The WD Elements line all have their own external power. A good HDD (spinning platters) is completely sufficient for DVR usage; a SSD is not necessary.
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UPDATE (after another member DM'd me to ask for more info)
I no longer run Homebridge and Channels on the same Pi. I discovered that if I had a lot going on in Channels (transcoding or commercial-scanning multiple streams) then there would be a 2-3 second delay in processing Homebridge commands. I also switched from a laptop to a desktop (Mac Studio), so I moved Channels onto my Mac, which is always on anyway (and way more powerful).
So I got a Samsung T7 and went through the setup .. I got stalled with this .. haven't seen it before ..
Any ideas about what to do other than reinstall ?
The usb drives appear under media not shares
Did you image the ssd or are you trying to add it as a second drive?
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Used the Raspberry Pi Imager .. Just replacing the older slower drive.
Neither worked trying to move on.
Says no permissions ? When does 'permissions' get set ?
Try the imager again
Done !
Same result can't get by permissions to set dvr recordings.
Re-formatted drive. Tried again same result.
Raspberry Pi imager is v 1.7.2
ChannelsDVRServer_PI4.img.xz
version incompatibilities ? Will re download DVRServer
SOLVED !
Fresh download of ChannelsDVRServer_PI4.img.xz
Installed it.
The whole setup page came up working !
Thanks for the help !
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Thanks for good advice. I did a fresh setup of channels DVR on my pi 4, this time running on a Samsung T7 external SSD.
It will now record three programs simultaneously and I get a full run on all of them. Definitely not the case with the old WD disk external drive.
racameron:
Thank you for the heads-up ! You were entirely correct, and I fixed the problem with a SSD drive, as noted above.
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