Guide: Setting up Recording to a PC or NAS

[Devilfish]

How Do I Setup A Mount for Direct Recording?

This guide will outline how to setup mounts for direct recording.

We will assume that the dreambox is setup and you are able to connect via FTP/Telnet and can access the web interface.

Whether we are mounting to a PC or a NAS, we will need a shared folder to record to. For these examples we will use Recordings.

To share the folder...

* Right click the folder and select Sharing and Security
* Check the box that says Share this folder on a network
* Check the box that says Allow network users to change my files
* The Share name: should be the same as the name of the folder


Enable File and Printer Sharing on the PC hosting the shared folder.

* Open the Control Panel and select Network Connections
* Right click the network card and select properties
* Check the box next to File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft Networks
* Select OK and close Control Panel


Direct Recording to a PC

Using the remote select MENU > SETUP > EXPERT SETUP > COMMUNICATION SETUP > MOUNTS

IP: <ip.address.of.pc>
Select CIFS form the pulldown menu on the right hand side
Dir: <name of shared folder on pc><press yellow for capital letters>
LocalDir: /hdd/movie
Options: rw,soft,udp,nolock
Extra: nolock,rsize=8192,wsize=8192
User: <account on pc>
Password: <password on account, if no password leave blank>
Select Automount
Select Mount



A message should appear saying CIFS mount OK!

Save settings and exit from all the menus.

* To start direct recording, select Start Direct Recording from the Blue Button menu.

This may vary depending on what image you are using.

* To stop direct recording, select Stop Direct Recording from the Blue Button menu.


Check your shared folder on the PC and hopefully you should have a recording.

Direct Recording to a NAS Drive

Open your browser and enter the ip address of your dreambox into the address bar. This should bring up the web interface. To mount to a Samba share we have to use the web interface and not the remote menus.

Select CONFIG > MOUNT MANAGER > ADD

Fill in the settings to match your network

The User Name: will be the admin account on the NAS...usually admin.
The Password: will be the admin password on the NAS...usually admin.
(I would advise changing this in the NAS web interface to something other than admin)
If you have given the Recordings folder a password of it's own, you will need to use this in the mount settings.

Select Save.

Click Mount and if all is correct a GREEN tick should appear. This can take about 10 seconds to mount.

* To start direct recording, select Start Direct Recording from the Blue Button menu.

This may vary depending on what image you are using.

* To stop direct recording, select Stop Direct Recording from the Blue Button menu.

Check your shared folder on the NAS and hopefully you should have a recording.

To Playback Your Recording

Using the remote select MENU > FILE MODE >RECORDED MOVIES

A list of your recordings should come up.
Highlight the recording and press OK to start.

[saayinla]

will this work for a 800hd box?

[rsorez]

Thanks again for the tutorial

[jvig]

Still no result on a dm 7020s.
I'm trying to mount a samba share on my ubuntu 9.10
(I'll give it a little more try before I move my disk from PC to dreambox!
)

[zaradoct]

Hi, how can I play my recorded movies that I recorded in my PC by the Dreambox to my TV?

[Norway321]

Thanks alot for useful information!

[dpierik]

How can i change the location where de files or safed?

[satlasertv]

thanks so much

[rayyen]

Great guide, thanks!

[beenieman]

WOW!!
Hello to everyone from Barbados in the Caribbean.
This is a great tut!!

[harky]

like to ask if i use telnet (rounter) to rec will it slow down the rounter connection???

[glenn_ost]

nice guide

[Beppe71]

Hi
I need help to set up my NAS and record on it. I have a DM500C with DK V.1 immage. I have been able to mount the NAS and even play movies from it but I have problem to record movies on it. If I try to record I get this message "Record failed due to inaccessable storage".
I have checked the record paths and tried two different set up: /hdd and /hdd/movie.
Can you please help?
Thanks
BP71

[trampjuice]

I am not sure about DK1.1 but heres my experiance.
I have a another linux box on the network (192.168.1.x) and its got a whopping great HDD attached to it. I have setup a samba share on it called movies.

After many months 'upgraded' to a neutrino image which was great for everything but NAS recording, I have just reflashed an old Pli Jade image today and have been amazed at how great it records AFTER CHANGING SOME SETTINGS.

Record settings:
Description – Media
CIFS, 192.168.1.14
Mountpoint : /media/cf
Server Directory: movies
Username : root
Password :xxxx
Options : soft, rsize:8192, wsize:8192

The key thing I found was to take off all the options you think will make it faster - like sync, linuxext, rw etc..and just leave 'Soft'; Its miles better at reading and writing to the NAS. In fact its near perfect now!!!!!! I think part of the problems with recording are dm500 resources - with a 6mb Image like PLi Jade its prob running far less processes and so has plently of CPU left to record nice and fast even while you are watching the thing. With a 8MB image like Neutrino you have to turn off the cam and even then the result is garbled.

Mountpoint is also called 'client directory' (Its the mount point for the dm500!)

[trampjuice]

Don't forget to change your 'Recording and Playing Settings'
Recordings on --> '/mnt/cf/movie'
or you will be looking at a blank screen and wondering where all the files went and why you can't access them for hours like I did!