I have been successfully using Linux Mint for many years in spite of the fact that it is not an supported OS. Before anyone answers “Mint is stupid use *** instead and all of this will magically go away,” I use Mint for other stuff and I’d rather not redo my entire life to make DVR recording work. I assume this is a permissions problem. As it always seems to be with Mint and Plex not getting along. I went into the drive and I have group as plex with full read/write. I don’t know what else I can do. This all worked fine until I upgraded the to Mint most recent version and the DVR quit working. Any help would be much appreciated.
None of these “inherit,” tricks seem to work. I give up. I punted Mint back a few weeks on Timeshift and now DVR seems to be recording again. I wish Mint was supported. Might be time to switch to a supported OS.
Well, I went back to a few-weeks-old version of Mint and reinstalled that and DVR recording worked for a day until I did some updates and then back to “no write access to destination.” Everyone on here says Mint is flakier than a French pastry shop so I got pissed, pulled the HDD and did a fresh install of Ubuntu which everyone assured me would be as easy as tying your shoes to get working. Nope. Not at all. An entirely different set of problems with permissions, etc. Only this time I don’t even have enough of a background in the OS to figure out where to find the problem. Again, I punted and ripped a HDD out of an old laptop with Windows 10 on it. That actually works. However getting the Haupague WinTV-HVR-955Q to work was an obnoxious chore of installing their proprietary tv watching software (WinTV v10) and bailing out of the install when it asks you for the serial number but after its installed the drivers. At least it works.
