Cannot record from HD Homerun . Live TV is OK

Server Version#: 1.41.4.9463
Player Version#: 4.145.1
Tuner Make/Model: HD Homerun Flex 4K
Guide/Lineup name: Unknown
Using XMLTV?: No
Channel number/Name: All

I setup DVR recording on this Plex Media server for Linux yesterday. The server has been running for years, but wasn’t using the DVR feature previously.

I am able to view live TV. But all DVR recordings fail, with something like this :

Feb 19, 2025 00:37:00.904 [131896908458808] DEBUG - [Grabber/29709416a5a4d9911545aaf52673dfd96ee207e5] Subscription: No existing library item episode ‘grandparentGuid: plex://show/65503a1a1972dc772c974fc2 grandparentThumb: https://metadata-static.plex.tv/7/gracenote/7f2999dc075a51b5a867369afa5bde4d.jpg grandparentTitle: After Midnight grandparentYear: 2024 guid: plex://episode/67afc57c77ce7cb5b8675acb index: 64 originallyAvailableAt: 2025-02-17 parentGuid: plex://season/65503a1a1972dc772c974fc2/2 parentIndex: 2 parentTitle: Season 2 ratingKey: plex%3A%2F%2Fepisode%2F67afc57c77ce7cb5b8675acb title: Danny Pudi; Jessie Ennis; Ashly Burch type: 4 year: 2025’
Feb 19, 2025 00:37:00.904 [131896908458808] DEBUG - [Grabber/29709416a5a4d9911545aaf52673dfd96ee207e5] Starting operation for ‘After Midnight - E64 - Danny Pudi; Jessie Ennis; Ashly Burch’ on channel 5fc76b97c40548002d70b5ed-5fc70600a2236e002d69f915.
Feb 19, 2025 00:37:00.904 [131896908458808] DEBUG - [Grabber/29709416a5a4d9911545aaf52673dfd96ee207e5] Activity: registered new activity 61328d4c-31b1-4910-8d55-e5934bf7e121 - “Recording”
Feb 19, 2025 00:37:00.904 [131896908458808] DEBUG - [Grabber/29709416a5a4d9911545aaf52673dfd96ee207e5] Grabber: HDHomerun starting a media grab on device device://tv.plex.grabbers.hdhomerun/10A59C29 (Unknown HDHomeRun FLEX 4K, supported) tuner 2.
Feb 19, 2025 00:37:00.904 [131896900070200] DEBUG - [Grabber/29709416a5a4d9911545aaf52673dfd96ee207e5/HCl#1873] HTTP requesting GET http://192.168.100.11:80/discover.json
Feb 19, 2025 00:37:00.906 [131896908458808] DEBUG - [Grabber/29709416a5a4d9911545aaf52673dfd96ee207e5] Subscription: No existing library item episode ‘grandparentGuid: plex://show/65503a1a1972dc772c974fc2 grandparentThumb: https://metadata-static.plex.tv/7/gracenote/7f2999dc075a51b5a867369afa5bde4d.jpg grandparentTitle: After Midnight grandparentYear: 2024 guid: plex://episode/67afc57c77ce7cb5b8675acb index: 64 originallyAvailableAt: 2025-02-17 parentGuid: plex://season/65503a1a1972dc772c974fc2/2 parentIndex: 2 parentTitle: Season 2 ratingKey: plex%3A%2F%2Fepisode%2F67afc57c77ce7cb5b8675acb title: Danny Pudi; Jessie Ennis; Ashly Burch type: 4 year: 2025’
Feb 19, 2025 00:37:00.906 [131896908458808] DEBUG - [Grabber/29709416a5a4d9911545aaf52673dfd96ee207e5] Grabber: checking for 8192 MB of available disk space in grab path and 100 MB in the transcode cache path
Feb 19, 2025 00:37:00.906 [131896908458808] DEBUG - [Grabber/29709416a5a4d9911545aaf52673dfd96ee207e5] IsOnSameVolume: failed to stat “/array/zfs/Movies/MKV/TV Shows/.grab”: No such file or directory
Feb 19, 2025 00:37:00.906 [131896908458808] ERROR - [Grabber/29709416a5a4d9911545aaf52673dfd96ee207e5] Failed to calculate available disk space for path ‘“/array/zfs/Movies/MKV/TV Shows/.grab”’: 2 (No such file or directory)
Feb 19, 2025 00:37:00.906 [131896908458808] DEBUG - [Grabber/29709416a5a4d9911545aaf52673dfd96ee207e5] Grabber: Saving recording to “/array/zfs/Movies/MKV/TV Shows/.grab/29709416a5a4d9911545aaf52673dfd96ee207e5-97b301095d3fc3b9b548e7f65c1937610b444ba9”
Feb 19, 2025 00:37:00.906 [131896908458808] ERROR - [Grabber/29709416a5a4d9911545aaf52673dfd96ee207e5] Grabber: No write permission.
Feb 19, 2025 00:37:00.906 [131896908458808] DEBUG - [Grabber/29709416a5a4d9911545aaf52673dfd96ee207e5] Grabber: Operation for ‘After Midnight - E64 - Danny Pudi; Jessie Ennis; Ashly Burch’ on channel 5fc76b97c40548002d70b5ed-5fc70600a2236e002d69f915 completed with status error (No write access to destination)
Feb 19, 2025 00:37:00.906 [131896908458808] DEBUG - [Grabber/29709416a5a4d9911545aaf52673dfd96ee207e5] Activity: Ended activity 61328d4c-31b1-4910-8d55-e5934bf7e121.
Feb 19, 2025 00:37:00.906 [131897013316408] DEBUG - [Grabber/29709416a5a4d9911545aaf52673dfd96ee207e5] Activity: updated activity 590e1c3c-22d3-4d56-a2a7-61d952cdc125 - completed 100.0% - Refreshing Sub
Feb 19, 2025 00:37:00.907 [131896908458808] ERROR - [Grabber/29709416a5a4d9911545aaf52673dfd96ee207e5] Starting media grab failed.
Feb 19, 2025 00:37:00.907 [131897105591096] DEBUG - [HttpClient/HCl#1873] HTTP/1.1 (0.0s) 200 response from GET http://192.168.100.11:80/discover.json
Feb 19, 2025 00:37:00.907 [131896900070200] DEBUG - [Grabber/29709416a5a4d9911545aaf52673dfd96ee207e5/HCl#1875] HTTP requesting GET http://192.168.100.11:80/lineup_status.json
Feb 19, 2025 00:37:00.908 [131897013316408] DEBUG - [Grabber/29709416a5a4d9911545aaf52673dfd96ee207e5] Activity: Ended activity 590e1c3c-22d3-4d56-a2a7-61d952cdc125.
Feb 19, 2025 00:37:00.919 [131897105591096] DEBUG - [HttpClient/HCl#1875] HTTP/1.1 (0.0s) 200 response from GET

This was a recording for the series “After midnight” starting at 00:37 on CBS.

I was playing video from Plex at the time the TV program was scheduled to start. At 00:37, the Plex app showed a message in the top right corner telling me that the recording has failed. I was then able to open the HD Homerun app and record it manually there, so I only missed roughly the first minute of the show.

I only looked at the logs this morning, and can’t figure out why it failed.

I have only

Looks like that folder doesn’t have the proper permission. Make sure your TV Shows folder has given plex permission to write in it. If you ls -l in your MKV folder it will tell you who owns the folders within MKV and what group has access to it. For it to work you at least need plex in the group spot.

eg.
drwxrwr-x 2 username plex 4096 Jan 26 05:45 TV

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