How to store live TV recordings to HDHomerun DVR

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I have an HDHomerun Scribe DVR. I set it up as a DVR in Plex (I have the Plex Pass subscription). Plex recognizes it, I have the tuner set up and the channels all show up as I expected.

When I set it up I did it from my Windows 10 laptop and designated it as the server, not sure if that was the right thing to do.

When I go to a live TV show under Live TV and DVR and I try to record a show it says I need to specify a folder. The only place it allows me to setup a folder is on the C: drive of my laptop. There is no option to make a folder on my HDHomre DVR. How to I accomplish this? I’m sure there’s a way or there would be no point in having a 1TB hard drive in my DVR.

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You cannot save your recordings to the HDHR. It doesn’t have a drive to save. You need to have libraries for the type of video you are saving (movie and/or tv shows). The locations used for those libraries is where the DVR saves to.

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Then what is the point of having the HDHomerun? My TV can tune the channels with the external antenna.

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But your TV can’t get the data to your computer to save. That’s what the HDHR does. It allows your computer to save the stream.

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Sorry, for the stream of dumb questions. Why can’t the HDHR just record to it’s own hard drive though?

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It doesn’t come with a hard drive.

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Yes, mine has a 1 TB hard drive

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What model is it. I didn’t think any HDHR devices had a drive.

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Ah. The HDHR Scribe does have it’s own internal drive. I did not know about this. That only works with it’s own DVR program. Plex does not have access to it.

Edit - I’m not familiar enough with that device, but if the storage on that box can be accessed normally from a computer, then you could setup your Plex Media Server to create your libraries there and then it could get saved there as well.

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Alright, thanks for the info. I’m glad I only paid for the one month Plex Pass service.

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