2013-02-06, 19:13
Hi all!
Not sure if I am posting in the right forum, but I had an idea. I've got XBMC running on my MacBook which had a huge amount of TV shows, maintained using SickBeard. So every week new episodes appear, and get scanned correctly into XBMC which is awesome. I just look through my library for any unwatched episodes and grab some popcorn and voila, quality time.
Now I also travel a lot. When I am traveling by train, portability of my laptop is a tiny bit troublesome, as is batterylife. I am sure this sounds familiar to a lot of people. Recently I acquired an android tablet, and ofcourse one of the first things I installed was XBMC for Android. Now I have this vision, I want unwatched episodes in my homelibrary (let's call it just that) to be synced to my tablet, and in the best case scenario appearing in the XBMC library on the tablet.
The way I see this is as follows:
- On the MacBook a service is running listening for the tablet to appear in my wifi network.
- Once the tablet appears a script triggers scanning the watched status of episodes.
- Any unwatched episodes get transferred over wifi to the tablets storage
Just this would be awesome already. Even better would be:
- Once XBMC starts on the tablet the library is cleaned of any missing episodes (as in removed).
- Once XBMC closes on the tablet a script runs removing episodes with watched status.
- The watched status stays in sync between tablet and laptop
I am willing to code most of this myself (if it doesn't exist already), I just don't know where to start.
Any ideas?
Sincerely
Not sure if I am posting in the right forum, but I had an idea. I've got XBMC running on my MacBook which had a huge amount of TV shows, maintained using SickBeard. So every week new episodes appear, and get scanned correctly into XBMC which is awesome. I just look through my library for any unwatched episodes and grab some popcorn and voila, quality time.
Now I also travel a lot. When I am traveling by train, portability of my laptop is a tiny bit troublesome, as is batterylife. I am sure this sounds familiar to a lot of people. Recently I acquired an android tablet, and ofcourse one of the first things I installed was XBMC for Android. Now I have this vision, I want unwatched episodes in my homelibrary (let's call it just that) to be synced to my tablet, and in the best case scenario appearing in the XBMC library on the tablet.
The way I see this is as follows:
- On the MacBook a service is running listening for the tablet to appear in my wifi network.
- Once the tablet appears a script triggers scanning the watched status of episodes.
- Any unwatched episodes get transferred over wifi to the tablets storage
Just this would be awesome already. Even better would be:
- Once XBMC starts on the tablet the library is cleaned of any missing episodes (as in removed).
- Once XBMC closes on the tablet a script runs removing episodes with watched status.
- The watched status stays in sync between tablet and laptop
I am willing to code most of this myself (if it doesn't exist already), I just don't know where to start.
Any ideas?
Sincerely