[Dagwood]

The set content dialog for source type = movies has an option for "Run automated scan".

I check this option and click ok. If I go back into the same dialog it is again unchecked. By restarting XBMC it does not pick up new content unless I go in and manually check.

Anyone else having this problem

[tom_nuke]

In my experience, this option only runs the scan after setting up this source.

If you go to settings, video settings, there is an option to run scan at startup. This will scan all video sources at startup, regardless of the setting of each source.

This may not be the intended behaviour, but it's how XBMC for ATV2 seems to function. I'm running several devices on the 8/26 nightly.

HTH

Tom

[Dagwood]

Yeah, I think it works better on the nightlies. Scan on startup doesn't seem to work quite right (for me anyway) on the last "official" build.

[Jeff17]

You can also trigger a scan from another computer with the following command:

Code:

curl --data-binary "{ \"jsonrpc\": \"2.0\", \"method\": \"VideoLibrary.Scan\", \"id\": \"curl\"}" -H 'content-type: application/json;' http://IP.OF.XB.MC:8080/jsonrpc

I use that in a cron job on another box to automatically trigger scans on my ATV at scheduled times.

[Dagwood]

Interesting idea. I'll keep that in mind. Thanks.