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.

Channel Scan

A complete channel scan is required before you start 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, select both your country and region (if applicable), and click Scan to start.

   Note: You cannot scan channels for a place where you are not located.

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 > Program Guide according to your preference.

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

• Blue: Programs highlighted in blue have been scheduled to be recorded but the recording has not started yet.
• Red: Programs with a red circular icon are being recorded now.
• Green: Programs with a green play icon are being streamed and watched.
• Gray: Programs grayed out have stopped being broadcast and cannot be selected to stream or record.

To record programs:

1. Click the TV Recording tab, and go to Schedule > 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.
3. Select the program(s) you want to record, and do either of the following:
• Click Record > Add to recording schedule. Press and hold Ctrl or Shift for multiple selections. The selected programs will appear under the Recording Schedule tab.
• Click Record > Set up repeat schedule. In the window that appears, tailor the repetitive recording schedule for the program to your needs.
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 > Recording Schedule. Programs which have been selected to be recorded can be managed here.
2. Do either of the following:
   • If you want to cancel a recording task which is now being recorded or has not started, select the task from the list and click Cancel Recording.
   • If you want to remove multiple recording tasks in the past, whether complete or incomplete, click Clear to remove all past tasks from the list.

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
• If you want to record and live stream the same digital TV program at the same time, whether Make TV recording take priority over live streaming is ticked or not makes no difference, because recording and streaming can be performed concurrently when it comes to the same TV program.
• If you want to record one TV program and live stream another, do either of the following:
• If you want to stop streaming a program when recording schedule of another program starts, tick the checkbox.
• If you do not want the streaming of a program to be interrupted by another program when its recording schedule starts, do not tick the checkbox.
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.

Note:

• If you scan channels again after the first scan is completed, the streaming service, existing channel list, and all recording schedules, both ongoing and to-come, will be canceled. Please proceed with caution.
• If one of the users with administrative privileges is scanning channels, you are not allowed to stream or record any programs. Please wait until the scan process is finished.