Any chance of adding the capability to record tve streams directly to cloud storage like google drive? And/ or adding the ability to view videos from google drive in channels?
No.
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I'm sure this would trigger all sorts of Copyright issues. Just look at what happened with FitzyTV and all their legal issues
Can't you just install google drive or google file stream on your computer and set that folder as your destination for recordings?
You know I was thinking just that but the disadvantages outweigh the advantage ... too many variables Internet goes down router gets rebooted there are many more problems with recording from local to the cloud.... Unlike Playon Cloud that records from cloud to cloud.
I guess the idea was recording directly would negate the need to manage hard disk space.
Not exactly what you want but I do something similar that might interest you...
I use Rclone and MergerFS to create a combined drive from a folder on my local drive and my unlimited Google Drive. I have a crontab that uploads all of my local files to my Google Drive every morning at 1AM. I chose this drive as my storage path and it plays all of my recordings from my Google Drive. This gives me unlimited storage even though my local storage is only 4TB. My son at college has no problems watching shows remotely that are technically stored on the google drive with this setup.
I also do this between my Seedbox and Google Drive for all of my shows that I watch on Plex that are grabbed from Sonarr or Radarr. Sounds like I'm in the minority here but I have very little to no issues with my internet ever going down or needing to reboot my router. This has served me well for years and has been rock solid.
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I use RoboMirror to do something similar.
Do you have a tutorial here or how to? Does it do this into a certain format?
Yup I did a lot of this. Super duper bonus fact - I point my Jellyfin server at that folder and my Channels recordings are available within Jellyfin as TV Shows. Why do I need both? I don't, but I have no life.
You're not in the minority.
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How to what, specifically?
LOL right now I have no life either.... but I do like to experiment with different configurations etc ..
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Im guessing he means setting up rclone etc. Its an interesting idea but coming into it not having used those programs seems like there is a learning curve.
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This way i can move to my plex or does plexlet you use google drive?
Doesn't G Drive have file size or access limitations per day for upload and download?
I recall trying to use G drive to store and share large files, but kept running into issues of it saying "download limit reached" and such.
And i know Google recently revamped their Gsuite and Gdrive policies, no longer does unlimited drives be a thing. To cut down and combat pirated and hacked accounts they say.
I have unlimited drive via an old university account for life. I think google provides this to a fair number of universities to lock young people into the Google ecosystem for life, so a fair number of people end up having unlimited storage.
I doubt that. Just looking at most tech news sites on the topic, they killed them all off.
there is some limit of some sort, it just may not be visible to you.
With the migration from gsuite to Workspace, they offer space "per seat".
Regardless, even if you have such a plan, no telling how long it will stay "unlimited". And furthermore, most users here would not have a University account. So, my point is very valid, normal Gdrive users have a limit that may come into play if they try to use Gdrive as their dvr storage.
not to mention, most folks are stuck with slow cable internet upload speeds of 10megs or less...so uploading many large recordings will take much time.
Also, that brings up ISP data caps. If you use TVE, that at least doubles the usage to record it from internet, then upload the file to Gdrive. So user with a usage cap, like Comcast's 1TB per month, would not want to do this.
