RSYNC - Syncronize and backup media data over the network to XBMC

i am looking for a rsync python for xbox so that i can be lasy and back up various stuff from my xbox, such as saved games / thumbs / shortcuts etc.

i found a an exising python script that may be a feisable port
http://www.python.org/pypi?%3....idden=0

thanks ibru

i want an xbox in each room.

i want xbmc to be able to list other lan xbmc instances on other xboxes (like xblive).

i want to know what those instances are doing (video, music, etc).

i want to be able to sync/unsync to that.

thats all i ask.

add me up

you noobies sure ask for a lot considering you've probably used the product ~10 minutes and have not contributed to the community yet, right?

anyway...

this has been and is being discussed via an ajax interface. it will happen but it will be a little while for development.

search on ajax and you'll find it.

(affini @ april 26 2006,00:29 Wrote:you noobies sure ask for a lot considering you've probably used the product ~10 minutes and have not contributed to the community yet, right?

thanks for the positive response. i appreciate the condescending tone. i misjudged my inferiority. you are my daddy.

nsmoller, shut the hell up.
you have probably never or attempted to; contribute to xbmc in anyway, so please locate the off button (you may find it on the front of your pc, but if all else fails just cut all the wires at the back of your pc), and sell the pc to a more worthy user.
whilst we're auctioning off your belongings, please sell your xbox to someone who will appreciate the time and work put into xbmc, and not come requesting (or you seemed to be more demanding 'i want...') pointless novelty features.

---yours flamingily---
jax

jaxter,

i'm rubber and your glue

i have contributed to this community by using the software, tool.

remember there are m$ products that stole ideas from xbmc and are competing with xbmc.

as for "pointless novelty features"...

currently xbmc on a modded box is a replacement for a set top media box that can stream from your pc. it has obvious advantages, but if you pay enough (only a hundred or 2 more), you can get equally functioning product that looks sleeker w/o modding your case.

my suggestions would push the xbmc machines ahead of these mediocre devices by far, and have it rival with expensive & complex high end devices.

imagine having xbmc, but be able to treat it as a controller for multi-room/zoned features. wife's in the kitchen she can set the house to listen the same track so as she moves about she hears it all.

people are in the kitchen, see you are in living room watching a movie & decide to start watching at the same time as you.

so this seems to be less of a "novelty" and more of a vision on what xbmc could evolve into. local use of xbmc is great, but its not too long till windows media center accomplishes these suggestions, and i replace xboxes with miniitx media center pcs.

but then of course, jaxter - you want me to sell my stuff because i'm not worthy.

forgive me for my sarcastic post initially, stating "all i want, all i ask for, etc etc", the humor in it may not have come through

and jaxter, bite me

itunes has this capability... see this from discussion on forum


your system (as you described it) lacks two things:

1. a `push' capability - i.e. the ability to select the music being played in a different room, and
2. the ability to synchronise the music in multiple locations.

apple could add both of these very easily with two modifications to itunes. the first would allow a computer running itunes to be set as a slave - the machine would appear as an airport express station to other instances of itunes on the local network. the second would allow you to send a stream to multiple locations (airport express nodes, slaved itunes clients and your own speakers). i honestly don't know why these features aren't in itunes already.
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by mr i want to go home (610257) on tuesday february 01, @04:42pm (#11544145)
itunes has both these capabilities.

1. requires airport express. you name the airport express(es) as "living room", "kitchen", etc. you can then select these from any wi-fi mac and stream to each one (ie - push). airport express has digital audio-out, btw.

2. you only need one central music library really. you then share that library with itunes. any other copies of itunes on the network (mac or pc) can the see that library and any playlists on it, and play music from it. i haven't noticed any lag when playing music shared this way, even over wireless networks even with 3 or 4 people sharing.

if you require true synchronisation of multiple libraries, then a little rsync is your friend. here's the options i use to keep my 2 libraries in sync (note: i only add music on one machine, so this is a one way sync) - i'm not sure what slashcode will do to the following, so you may have to remove spaces...

rsync -v -r -c --ignore-existing --rsh="ssh" /users/my_local_account/music/itunes me@myserver_name_or_ip_address:/users/my_account_o n_the_server/music/

the one thing that itunes lacks that annoys me is the ability to remotely control another copy of itunes (like on the server) from my laptop. i actually have a script to do this through the shell, but i'd really like to be doing it through the itunes interface.

ahem. well just got home and im up for a bit more flaming so here goes:

firstly what you say is completely 100% wrong, simply downloading software does not mean you are helping xbmc in any way whatsoever. google video link proving this point

also, writing microsoft like so; m$, does not make you 1337, or cool, or hip, or trendy, or show that you posess a single brain cell.

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yes because i want to pay £250 for something that is "futuristic" and silver, but does no more (if less) than my xbox which i can buy for £50.

as for those features, if your wife wants to know whats on in the living room she can just get off her fat arse and come in, surely.

Quote:but then of course, jaxter - you want me to sell my stuff because i'm not worthy.

well yeah thats what i said wasnt it

as for that itunes crap that you posted, in case you didnt notice (judging by your obvious lack of knowledge of anything and everything, i doubt you did) that was for an os (operating system to your puny mind), xbmc is a program, not an os.

i have no idea why people would want to sync the playing medida either. why have two xbox when you can just run speakers all aorund the house and control the one xbox frmo any wifi enabled device with a browser.

sorry to step on your toes, jaxter, but i agree with the feature request.

a) it was a request. if he knew how to do it himself, he probably would have and the post would have something to the effect of "hey guys, look what i did" and i would download whatever he had created
b) i do believe requests are allowed to be made (even if you don't like each request) for features that would add to the usefulness of the software. maybe the first post could have been worded a little differently, but i personally would love to see this feature added to xbmc (if it's possible)
c) i'm not really sure why it is that you think that you (of all people) get to decide which requests are "pointless novelty features" and which are "important" (i guess). for my use of the xbmc software, the ability to play video games is a pointless novelty feature. i have 6 xboxes running xbmc in my house and they are only ever used for videos and music. synchronizing them would be ideal.

thanks for posting this nsmoller - i'm not sure if it could be done with just a script, and i'm not so sure the xbox would be able to stream something quite as complex as a dvd but i'm sure that at least music could be done in some way.