swampy Newcomer Posts: 5 Joined: Sat Oct 17, 2015 9:36 pm
Post by swampy » Fri May 27, 2016 6:21 am
Hi
just setting up Mythtv on backend setup
have everyting set up , except for recordings on storage directories
on this option if I just leave Default / when I exit i Get a message saying "//.test" -directory is not writeable do you want to go back and fix these 2 problems
So tried to change to /var/lib/mythtv/recordings (recordings being the directory i created to put recordings in)
Upon exit get message path /var/lib/mythtv recordings path doesnt exist do you want to go back and fix these 2 problems
Any Guidance appreciated
halucigenia Senior Posts: 123 Joined: Tue Nov 11, 2014 11:03 am
Post by halucigenia » Fri May 27, 2016 12:38 pm
It's best to put them on a dedicated drive or at least a dedicated partition, making sure that the mythtv user has permissions to write to whatever directory you create there for the recordings.
wesnewell Senior Posts: 731 Joined: Mon Jun 23, 2014 6:54 pm Location: Wylie TX, USA
Post by wesnewell » Fri May 27, 2016 2:38 pm
You have to manually create the directories and give read/write access to them. Mythbuntu used to do that, but the latest version didn't create any, so I had to do it manually. Putting a link to them in the setup doesn't create them.
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kd6ybr Junior Posts: 15 Joined: Sun Jan 17, 2016 9:10 pm
Post by kd6ybr » Tue Jun 14, 2016 10:47 am
halucigenia wrote: . making sure that the mythtv user has permissions to write to whatever directory you create there for the recordings.
On my fresh mythbuntu 16.04 install I use /var/lib/mythtv/ as my storage directories. I changed group ownership from 'root' to 'mythtv' and made the folder read and writable by the mythtv group. All changes were made recursively to sub folders.