[ehowe01]

A little back story.

I've been running this XBMC setup for over a year, and have only recently started delving into some of the features available. I want to switch over from the SQLite database to MySQL, which according to everything I've read should be a straight forward process. I'm running the 10.1 build from the Ubuntu PPA and I have significant experience with MySQL on Linux, which I've verified is working properly.

I've setup the advancedsettings.xml file as follows:

Code:

<advancedsettings>
  <videodatabase>
    <type>mysql</type>
    <host>127.0.0.1</type>
    <port>3306</port>
    <user>username_goes_here</user>
    <pass>password_goes_here</pass>
    <name>xbmc_video</name>
  </videodatabase>

  <musicdatabase>
    <type>mysql</type>
    <host>127.0.0.1</host>
    <port>3306</port>
    <user>username_goes_here</user>
    <pass>password_goes_here</pass>
    <name>xbmc_music</music>
  </musicdatabase>
</advancedsettings>

I have a feeling this file is being ignored all together as I've tried over riding certain settings from guisettings.xml and they don't seem to change either. I know this is probably something obvious I'm missing, but I've hit a wall. Does anybody have any ideas for things I could check? For what it's worth, I've checked logs and they aren't reporting anything about this even with debugging enabled.

Thanks in advance!

[gabbott]

where is your advancedsettings.xml located?

[ehowe01]

Thanks for the quick reply, it's located in ~/.xbmc/userdata.

Thanks!

[jhsrennie]

Check the xbmc.log in ~/.xbmc/temp to make sure the avdancedsettings.xml is being loaded. You should see something like (this is from my log):

Code:

NOTICE: Loaded advancedsettings.xml from special://profile/advancedsettings.xml
NOTICE: Contents of special://profile/advancedsettings.xml are...
  <advancedsettings>
    etc

JR

[ehowe01]

Wow, I knew it was something stupid. I should've caught it a long time. Error in the XML. Thanks for making me look at the log again!

[tallpr24]

i was able to fix my problem by copying the Advancedsettings.xml to the following path /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/userdata

the only thing i did different is install the kodi 15 from the google play store. in the past when installing from downloaded file it was going to a different path. Please pass this info on to others as i know many will have this problem if installing form google play store.

after i did this, everything works great, no buffer issues and kodi is now reading my Advancedsettings.xml the way it did before i upgraded from kodi 14.2