Ability to share and synchronize XBMC userdata profiles between multiple machines

i'm doing a nas (network attached server) which is basically a crappy old pc with a few hds in it attached to a router with win xp and smb set up.

i then have multiple xboxes with xbmc and stream to each. all xboxes have a common xboxmediacenter.xml which have bookmarks pointing at the nas

that does what you want to do!

that's not what he meant.

he meant he wants his mymusic.db, myvideos.db, etc stored on a network location and not locally on his xbox.
he then could access the database files from all the other xboxes in his home.

not sure if this is possible..

(scape @ april 18 2006,12:26 Wrote:he meant he wants his mymusic.db, myvideos.db, etc stored on a network location and not locally on his xbox.
he then could access the database files from all the other xboxes in his home.

yeah, that's exactly what i meant -- keep the databases on the server somewhere.

nsmoller, your answer is basically what i already do -- my entire video and dvd library is on the mythtv server, and i use xbmcmythtv for the recorded television. i don't actually have a mythtv front end anywhere. it works supurbly. the only missing piece of the puzzle is the shared databases for the several xboxes, which could live happily on the mythtv server since it's always on.

i've got a couple of xbox's at home that i use primarily to play movies, tv shows and music from a small server computer. can i use common xbmc databases for both?
what i mean is, can i tell xbmc to store the video database file on my server (perhaps the whole user data folder), so both instances of xbmc will pull information from the same database?

i realize that this probably isn't possible right now (i'm pretty sure it's not), is this a feature that could end up in a future build?

i can see how having the user data folder on a remote computer might cause problems if xbmc is running and the remote computer is turned off, maybe xbmc could keep a local cache of the remote user data folder?

would any of this be possible? or have i smoked too much crack again?

if you had both xboxes with the same info in settings and say they pointed to a smbshare certainly but it would be slow as hell as they tend to cache and the transfer alone... well you get the idea.

but by all means give it a try.

sorry, it was my understanding that each instance of xbmc stores its databases inside the xbmc/user data folder.
how do i tell xbmc to look for the user data folder on a samba share? i can't see any reference to it in xboxmediacenter.xml

could edit source... mainly settings.cpp but in the whole of the code there are 115 references scattered for the userdata.

of course if you edited the source code and did a compile and then installed that xbe on 2 xboxes they would both access the same userdata folder.. in fact they would mirror settings and the like for the lot.

seems much easier just to create a script to sync them periodically...

hi all

i was wondering is there a way to have a centralized database of thumbnails or a way to updated the thumbnails database etc.

i have 4 xboxes at home all looking at the same server. is it possible to have all the xboxes gather or synchronise the data between themselves. or to have an option to upload databases to other xboxes transparently.

even if one xbox has to be set as master.

but preferably having a network share that all the xboxes point to. but to also have them cached to the local hdd in the event the server is down.

i hope this makes sense.

thanks

i am guessing you use xbmc itself to acquire your thumbs? with so many boxes, it is a better idea to put the thumbs in with the media.
http://www.xbmc.xbox-scene.com/wiki/inde...thumbnails
this is how i do it and it's very nice & easy once you get through the initial annoyance of having to go get icons and rename them as needed.