[LINUX] xbmc server: possible quick implementation?

Eden is in feature lock and debug. This will (if it works) make it into frodo.

once it made it into frodo (fingers crossed again) there should be enhancements to the JSON RPC to be able to manage media data headless too.

think about the possibilities:
Edit all data within XBMC WebInterface without the need of an external tool (and without PHP/MYSQL connection). XBMC keeps full control over the DB and no third-party software needs to be adjusted when the DB structure changes.
Implement some transcoding and you could watch your movies directly in the WebInterface in a HTML5 enabled browser.
sooo many possibilities!!!11

Robotica Wrote:You can create a pull request on github for inclusion...

okeydokey, i'll look into doing that, then.

Robotica Wrote:Great No-GUI-approach to have some extra xbmc power.. And can you tell something about the impact on system resources? And given your topic title, is this Linux-only?

i haven't really had a look at that side of things yet, to be honest. generally, it hasn't impacted on the system that it's on, though - it's an email/web/file/print server and everything seems to be running as it was before. that said, ps suggests that it's using a lot of one core of the cpu (although that might be because i've got it scanning at the moment). Uses bugger-all memory, though (less than a single php-fpm thread). there's no visible slowdown in the performance of the machine, though, despite the high cpu. it does suggest that there may be optimisations in there somewhere that can be made to bring that down. that'll probably need to be done by someone who actually knows c++ though!

as to linux-only, my initial thinking looked like it would have to be, but i think that it's actually likely to work on any platform as i've not had to change anything platform-specific with the latest git codebase. i'd suggest you give it a try on other platforms and see if it works for you

this code is now forked at https://github.com/blades/xbmc if anyone wants to have a look/play with it.

i'm currently recompiling for a quick test before i create a pull request.

don't forget to start it up with --server --no-test options. i usually use --nolirc as well.

Wicked, this looks like it's exactly the thing I'm after.
A headless server managing sickbeard, couchpotato, xbmc scrapes of new content etc...

I'll be keeping an eye on this as I start to think about what headless machine to go for.

This is exactly the type of thing I have been looking for.

But how do you configure the sources/webUI/library details without a GUI? I assume there must be a text file or something that I need to edit?

Thanks

Edit:

Found it, I need to fiddle with guisettings.xml and sources.xml in the user data folder.

bladesuk1 Wrote:as to linux-only, my initial thinking looked like it would have to be, but i think that it's actually likely to work on any platform as i've not had to change anything platform-specific with the latest git codebase. i'd suggest you give it a try on other platforms and see if it works for you

I'm on Linux ;-) but you topic title could be misleading to other platform users...

Too bad your pull request doesn't get the attention it deserves: It's a much wanted feature and it would be great if some devs had a look at it...

Robotica Wrote:I'm on Linux ;-) but you topic title could be misleading to other platform users...

yeah... i did better than i thought i was going to

Robotica Wrote:Too bad your pull request doesn't get the attention it deserves: It's a much wanted feature and it would be great if some devs had a look at it...

i would imagine that they're busy putting the finishing touches to eden, so it might get some love later. but yeah, you'd think that there might be a bit more interest given the number of requests made for this functionality! to be honest, i reckon that it'll still need some tweaking to work properly, but as no-one else has tried it yet i can't really do much about it as (in all honesty) i'm not even sure what i'm testing at this point! i know i can use mediafrontpage to view the library, so browsing works, but i've not tried adding anything through it yet as i've not had much time of late to play with it due to a new baby at home raising hell. might get a chance over yule with a bit of luck...

bladesuk1 Wrote:i would imagine that they're busy putting the finishing touches to eden, so it might get some love later. but yeah, you'd think that there might be a bit more interest given the number of requests made for this functionality! to be honest, i reckon that it'll still need some tweaking to work properly, but as no-one else has tried it yet i can't really do much about it as (in all honesty) i'm not even sure what i'm testing at this point! i know i can use mediafrontpage to view the library, so browsing works, but i've not tried adding anything through it yet as i've not had much time of late to play with it due to a new baby at home raising hell. might get a chance over yule with a bit of luck...

Yes I imagine the devs are a little busy atm, but your right, there is a quite a few people that use mysql database so there will be a lot of interest in this.

I am just getting it up and running at the mo, hopefully I will be able to give some feed back soon.

congratulations on the kid

I shared your solution in 2 other topics:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=105883
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=111486

Hopefully, you get some feedback.