodi doesn't time out?
Thanks

mr.igor · (This post was last modified: 2018-10-19, 05:54 by mr.igor.)

Go to the drive manufacturer's website. They should have a utility download which can set or disable the power down timeout.

RKCRLR · 2018-10-19, 16:18

(2018-10-19, 05:53)mr.igor Wrote: Go to the drive manufacturer's website. They should have a utility download which can set or disable the power down timeout.

They do, but I would prefer to have the hard drive power down when not in use.
Is there a way to keep the hard drive awake while Kodi is in use?

mr.igor · 2018-10-21, 08:48

Run a python script at startup that spawns a background process to access the drive periodically as long as Kodi is running. If you do any coding, this should be fairly easy. [famous last words]

Check out:

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=283268

RKCRLR · 2018-10-21, 18:07

I'm not into coding but I'll keep this in mind if I get to the point that I'm desperate.
Thanks

RKCRLR · 2018-10-28, 20:18

I may be incorrect about the problem being Kodi times out.
If I use a file explorer to access the USB drive when the drive is asleep it spins up within a few seconds and displays the directory. Everything works as expected.
This may be a bug in Kodi that causes a problem trying to access the drive while it is asleep.
I've pasted a log file in the link below:
https://paste.kodi.tv/upecogebiv.kodi
The last action I did is pushed the play button after it didn't work the first time. I have to wait a lot longer than a few seconds before I can select the play video button after it doesn't work the first time.

RKCRLR · 2018-10-29, 20:08

Giving this a bump and adding some more information.
I discovered that if I try to resume playing while the drive is asleep it looses it's place when it finally recovers. I have to then start playing the recording from the beginning. This makes the problem a little more annoying.

Is this a bug or a limitation of Kodi?

If it is a bug I'll put a bug report in (never done this before but it looks like an opportunity to learn).

If it is a Kodi limitation I can put a feature request in (not quite sure what to ask for and I've never done a feature request either).

Thanks