.so I noticed a few things that look wrong
from the log
Oct 4 14:12:28 raspberrypi mythbackend: mythbackend[2258]: I TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:3682 (TuningFrequency) TVRec[1]: TuningFrequency
E TVRecEvent threadedfilewriter.cpp:126 (Open) TFW(/media/pi/MULTIBOOT/LIVE/10701_20191004124717.ts:-1): Opening file '/media/pi/MULTIBOOT/LIVE/10701
Oct 4 13:47:17 raspberrypi mythbackend: mythbackend[28070]: E TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:4647 (GetProgramRingBufferForLiveTV) TVRec[1]: RingBuffer '/media/pi/MULTIBOOT/LIVE/10701_20191004124717.ts' not open...
Oct 4 13:47:17 raspberrypi mythbackend: mythbackend[28070]: E TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:4680 (CreateLiveTVRingBuffer) TVRec[1]: CreateLiveTVRingBuffer(7_1) failed
Oct 4 13:47:17 raspberrypi mythbackend: mythbackend[28070]: E TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:3809 (TuningFrequency) TVRec[1]: Failed to create RingBuffer 1
confirmed with mythweb which says in backend status
Total Disk Space:
Total Space: 0 MB
Space Used: 0 MB
Space Free: 0 MB
so initially I had it defaulted to my sd card and it worked, but its only 8gb so I've put in a USB stick for now, not having a HD ready quite yet.
then I did chmod 777 on it, but still no luck.
I can navigate to the directory and manually add files to it and I figured the chmod would let anything modify it. so I'm not sure what it wants to see here. I assume its trying to make a buffer for live tv and cant create a file hence the error.
Another problem arises from mythtv-setup , I cant delete the old directories the delete key doesnt work? Is there a text file I can hand modify? the wiki insists on using mythtv-setup.
edit: I formatted the usb drive in linux and now it shows as drive #2 with space open. But still no luck in getting it to open files.