Hi all,
I have just purchased an HDHomeRun Connect and a Plex Pass but am having some difficulty in recording programmes.
My setup is as follows:
Plex installed on Ubuntu 16.04 as VM on ESXI host
Media stored on physical FreeNAS box
FreeNAS share mounted in Ubuntu fstab, permissions on folder changed to 777 to bypass initial permission problems with the recorder not being able to write to the location.
Now that I have got passed the permissions problem, I now get “There was a transcode error” in the Recording Schedule tab when I try to record something.
Everything I have looked at to date appears when users are setting transcoding in Settings==> DVR (beta)==> “gear icon” ==> Convert video while recording. I have this setting to OFF. The setting in Transcoder is set to Automatic.
Has anyone else experienced this and able to help me?
Thanks,
matt
Having the same issue with my Volar Hybrid Q - no live TV or DVR functions are working for me. At my wits end here with searching, gotta love beta! If the dev team needs any info I’m happy to help if I can.
I got live tv working without much problem. You need to install the unofficial App Store and from within that, activate the HDHR app (assuming it’ll work with your box). Live tv also works on mobile devices but not in the browser and not as well as the HDHR app.
Still no luck with the transcoding error, I am going to spin up a new vm later and see if it works with a brand new box and plex install…
I have built a new VM with the latest version of plex installed and recording worked perfectly if I chose an existing folder within the /var/lib/plexmediaserver folder structure.
My NAS folders are mounted as root and I tried adding the plex user into the root group but this seems to have broken the transcoding.
I know this is still a beta function but this is far too sensitive at the moment. Can it really be that difficult to get plex to be able to write to a mounted drive?
matt
Figured it out. I needed to amend my fstab to include “,uid=plex,gid=plex” in the options section. This mounts the share with plex owning it rather than root and allows the recorder to place files here.
Just need to get it working on my live plex server now…
