HOW-TO syncronize libraries between multiple XBMC via Dropbox - An Experimental Guide

thanks a bunch! I didn't realise that a non gui version of dropbox was available. I've got it working with a symlink to a smb Thumbnails share.

Last outstanding task... I have tried both methods under "Running on system startup" to have dropbox automatically start with XBMC Live, but neither were successful. Is this something that you have attempted?

For future readers of the thread I'm running the xbmcfreak version on a Revo 3600.

I've added this line to the /etc/rc.local as sugested on that page.

/root/bin/dropbox.py start

Obviously, you have to replace the path with the location where you downloaded the dropbox.py script. It was /root/bin in my case.

amsquires83 Wrote:maxinc, you've got XBMC Live to work with Dropbox?

If this is true can you share how you got it to work? I'm struggling to get the Thumbnails folder to sync from Win 7 smb share to Live.

thanks

I got dropbox working on openelec, however I imagine the procedure is near identical to XBMCLive

I followed this guide on installing dropbox through the CLI

http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/Te...nuxInstall

Here is a link that I used as the basis of my setup which includes using a central SQL database for all the instances, and a single dropbox directory used to sync each of the thumbnail directories on each xbmc instance.

http://xbmcstuff.tumblr.com/post/7400497...pbox-style

I am using a mixture of xbmc-live (sam's crystalbuntu image), xbmc on OSX, and XBMC on linux/ubuntu.

I made a couple of changes from the guide;

1) I had to change the permissions on the crystalbuntu image as they use the user atv and has root permissions on the /root/.xbmc/userdata/Thumbnails directory.

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Regards.

How did you get a network path to work? I also have an NAS on my network and would like to server my XBMC stuff from there. When I run mklink command I get an error saying Local files are required. Thanks!

Is there a way to do a selective sync on linux with textmode dropbox ? I cant seem to find out how I dont really want to sync everything I have in my dropbox to my HTPC.