My new Humax DVR supports DLNA/uPNP built-in which in theory means you can watch your recorded shows (and live channels) on any device with an appropriate client (like VLC). Unfortunately the implementation is flaky to the point of not being much use for recorded programs, but it does also expose access via FTP.
My thought was to copy those files to a device which can run a proper media server (like Plex or something similar), such as my desktop or a NAS.
But I don't want to manually copy things or remove them. I'd love a folder on my server to automatically mirror the DVR so as new files appear it copies them, when they disappear (I delete on the DVR) thy get removed from the copy location.
I have never used it but is this precisely what rsync is for? I am more from a Windows background so I wonder if robocopy or Powershell is better... any personal recommendations how you'd do this?
The only special use-case I can see is that if a program is still being recorded, its file keeps growing and I wouldn't want to copy until recording is complete. But I would imagine any unix-y tool would let me filter where "last updated > 5 minute ago" or something.
My thought was to copy those files to a device which can run a proper media server (like Plex or something similar), such as my desktop or a NAS.
But I don't want to manually copy things or remove them. I'd love a folder on my server to automatically mirror the DVR so as new files appear it copies them, when they disappear (I delete on the DVR) thy get removed from the copy location.
I have never used it but is this precisely what rsync is for? I am more from a Windows background so I wonder if robocopy or Powershell is better... any personal recommendations how you'd do this?
The only special use-case I can see is that if a program is still being recorded, its file keeps growing and I wouldn't want to copy until recording is complete. But I would imagine any unix-y tool would let me filter where "last updated > 5 minute ago" or something.
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