Thank you for the reply. Strangely I've discovered a simple solution to having a backup network connection with the same IP and the dvr service doesn't mind: both the eth and wifi have the same static IP with both active. I thought it was impossible but would probably produce all kinds of errors but ...

I discovered the cause of the issue but not sure why it's a problem.

I added a script to my startup that disables wifi on the box when the ethernet connection is active. I'm running pihole on the box too and assign a static ip. I want the IP to be the same whether it's connected via ethernet or ...

On May 31st I started having problems with my recordings not occurring. Tuning and watching real-time is fine. Looking at the logs I see "event download failed" errors but I'm not sure why this has started happening. DVR service runs on a Linux Mint-based home server and it's been working fine here ...

Thank you for sharing. This is something I've been meaning to investigate for a while but hadn't made time for.

FYI, this seems to work in PowerShell:

(new-object Net.WebClient).DownloadFile( 'http://192.168.1.41:5004/tuner3/v20.1?duration=6000', 'NUL:')

No error and no file that I can find.