Ability to share and synchronize XBMC userdata profiles between multiple machines

hi.

thanks for that. it looks like it will work, however it isn't very transparent and can be a little difficult to impliment.

but thats the basic idea i would like to do.

thanks

hi

i have the very same issue and have made a simple suggestion earlier this week :

http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin....t=21653

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I currently have 2 xboxes that run nothing but XBMC, but I would like to make it 4. The reason I don't is that it's a pain to keep even the two machines synched as far as the movie and music databases and thumbs. I would be sweet if there were a way to only have to add say a movie with a custom thumb to one machine and have the rest auto update when powered up or something. I don't know anything about coding or the limitations of XBMC and the Xbox platform, but I was thinking something along one of these lines:

1. Remote storage and reading/caching of necessary files (db and thumbs).
2. Some code that copies the files from/to a server at startup/shutdown.
3. Remote access of the GUI to manually save on each machine like normally would be done on any single machine.

There's probably a reason why each one isn't already implimented, but I figured I'd ask since it would seem to be mega-useful to anyone with multiple Xboxes connected to a media server and I've never see it requested.

Hi,

I have multiple Xbox's in my house. And i share all my movie & music out on one server.

Unfortunately I have to add all the Media Info for each xbox.

It would be great if there was a way to "proliferate" this information to all the xbox's.

Even cooler if you could have a "Master XBOX" and see all the profiles and select what movies go to which profiles. All profiles being seen on all xbox's so anyone can log into any xbox and see thier items.

...or have a common database on the server/NAS

There would need to be some kind of subversion client to handle revision changes. Otherwise when two xboxes get the same db you'll only see modifications made by one.

I've been thinking about this kind of setup for a while now. I'll likely be trying to set one up in a week or so. (by the way has anyone any advice for a cheap adapter that will allow xboxes to join a wireless network?)

Webserver/or FTP you could even send and recieve it over samba (I think. XBMC has the client but not the server. However I assume your media server is running it so it sounds possible).

Maybe it would be a good idea to do a checksumon the local Userdata (and save it to some file along with the date and time the checksum was done which will be sent over to the server with it) and compare it to the one on the latest remote database (done when it was sent over) to prevent syncing the database when the xbox is uptodate.

Actually I think this is a function we would do well to look at integrating with Official XBMC release rather than simply being a python script.

Similarly with TV links and XOT.

The problem with synching is the Watched / Unwatched tag. But this is also a problem with profiles. i think the watched unwatched should be in the profile. Then the movie data & profile db's be synced with no problem. And all users can watch the movies on any tv.

what we would need to do instead of synching multiple xboxs is have a global database on the PC that all xboxs use, like a mysql server (or any other format) on the pc.

but maybe that's not possible to do for the devs, i have no idea!

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