Warning - Synology DSM7

[nsayer]

I tried that, but it appears to have crashed. The UI looks like this now:

and there is no longer a web server listening on port 8089.

Unless that step takes an inordinate amount of time, I think I am stuck. My presumptive next step is to uninstall, reinstall and restore the DB from a backup at the new location.

EDIT: I started down that road, but the package center said that the Channels package was "manually stopped." Clicking "run" seems to have brought it back.

[mhamdingo]

I decided to migrate today and the installation of the new package seems to have hung. I followed the steps above (do a DB backup, uninstall, update DSM 7, install new package). Anybody else see this? It's been spinning for ~20 minutes and now I'm worried...

Edit: Disregard, didn't realize it was slowly downloading something. It finally finished successfully.

[Pokemon_Dad]

Synology sent me a nag notice about end-of-life for 6.2 next October. I decided to upgrade to 7.x today, as there are no recordings scheduled and I'm around the house. Easy, thanks to the help I found here. Thanks!

@tmm1

To migrate, you would roughly follow https://getchannels.com/docs/articles/how-to/migrate-dvr-to-new-computer/

1. save backup
2. shut down dvr
3. uninstall dvr package
4. upgrade dsm 7
5. install new package
6. grant r/w permissions to old share for new "system internal user" named channels
7. visit x:8089/restore to restore the old backup from the old share

Note that the new package will automatically create a share called ChannelsDVR and is configured to use that by default on a fresh install.

For #6, grant r/w permissions:

@_Mike

I figured it out. For those who might have trouble, here are instructions:

1. Go to Control Panel > Shared Folder
2. Select the folder where your previous Channels installation stored video
3. Click Edit
4. Click Permissions
5. From the drop-down, select System internal user
6. Locate "channels" in the list, and check the Read/Write checkbox.
7. Click Save

All sources automatically restored (two HDHRs and Personal Media including PlayOn Cloud).

All clients found the new installation without complaint (Fire TV and Android).

Good to go! I haven't tried to delete the new ChannelsDVR directory, and may not bother.

[chDVRuser]

@Pokemon_Dad

I haven't tried to delete the new ChannelsDVR directory, and may not bother.

If you chose a different directory than the one the Synology Package created /volume1/ChannelsDVR, I wouldn't worry about it. Synology won't allow you to delete that shared folder as long as the Channels DVR Synology package is installed.

I modified my Channels DVR for Synology package to not create that shared folder /volume1/ChannelsDVR.

Warning - Synology DSM7

I'm still running all mine in Docker Containers. The shared folder cannot be removed without modifying the Channels DVR Synology package. According to the Synology DSM 7.0 3rd-Party Package Developer Guide https://www.synology.com/en-us/support/developer#tool Data Share lifecycle timing is FROM_ENABLE_TO_POSTUNINST The Data Share (shared folder ChannelsDVR) specified in conf/resources Will be created (if it doesn't exist) before the package starts for the first time and is maintained until…

Warning - Synology DSM7

If you're OCD enough to try this... I'm able to get it to install without creating the shared folder /volume1/ChannelsDVR. If you edit the package (it's a tarball, 7-zip works) and change the conf/resource file from { "video-driver": {}, "port-config": "ChannelsDVR.sc", "data-share": { "shares": [{ "name": "ChannelsDVR", "permission": { "rw": ["channels"] }, "once": true }] } } to { "video-d…