XBMC and shared settings
#1
hi, I'm running XBMC on various platforms. I'd like to have my configuration settings, specifically what things I've watched and not, shared.

Is it possible to do this? I can easily set up the config file somewhere on a shared network location, but would XBMC be able to use this information and give me the same data on several platforms?
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#2
There isn't an easy way to achieve what you want. XBMC only looks for the settings in your profile ($home in *nix, %appdata% in Windows) or in Windows there is an option to use portable mode in which case settings are kept in the C:\program Files\XBMC directory.

XBMC can keep settings on a central MySQL server, though obviously this is only useful if you have a MySQL server you can rely on to be always available.

JR
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#3
I do have an always ready mysql server. Do you have any documentation for how?

It does seem though, that this would be a really nice feature to have, without the requirement of a mysql server.
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#4
eydaimon Wrote:I do have an always ready mysql server. Do you have any documentation for how?

It does seem though, that this would be a really nice feature to have, without the requirement of a mysql server.

The MySQL support is new in Dharma and isn't documented in wiki.xbmc.org yet (to be fair it isn't officially released yet :-) but if you search the forum for MySQL you'll find lots of threads discussing it. I don't use it myself but the feedback seems to be that it works very well.

There is OS support for central user settings. In Windows you can use roaming profiles and I assume some such mechanism exists in *nix. However nota bene that XBMC doesn't support two installations trying to read/write to the same userdata at the same time. You'll get locking issues and possibly a corrupt database. Fixing this requires using a more complex database system like, erm, MySQL :-)

JR
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#5
Ah, sweet. Thanks for the thorough explanation! Smile
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#6
ADding this here for the record. This seems pretty complete

http://lifehacker.com/5634515/how-to-syn...-the-house
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