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Hi all,
I have everything working perfectly at home on Windows, ATV2 and iPad2. The library shares over smb and the db is all tied together via MySQL. I also have a couple videos stored on the ipad locally and xbmc is the only video player that can play the big files correctly. I've tried many, many other players and they all have jumpy playback.
Playing these local files works great when I'm at home, but when I'm away XBMC obviously won't start because it sees in advancedsettings.xml to expect a MySQL db. My question is, is there a quick way to make XBMC run when not on my home network, short of editing advancedsettings.xml every time?
Thanks!
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put your mysql server public address in the advancesettings.xml and forward 3306 in your router
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You can also use profiles when you are away from home.
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What about VPN then before you launch xbmc connect your home network via vpn? has the side effect of being able to watch non local stuff if the connection is good enough
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The simplest solution I've found is to just use iFile to rename the advancedsettings.xml when I'm on the road. It only takes a second, and then when I return home, I just name it back. The profile solution also works, but for me, since I'm home far more often than not, it's simper to avoid profiles.
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cody_dingo Wrote:From my understanding, you can only choose your profile once XBMC is running. And with this problem, XBMC won't even start so I can't choose a different profile.
Incorrect. Just have mysql set up on the second profile and not the master profile.
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When you make a new profile the location will be (by default)
var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/userdata/profiles/[profilename]/
So if my new profile is "Away" it would be:
var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/userdata/profiles/Away/advancedsettings.xml
Here's the full manual page on it:
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Profile
But feel free to post here again if you need any more help setting this up.
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I think I got it. Using profiles worked like a charm this time around!
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Was just playing around with multiple profiles on Jezz's new Touched skin and it has all the options you need. You can easily switch accounts while already in XBMC, tell it to show a log-in window at start up, log out at any time, etc.