Trick for moving/sharing add-ons between Linux/iOS/OSX variants
#1
I have been moving a lot of add ons and their config files from system to system. In My case from ATV2 to ATV1 (running Crystalbuntu), Raspberry Pi (running Xbian).


As I grew tired of re-configuring add ons every time, I arrived to the following solution

This may also be useful for those who want to try to share add ons and their configurations across distros/platforms

Home folder locations for versions I use, yours may be different......

Xbian
/home/xbian

Crystalbuntu
/home/atv

xbmcbuntu
/home/xbmc

ATV2
/private/var/mobile (has a symlink to use /var/mobile


Therefore

on xbian we create symlinks
/var/mobile
/home/xbmc
/home/atv
These would all point to /home/xbian


on crystalbuntu we create symlinks
/var/mobile
/private/var/mobile/home/xbmc
/home/xbian
These should point to /private/home/atv


on xbmcbuntu we create
/var/mobile
/home/atv
/home/xbian
These should all point to /home/xbmc also


On ATV2
/home/xbmc
/home/atv
/home/xbian
These should point to /private/var/mobile
Might want to make /home point to /private/var


If exchanging add ons between atv2 and others you may want to make a symlink for "private" that points to "/" on non-atv2 systems as well so if you (or an add on) go to /private/var/mobile you will go to /home/<username> on that system
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#2
Can you not use pathsubstitution in advanedsettings and share one with all of them?
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#3
Path substitution does not work for add ons, but I see no issues with symlinks
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