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