I am in the process of changing my Channels serve back to my Raspberry Pi. It is working perfectly except for setting up the storage location. Somehow it was set up as Media/DVR (maybe from a year ago when I was originally using Raspberry). I tried twice following advice that I could find on the support site which was to hit the + sign and put in the new location and then I could delete the old location and now I really have a mess.
I now have Media/DVR/D:\DVR3/DVR. I was trying to do this while fight Pneumonia, so my brain was not at full speed. I want the storage location to be C:\DVR, but I am stuck and cannot delete the above mess I have created.
Can you please help my out my brain fried stupidity and fix this mess.
Thanks WCW
On the upper right under Samba it says USB /media/DVR. Is the DVR stored in the Raspberry perhaps and if so should this be what I use?
Uncheck the checkbox for DVR and change the storage location in the box below
I don't have a box to uncheck for DVR.Can yo tell me where it might be? I can only get back get back to /media/DVR. I tried the + sign again and it failed to create a new storage location. Can I create a folder called Media and the a folder DVR on my C:\ drive?
It's in the Basic Setup section
I am about to give up. My frustration factor is off the chart. I managed to find the DVR button and unchecked it and I still can't get rid of the Media/DVR in the storage location. I tried adding the C: and it just put it on the end of the media path and now the path is worse. And now the DVR button seems to have disappeared. For some reason I can't get rid of the path starting with media. I have now made things worse.
I am getting a no write permissions message
Is it possible the media/dvr is in the Raspberry?
I now have a shares in the path.
Why so I have Media/DVR in the USB which is upper right under SAMBA
C: and D: are windows drives
You can't use that on raspberry pi
I'm not really sure what you're trying to do here
I am trying to manage the Raspberry with Windows. But I guess that is not correct. Is media/dvr in the raspberry? I asked that before but seemed to get confused. If so, how do I get back to media/dvr I am going into the Raspberry on my windows computer 192.168.8.xxx
What is your goal?
You want the DVR to run on the Pi, but to save recordings on to your PC?
On the PI, /media is a folder where attached drives show up. Usually people have a hard-drive attached to the Pi which they formatted using our disk image. Is that what you're doing? In that case there's a /media/DVR folder which is on that drive. If you see "permission denied" errors usually that means the imager did not work correctly.
Okay, I understand a little more. My Raspberry is in an Argon case with a 512 Gb USB built in. This worked great, but I have not used the Pi in quite a while. So, do you have a sugestion as to how I should fix this. I have the latest image. Can I write over the exising one as I don't know much about Linux. Sorry for all the troubles.
My Raspberry is 8Gb
So your PI is booting off a 512GB USB.. what? a hard drive? a usb stick? I guess you imaged that?
512GB is not enough to store all your content. If you want to move from c:\dvr3 you would need to find another USB drive that can hold all those files, attach the drive to your PC, move all the content over, then attach that to your PI via USB.
That's if your goal is to turn off the PC and put everything on the Pi. But I don't know what your goal is.
Yes, I would like to use Pi only. I have nothing on the Raspberry to move. It is like I am starting new. I have a 14TB WD External drive I can use. Moving it is not a problem. Do I plug it into the USB on the Raspberry USB port? But I just don't know how to get the storage path that I screwed up that I messed up. I imaged the Raspberry with a Micro USB on the little port on the Raspberry. I did not connect the 512GB USB until after the Raspberry had the boot image and then your Raspberry Pi image completed before I put it in the case with the USB stick. I guess the best way is to act like I started new from scratch
Okay so you want to setup a brand new DVR on the Pi, with no previous content?
Attach the 14TB to the RPI, it should show up automatically as a new folder under /media. Select it as the storage location.
The Saga continues:
I attached an external HD to the Raspberry as you suggested and I had the Pi screen showing on my desktop computer. As soon as I attached the HD it started showing on the Pi page as upgrading and rebooting. This went on for several hours and I went to bed about 2 AM and it still upgrading. When I got up this morning I found a Channels installation on the desktop computer withe the storage at C:\DVR. The Raspberry still shows as media-server at 192.168.8.229. However, I can't access the Raspberry through that address. I guess my first major mistake was to not uninstalling the Channels installation on my desktop HD. I was going to use that computer's Windows installation to get the Channels off of my main computer but then got the Raspberry running somewhat and decide that would be better. I have deleted that desktop Windows installation but can't get into the Raspberry to do anything. I am thinking about reinstalling Windows and try to start from scratch. Do you have any more suggestions as to why I can't access the Raspberry?
Thank You for all your help. The goal of all this is to use the Raspberry, so I don't have a Windows computer constantly and space issues.
I don't know where to go from here.
I rebooted the Raspberry again and was able to access it through the 229 address on my desktop. I accessed the Raspberry on the desktop and it appear that the media. Well I think it is finally solved. The storage path is now media/My_Book
Thank You Thank You
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From what I can glean from reading your posts, it sounds to me like you are using the Pi headless and controlling it through a Windows computer using a remote desktop sort of affair, eg. VNC? Yes?
If I have that right, then it also sounds like you are getting confused about what's happening on your local Windows machine vs. what's happening on the remote Pi during the setup process.
Can you take the whole remote desktop part out of the equation and hook up your monitor, keyboard, and mouse directly to the Pi for the purposes of setting it up? Once you have it working the way you like, then you can go ahead and unhook the peripherals (except external storage) and run it headless.
I now have everything working through the Raspberry. No Windows involvement except to access the Raspbery network address page. Windows is not connected in any way. Storage is through media/mybook.
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Thank You for all your help. It was a definite learning process for me and I really appreciate the help. I know the dialog in posts was confusing and what I wanted to do was hard to explain. But as always, you got me where I wanted to be. You have a great program in Channels. The Raspberry seems to bring up stored programs in the DVR faster than when I was using Windows. And now I don't have let my spare Windows computer run constantly. And Thank you all for putting with this Klutz.
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