I have Plex installed on a OMV server through docker. Everything works fine. I just setup my DVR with a m3u stream using xTeve, and again everything is working fine. When I try to record a program, I am only given “Movies” as the recording location. How can I get more in the drop down list? I have an active TV folder which works fine in Plex but its not showing as an option. Any ideas?
Is your TV folder showing if you use the web interface? I think there is a bug that is causing this. If it does not show in the web interface then make sure that your TV folder is configured as TV and not Movies.
I’ve tried through the web interface as well as my iPhone. Both cases I only have the movies folder to choose from.
and my TV folder is definitely configured for TV shows and not movies.
If what you’re trying to record is a Movie, Plex will only allow you to put it in Movies. You can’t aim it at your TV Show library, for instance.
Also - it is a good idea to ‘create’ a folder for DVR Material in each library:
DVR Shows
DVR Movies
then aim Plex at those locations - to keep your DVR stuff together and separate from everything else. I think so anyway.
Yeah I used to have this when I had Plex installed on an ubuntu machine. Now its in docker which I’m still getting used to. I don’t know if that is contributing to the problem. With the docker compose I can only load a volume for movies and tv shows, at least I think so?
Just create a DVR folder in each library.
With the right permissions it should be a snap aiming Plex DVR at them… and you only need to do it once (for each type):
The folders you create can be empty - just add them to the libraries so they are a valid destination.
Also - don’t make the root of your volumes a library.
Libraries need to be in folders off the root - or Plex may misbehave.
I tried mounting a new volume to the Plex container in docker, which was my old Plex DVR folder. I recreated the container, everything working fine. I added the new folder for TV shows, and still the only option I have in the live TV guide is to record in “movies”…
We’ll need some Linus-Doctors - and I don’t want to kill any more patients this year…:
Will Doctors:
Please report to the hospitality tent.
if those aren’t the specialists you need - they probably know who is. I’ll annoy them once and we’ll see what happens.
Thanks. I checked permissions on all the folders and chmod 777’d all of them just to make sure. Still no dice
Are you using XMLTV guide data? If so, open the XML file in a text editor and find the details for one of the episodes which you’re attempting to record. It should look something like this:
<programme start="20210227100000 -0500" stop="20210227103400 -0500" channel="40.2.hdhomerun.com">
<title>Night Gallery</title>
<sub-title>Echo of a Distant Scream</sub-title>
<desc>A woman sees visions of a rearing white horse.</desc>
<icon src="http://img.hdhomerun.com/titles/C452414ENKPPL.jpg" />
<episode-num system="original-air-date">1972-03-31 19:00:00</episode-num>
<previously-shown start="1972-03-31 19:00:00" />
</programme>
The important piece here is the <episode-num> element. This is how the Plex DVR knows it’s dealing with a series, and not a one-off program. If it’s missing, the DVR will only allow you to record that item to a movie-type library.
I’m using XML data from the IPTV provider which comes as a URL. If you can help me to navigate to where the file would be on my server, I’ll open it up. I tried looking in the app data folder but its not there. Thanks in advance
If you manually navigate to the provided URL, in your browser, does display the XML data? Or perhaps download the file locally?
I’ve asked the IPTV provider to see if their XML file carries the episode numbers. Looks like this could be the issue. I added a DVR folder under the Movies category instead of TV, and indeed this folder was now accessible when I went to record a show. I think I’ll look into a 3rd party EPG to get better data. Thanks all!
In case anyone else has this problem in the future, here is my fix. Indeed the problem came down to the quality of the information in the XML file from the IPTV provider. I tried Stream-editor and it did not help. So I went with EPG-IPTV and managed to get a complete XML file with good quality data. I will say that there are still instances of Plex not interpreting certain shows properly and it still defaults to the movies folder, so I created a DVR folder in Movies to at least segregate the files. If I find a better solution I’ll update but so far this is working well.
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