2011-08-17, 11:32
Gents,
If you are like me, then you make heavy use of the great tools SickBeard and Couchpotato. You also have a few XBMC installs located around your house, fed by a nice chunky NAS. You also don't like throwing your money at electricity companies, so everything you've built is energy efficient and you don't like leaving things powered on if they don't need to be. I also hate to have to wait for XBMC to update itself before I can watch my new TV and movies.
Right.
So, to keep my media libraries updated by my media managers, I use a shared MySQL database that all of my XBMC installs talk to. I also run XBMC in a VM that keeps the libraries updated (This is the XBMC that SickBeard and Couchpotato talk to). This means I don't have to have my HTPC's sucking expensive electricity all day, it just means only my VM server is whirring away.
So I thought to myself, why don't I create a tiny version of XBMC that only does the media library stuff and doesn't actually get used for playing any media? This could easily be written in PHP or Python and sit on a webserver, instead of having to have a VM or a physical machine running all day, waiting for library updates.
I figured there will be others like me out there who will find this useful, so I am going to start putting this together over the next few weeks. When it is ready, I will post some code so you guys can let me know if you think it is useful or not. Also, any help or suggestions are welcome from the outset!
Watch this space...
Cheers,
Kai.
If you are like me, then you make heavy use of the great tools SickBeard and Couchpotato. You also have a few XBMC installs located around your house, fed by a nice chunky NAS. You also don't like throwing your money at electricity companies, so everything you've built is energy efficient and you don't like leaving things powered on if they don't need to be. I also hate to have to wait for XBMC to update itself before I can watch my new TV and movies.
Right.
So, to keep my media libraries updated by my media managers, I use a shared MySQL database that all of my XBMC installs talk to. I also run XBMC in a VM that keeps the libraries updated (This is the XBMC that SickBeard and Couchpotato talk to). This means I don't have to have my HTPC's sucking expensive electricity all day, it just means only my VM server is whirring away.
So I thought to myself, why don't I create a tiny version of XBMC that only does the media library stuff and doesn't actually get used for playing any media? This could easily be written in PHP or Python and sit on a webserver, instead of having to have a VM or a physical machine running all day, waiting for library updates.
I figured there will be others like me out there who will find this useful, so I am going to start putting this together over the next few weeks. When it is ready, I will post some code so you guys can let me know if you think it is useful or not. Also, any help or suggestions are welcome from the outset!
Watch this space...
Cheers,
Kai.