Today I went to the Recordings Page to play for a show that should have been recorded earlier and it wasn’t there. There was no listing and no error saying why it wasn’t recorded. I then tried to record a show from the guide that was currently being broadcast. I could not begin the recording and there was no indication or error telling me why.
I spent several very frustrated minutes trying to figure out what was wrong. It turns out the external disk with my DVR Directory was unmounted on the server. I remounted the disk and I was able to record again. Why the disk was unmounted is not important. The fact that it was not available is.
It seems to me that if a DVR server cannot find the location it is to record to, that is a MAJOR (FATAL?) ERROR that should be communicated to the DVR client. Is it possible to prominently display such a message on the client?
My server is a Mac Mini and the clients are Apple TVs.