TV Recording

You can record digital TV programs with a USB DTV dongle (sold separately) plugged into your DiskStation. Before proceeding to record your favorite TV programs, please make sure you have plugged in a dongle compatible with your DiskStation and performed a thorough channel scan.

For the complete list of supported DTV dongles, please visit Synology's website.

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Channel Scan

You as DSM admin or users belonging to the administrators group must perform a complete channel scan before starting to record TV programs.

To perform a channel scan:

  1. Go to the TV Recording tab, and click Channel Scan.
  2. In the window that appears, set up the following settings. Once finished, click Scan to start.
  3. A progress bar will appear in the middle of the window indicating the percentage of completion of the scan. It may take a while for the scan to finish.

TV Programs

Once the channel scan is complete, you can choose to stream or record channels available on the channel list on the left panel at Schedule > [Dongle name] > Program Guide according to your preference.

Programs of different modes are indicated by the following icons/colors:

To record programs:

  1. Click the TV Recording tab, and go to Schedule > [Dongle name] > Program Guide.
  2. Select a channel from the channel list on the left panel, and scroll down or up in the main area to browse through available programs of the selected channel. You can click the forward/backward arrow to view other programs of the selected channel broadcast on other dates. Programs aired before today are not available for selection. You may click Refresh to refresh the onscreen listing of upcoming programs. However, this action cannot be performed if any TV program of the selected tuner is being recorded or streamed by other user.
  3. Select the program(s) you want to record, and do either of the following:
  4. Click OK to apply your settings.

Note: A program whose broadcast time conflicts with another cannot be selected for recording. Only one program can be scheduled for recording during a time slot.

To manage recording tasks:

  1. Click the TV Recording tab, and go to Schedule > [Dongle name] > Recording Schedule. Programs which have been selected to be recorded can be managed here.
  2. Do either of the following:

Recording Settings

Recording settings can be configured with the option to enable or disable priority of TV program recording over live streaming. You can also specify how long you want to capture prior to/after record start/end.

To manage recording settings:

  1. Click the TV Recording tab, and go to Settings > TV Recording.
  2. In the Recording Setting section, do either of the following
  3. Specify how long you want to record before and/or after the recording of the program starts and/or ends in the fields.
  4. Click OK.

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