"Follow Me", save a bookmark or playlist on a XBMC machine and resume it on a other?

Most of this "follow-me" requests make the assumption that the user lives alone, it seems; or simply ignore conflict management.

Making ALL your XBMC instances do the same thing would equate to locking them all up from other potential users. A simpler solution would be to get yourself a whole-house sound system or such.

The nice thing about multiple frontends is that each one can function independently, using the same storage backend or not.

I'm all for WAF since that's what allows me to continue experimenting with projects like XBMC, but i really don't think the wife would like for her movie or tv show to be stopped because i suddenly decided to listen to some music while roaming across the house.

This request looks like a nice idea on paper but quickly falls short in real life. i don't think you'd want to "plot" your course through your house on a UI just to make sure that out-of-plot instances get left alone.

Bookmarking and resuming on another instance seems much more feasible (and only useful for video, really).

But then maybe not everyone has a family.

I don't think that problem is insurmountable.

What about leveraging the User Profile against a centralized database that reports the actions from all users? To activate the "Follow Me" function, a user would simply sign in to the room they're currently in, 'reporting' their current position to the network. Such a sign in would sign out that same user from the previous room, like Yahoo IM. In particular, this function might not require a password to move to another room to make it easier to move. Also the profile itself would maintain the bookmarks necessary to pick up on for the "Follow Me" function.

In the effort to not require centralized, network-based code in XBMC, a discovery script that would enable and disable this centralized code through the GUI when other XBMC units are recognized on a network could be enabled with a new heading from the main menu such as "Network". There the sign in/follow me function, as well as future functions such as remote administration/control or transfer control could be enacted.

I'm not a programmer, but is this feasible?

Multiroom audio is an addon currently available...

Now we don't have a simple resume functionality. We need to talk about it first. And not only about movies, about music and audiobooks as well.

Resuming where left on each audiobook (or music) folder would be a great deal.

I think a plug in could pass these settings over the network wire as well so you have it in every room. Not a difficult staff for someone who knows python for XBMC...

Take care