Thanks the below worked for me on the WDPR4100... that gives me an extra 5TB of storage to move recordings I want to keep. … 
$url = "http://10.0.0.144:8089/dvr"
$payload = '{"ExtraPaths":"/mnt/USB/USB1_e2/TVREC/"}'
Invoke-RestMethod -Method Patch -Body $payload -uri $url
Can I view a movie that is stored on a different drive than where I am recording on Nvidia shield?
If you are talking about through the Channels interface, only if Channels recorded the movie and still has a reference to the recording in its database.
As has been stated many times, you cannot import arbitrary movies/recordings into Channels. It is a TV DVR and maintains its own database of recordings. It allows you to view live TV and recordings that it has made itself. Nothing else.
How do you do multiple ExtraPaths? I now have recordings in three different locations, one local, one on the backup and since that is full another backup but I can't get the new backup location to work.
nm I had my syntax wrong it should have been:
"ExtraPaths":"/backup/ChannelsDVR:/backup2/ChannelsDVR"
noob question, I run the curl cmd (mac) and got no error returned back in terminal. What can I run to check the ExtraPaths is there properly?
TIA
Thanks, this makes archiving so much easier. Also, big thanks for the TVE integration.
Gonna just look stupid and ask... what do I need to type (exact thing I can copy/paste?) and where do I need to type it (does this go in Powershell?) for Windows to add this location as my second location for TV files? Second location I need to add is...
E:\DVR Location\CHANNELS DVR\TV
Recording primarily to my smaller SSD, want bigger drive as overflow. I understand that my DVR will record to primary SSD location and I need to get things to this secondary location in some way, but I can't figure out how to get the right syntax to add the second location as an extra path.
Thanks for help.
In Powershell, paste:
$payload = '{"ExtraPaths":"E:\DVR Location\CHANNELS DVR\TV"}'
Invoke-RestMethod -Method Patch -Body $payload -uri http://127.0.0.1:8089/dvr
should I be able to modify the extra paths value by just re-running the curl cmd with different a value?
Here is what I ran and it didn't error but it didn't change the extra paths value either
curl -XPATCH --data-binary ‘{“ExtraPaths":"/Volumes/ChannelsArchive/ChannelsDVR:/Volumes/SeagateArchive/ChannelsArchive”}’ http://127.0.0.1:8089/dvr
Yes that should work.
I notice some of your quotes are smart-quotes and others are real quotes. That will cause problems.
Copy/paste this which uses regular quotes:
curl -XPATCH --data-binary '{"ExtraPaths":"/Volumes/ChannelsArchive/ChannelsDVR:/Volumes/SeagateArchive/ChannelsArchive"}' http://127.0.0.1:8089/dvr
Perfect! I tried to copy and paste from your example on comment 6 but somehow it got mangled on the journey over. Copy and paste kills so many innocent bits.
Thanks for your help.
Hi for me the attempt to add a second drive failed using the windows powershell
server version: 2019.07.26.0234
ip: 10.0.0.76:8089
additional path to add: F:\DVR
command used:
PS C:\Users\Scott> $url = "http://10.0.0.76:8089/dvr"
PS C:\Users\Scott> $payload = '{"ExtraPaths":"F:\DVR"}'
PS C:\Users\Scott> Invoke-RestMethod -Method Patch -Body $payload -uri $url
result:
Invoke-RestMethod : false
At line:1 char:1
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (System.Net.HttpWebRequest:HttpWebRequest) [Invoke-RestMethod], Web
Exception
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebCmdletWebResponseException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeRestMethodCommand
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i am unable to see the typo
Is the DVR checkbox checked on the web UI?
I am also having the same problem using this command ...
c:\curl>curl.exe -XPATCH --data-binary '{"ExtraPaths":"/volume1/PR4100/ChannelsDVR2"}' http://10.0.0.176:8089/dvr
false
c:\curl>
Can you check the Log tab to see if an error is shown like "invalid recorder settings"
019/07/26 08:45:24 [ERR] invalid recorder settings: invalid character ''' looking for beginning of value
2019/07/26 08:46:50 [ERR] invalid recorder settings: invalid character ''' looking for beginning of value
019/07/26 08:45:24 [ERR] invalid recorder settings: invalid character '\'' looking for beginning of value
2019/07/26 08:46:50 [ERR] invalid recorder settings: invalid character ''' looking for beginning of value
Ah okay Windows doesn't let you use single quotes as a wrapper. Maybe something like this:
curl.exe -XPATCH --data-binary "{\"ExtraPaths\":\"/volume1/PR4100/ChannelsDVR2\"}" http://10.0.0.176:8089/dvr