Use NAS as recording dir?

[NoodleNT]

So I have my PC and my NAS. The NAS is where I keep my saved Movies after they are recorded on the PC. The NAS is a little slow for realtime recording but works great for playback. Should I not put the NAS is the Recording Drive list? Say just Video Library instead?

The goal is to have a movie record to the PC and then click a button on the remote to have it copy to the NAS.

[Tomahawk51]

Originally Posted by NoodleNT

The goal is to have a movie record to the PC and then click a button on the remote to have it copy to the NAS.

If you get this working, I'd like to do the same thing and haven't yet figured it out. Please think about posting what you ended up doing. I guess you'll need to use SJQ to do it?

[NoodleNT]

Soo.... don't add the NAS as a recording folder.

I did and my LiveTV video went to crap. It was was trying to write real time to the NAS instead of the local storage because there was more space free on the NAS. I just have the local storage as the recording directory and added the NAS to the media server list. Still need to figure out how to do the move though....

[graywolf]

or make your NAS a recording directory and USE ONLY 0 GB so it doesn't write to the NAS directly?

Although, you still need to relink/scan after moving the files so Sage will know the new location.

Wish there was an easier way.

You might want to look into SJQ to handle the moves.

[nyplayer]

Just add the NAS as an import folder.. since the meta-data is already in the file.. you simply move the recording and do a refresh there are several ways to do this SJQ or external application plug-in it and run a batch file move. It will recognize the file in the import folder as a recording and simply replace the new destination.

[Spectrum]

In V7 the only difference in a recording directory and an import directory is sage won't record to import directories. Just add it as an import directory.

Slugger has written the necessary SJQ scripts to handle moving files to another location. Once you have SJQ installed and configured, the scripts you would need are find_tv_to_archive.groovy and mv_media_file.groovy from here.
You would still need to edit the scripts a bit to tailor them to your environment, but this really is the easiest way.

[graywolf]

Haven't moved to SJQ V4 with the groovy scripts yet.

Does the mv_media_file.groovy still set the Archived Flag when the file is moved? If it doesn't change any of the flags (archive, watch, etc), it might give me more incentive to change to V4 instead of the convoluted processing I have now.

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by NoodleNT

So I have my PC and my NAS. The NAS is where I keep my saved Movies after they are recorded on the PC. The NAS is a little slow for realtime recording but works great for playback. Should I not put the NAS is the Recording Drive list? Say just Video Library instead?

The goal is to have a movie record to the PC and then click a button on the remote to have it copy to the NAS.

Use the external application plugin... configure it create a batch file to move recording. Then you just go to the show you want to move and simply select options external applications and it moves it.

your batch file would look like this.
move "%~f1" "\\mynas\importdirectory"

then a simple refresh will do it.

[Spectrum]

Originally Posted by graywolf

Haven't moved to SJQ V4 with the groovy scripts yet.

Does the mv_media_file.groovy still set the Archived Flag when the file is moved? If it doesn't change any of the flags (archive, watch, etc), it might give me more incentive to change to V4 instead of the convoluted processing I have now.

Yes, it still sets the archive flag.

Originally Posted by nyplayer

Use the external application plugin... configure it create a batch file to move recording. Then you just go to the show you want to move and simply select options external applications and it moves it.

your batch file would look like this.
move "%~f1" "\\mynas\importdirectory"

then a simple refresh will do it.

Unfortunately that won't move any .properties files, comskip files, etc. It will also only move the 1st file if the recording was split into more than 1 file while it was recording. You could expand the batch file to grab everything but I'm not wearing my scripting hat today so no code provided