I read that the Channels server works great on a Raspberry Pi 4, and I have always wanted to try one of these little devices - so have recently bought one! The installation went fine, SSH in and installed - opened the server config window - but I cannot seem to allow Channels to access the attached USB HDD - I can read but not write. Even when I find permissions on the HDD from the Desktop - it does not have Anyone set - but Owner Only. I have googled and cannot seem to find a way of setting permission so that anybody can access the HDD either from Channels or from the Pi itself. I am logged in as the default Pi user. This might be an issue? I would be very glad of any direction. Thank you very much
Is it a brand new HDD or one you were using previously?
Probably has to do with the filesystem being used. If it's blank you could reformat it.
Hi. Thanks for your reply. I have reformatted it as Fat32. That didn't work. I then tried NTFS. No luck. And finally EXT4. Whatever filesystem I use - the permission is set at Owner instead of anybody. And when i select the usb from within channels as a storage location it tells me i have no permission!! The HD is blank! I have tried 3 different USB HD - and all have this permission problem. I have also tried reinstalling Pi - both Raspbian and Noobs - and still cannot get it to work - same issue - no permission to write to the external USB!
Gwyn
What user is the channels-dvr process running as? And what is the user/group ownership of the directory where you're mounting the drive (after it's been mounted)? That's probably the mismatch causing permission issues.
(Also, stay away from FAT32 as a filesystem. It cannot handle files larger than 4GB, and an hour of OTA recording will easily surpass that.)
What does this command output:
mount
I ran into this issue this weekend after i reformatted my drive for ext4.
I had to chown the drive.
sudo chown -R <user> /path/to/drive
that syntax isn't quite right, but glad you worked it out.