I traveled home and brought by DVR with me. I use a raspberry Pi and external hard disc drive. I set it up and everything was working but it was too slow. So I shut everything down and moved it downstairs so I could plug it in directly to the router and use the internet that way. Now all of a sudden, the HDD isn't being found by the DVR software. When I plug into a monitor and look at the PI it is there and I can access it, but the DVR isn't seeing it so I can't watch recorded or live tv using it. I submitted logs at 28157afb-0330-43f7-97ba-59998aa5139b Please help.
Dumb question but did you try a reboot? It may be a thing where when the service started the drive wasn't available, cable bumped etc. Then when u look on the OS it was detected.
Yes I did. But I know a lot of people don't.
Did u try going in the webui and making sure the storage is selected there? Maybe the hardware id's or something changed if it was plugged into a different USB port. Outside of that I'm not sure...
It is selected there. It's weird. I don't have a monitor anywhere near the router so when I go upstairs I can get it to see the drive, but I have to remove and re-add it. When I come downstairs it's disappeared again. I had set the pi to permanently mount the drives, so I'm not sure what happened. Unfortunately, I think I'm just going to have to drag a monitor downstairs temporarily to fix it. (VNC Viewer won't let me see my desktop so that's a whole other thing I'm going to have to figure out).
I wonder. Does the raspberry pi have to be booted to desktop for the DVR to work properly? If that's the case that might solve the whole problem.
It seems that the pi was not booting in desktop mode because it wasn’t connected to a monitor. Connecting it to a monitor to get it to boot in desktop mode and then unplugging the monitor seems to have fixed the issue.
If you setup your mount in /etc/fstab you won’t have to worry about that in the future.