By Anders Holst:

At regular intervalls there are questions in the forum (in at least
three or four different threads on only this subject) on how to
configure the recording paths so you don't have to set them to the
same thing over and over again in e.g EPG timers. People apparently
forget to set it, and miss their recordings because the harddisk is
full or not built in. They want an easy way to change the default from
/hdd/movies/ to a NAS or a USB device.

I have rebased the patch in this thread from March 23, added two minor
bugfixes, and hopefully made it less controversial by making sure that
it only affects the expert setup level. I don't think there should be
anything controversial about this patch now, and no known bugs. It
only provides functionality that several people are screaming to get.

Synopsis: The patch changes the "Timeshift path..." setup dialogue
into a "Recording paths..." dialogue where you can easily configure
both the timeshift and the other recording paths.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/lib/python/Screens/InfoBarGenerics.py b/lib/python/Screens/InfoBarGenerics.py
index 2f830616..b27df9d3 100644
--- a/lib/python/Screens/InfoBarGenerics.py
+++ b/lib/python/Screens/InfoBarGenerics.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ from Components.ServiceEventTracker import ServiceEventTracker
 from Components.Sources.Boolean import Boolean
 from Components.config import config, ConfigBoolean, ConfigClock
 from Components.SystemInfo import SystemInfo
+from Components.UsageConfig import preferredInstantRecordPath, defaultMoviePath
 from EpgSelection import EPGSelection
 from Plugins.Plugin import PluginDescriptor
 
@@ -29,7 +30,7 @@ from Screens.TimeDateInput import TimeDateInput
 from ServiceReference import ServiceReference
 
 from Tools import Notifications
-from Tools.Directories import SCOPE_HDD, resolveFilename, fileExists
+from Tools.Directories import fileExists
 
 from enigma import eTimer, eServiceCenter, eDVBServicePMTHandler, iServiceInformation, \
 	iPlayableService, eServiceReference, eEPGCache
@@ -1496,7 +1497,7 @@ class InfoBarInstantRecord:
 		if isinstance(serviceref, eServiceReference):
 			serviceref = ServiceReference(serviceref)
 
-		recording = RecordTimerEntry(serviceref, begin, end, name, description, eventid, dirname = config.movielist.last_videodir.value)
+		recording = RecordTimerEntry(serviceref, begin, end, name, description, eventid, dirname = preferredInstantRecordPath())
 		recording.dontSave = True
 		
 		if event is None or limitEvent == False:
@@ -1597,9 +1598,9 @@ class InfoBarInstantRecord:
 			self.session.nav.RecordTimer.timeChanged(entry)
 
 	def instantRecord(self):
-		dir = config.movielist.last_videodir.value
-		if not fileExists(dir, 'w'):
-			dir = resolveFilename(SCOPE_HDD)
+		dir = preferredInstantRecordPath()
+		if not dir or not fileExists(dir, 'w'):
+			dir = defaultMoviePath()
 		try:
 			stat = os_stat(dir)
 		except: