Server version: 1.9.6.4401
OS: Windows 10 Pro
Tuner: HDHomerun Connect
History: Been using NextPVR for years, starting to play with Plex as a central “do all” command center for all my media including recorded TV shows.
I have been having a weird issue with series recordings not being able to record because of this:
Nov 03, 2017 00:58:00.882 [18312] DEBUG - DVR:Grabber: Starting operation for ‘Alfred Hitchcock Presents - E4 - Cop for a Day’.
Nov 03, 2017 00:58:00.882 [18312] DEBUG - Activity: registered new activity 3a1fed77-7d86-4893-977f-b8aea232dc09 - Recording
Nov 03, 2017 00:58:00.882 [18312] DEBUG - DVR:Grabber: HDHomerun starting a media grab on device device://tv.plex.grabbers.hdhomerun/10430FB9 (Silicondust HDHomeRun CONNECT, supported) tuner 0.
Nov 03, 2017 00:58:00.886 [18312] DEBUG - DVR:Subscription: Failed to resolve subscription for ‘guid: com.gracenote.onconnect://show/184181 thumb: https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/8T26t54uCoh7Lej9foB1ENKnXxg.jpg title: Alfred Hitchcock Presents type: 2 year: 1955’ to library item
Nov 03, 2017 00:58:00.886 [18312] ERROR - Failed to calculate available disk space for path ‘.grab’: 1 (Incorrect function)
Nov 03, 2017 00:58:00.886 [18312] DEBUG - DVR:Grabber: Saving recording to .grab\9b7ee0c66e1a782c82f03667543bcf38927ae699
Nov 03, 2017 00:58:00.887 [18312] ERROR - DVR:Grabber: No write permission.
Nov 03, 2017 00:58:00.887 [18312] DEBUG - DVR:Grabber: Operation for Alfred Hitchcock Presents - E4 - Cop for a Day completed with status error (No write access to destination)
Nov 03, 2017 00:58:00.887 [18312] DEBUG - Activity: Ended activity 3a1fed77-7d86-4893-977f-b8aea232dc09.
Nov 03, 2017 00:58:00.888 [18312] ERROR - DVR:Grabber: Starting media grab failed.
Which in and of itself isn’t too weird; however, if I manually record a single episode, it records just fine. This seems to only be affecting series recordings that Plex automatically schedules.
Any ideas? For grins I created a new “plex recorded tv shows” folder and have moved all my future recordings to point to this directory thinking that this may be an inherited write permissions issue. If that seems to fix it I will report back (I’ve set up a bunch of useless series recordings so I can start diagnosing this more frequently).
OS: El Capitan
Tuner: HDHomerun Prime
History: 15+ years on MythTv - trying out Plex
Internal Drives
Every so often I get the No Write Access error:
Nov 17, 2017 00:16:48.434 [0x7000010f4000] DEBUG - DVR:Schedule: Trying airing at 2017-11-17 16:30:00 on channel 909.
Nov 17, 2017 00:16:48.434 [0x7000010f4000] DEBUG - DVR:Schedule: Device 0 tuner 1 scheduled recording between 2017-11-17 16:30:00 and 2017-11-17 18:45:00 on channel 909.
Nov 17, 2017 00:16:48.434 [0x7000010f4000] DEBUG - DVR:Grabber: Scheduling ‘Kalifornia (1993)’ for timed grab at 2017-11-17 16:30:00 (in 58392 seconds)
Nov 17, 2017 00:16:48.434 [0x7000010f4000] DEBUG - DVR:Schedule: Attempting to schedule the item ‘Ski Patrol (1990)’.
Nov 17, 2017 00:16:48.434 [0x7000010f4000] DEBUG - DVR:Schedule: Trying airing at 2017-11-20 01:45:00 on channel 909.
Nov 17, 2017 00:16:48.434 [0x700001924000] ERROR - DVR:Grabber: No write permission.
Nov 17, 2017 00:16:48.434 [0x700001924000] DEBUG - DVR:Grabber: Operation for Medical Detectives - E1 - A Wrong Foot completed with status error (No write access to destination)
oh, and the internal “drive” is a JBOD mounted as /dev/disk3 on /Volumes/MediaStorage (hfs, local, nowness)
I’ve chmod -R 777 on the /Volume/MediaStorage
The cure to nearly all my recurring recording issues has been to delete the recurring recording, then re-add it. In my case, I had created some recordings and set them to go to existing folders (of the same show) and that didn’t work out so hot so I created a new “Plex Recordings” folder, then modified the recurring recording to that folder, which created a whole new set of issues.
Finally, I just deleted the recurring recording, made a new one pointing the new “Plex Recordings” folder I had made previously and it works fine.
It appears to me that these 2 items are common themes in recording headaches:
Recording to existing folder (i.e. I was already recording This Old House with NEXTPVR, I decided to go all in with plex, pointed it to the existing show folder and it was very flaky hit or miss whether it would actually record or not)
Moving the location it records to under the “record options” for the recurring recording.
There is an issue with modifying an existing recording to point to a new record location. Best thing at this time is to delete the recording and recreate pointing to the new record location.
Confirmed: Delete and re-add the recording solved my problem. I had also changed folder locations in the background. Should have set up a soft link I guess…
