Connecting to Flex DVR from Mac

[dhfessler]

Is it possible to see the Flex DVR from my Mac and copy recordings without having to go thru a browser?

[signcarver]

browser might be the easiest way but you can always right a script to get such the same way which is to essentially "play" the file. The process is to get the list of series ( http://<ip-of-flex>/recorded_files.json ), which produces a list of series that look like

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{
SeriesID: "xxxxxxxxxx",
Title: "The Series Name",
Category: "some category might be here",
ImageURL: "the url to the image",
StartTime: 1000000000,
New: 1,
EpisodesURL: "http://ip-of-recordengine/recorded_files.json?SeriesID=xxxxxxxxxx"
}

then get the list of episodes for each series needed using the EpisodesURL (you probably could generate such request only knowing the SeriesID but since the EpisodesURL is given one might as well use that), which from that you would use the PlayURL to download it from the flex (note you will probably want to also use the Filename property to keep the name of the file as last I checked it usually used the name "play" by default).

If you wish to get everything, such a script would be rather easy, building something to allow specific selection might be a bit harder but still doable.


Personally whenever I have more than one or two files to move I take the drive and connect it to a linux machine as linux properly supports xfs... I have heard of macs occasionally being able to read xfs successfully but generally not write (I believe such requires third party tools) but I would probably take a linux vm approach and give it direct access to the drive. I typically will attach the drive to my nas (most nas's are linux based) as it then just provides access like a normal share would (my nas automatically "shares" the external drive and provides access to certain users). But sometimes I connect it to my linux laptop or a vm running on a computer. The flex using an external drive makes this easy to connect somewhere else but for more than 2 files I would even take apart my servio to remove the drive as the 100Mbps connection of the hdhr's makes it unbearably slow for such copying of multiple files.