2013-03-16, 18:44
Income Tax Refund is coming in and I am finally going to setup an Unraid Server to centralize and manage my ever increasing library. One of my goals with such a setup is to finally get sort out my videos so that I can XBMC is the kids rooms to allow them to watch TV seperately from my big screen as well as put one in my bedroom with access to "educational and entertainment" vids for me and the wife to enjoy occasionally. I run a mysql database for centralized metadata and syncing.
What I can not decide is whether I should use seperate profiles for the kids, the master bedroom, and the main TV, or if I should use some combination of tags/nodes/smart playlists. Or a combination of the two (perhaps seperate profile in master bedroom with the adult stuff), and smart playlists in the main and kids rooms. The children ages are currently 9 and 5, so eventually I may allow access to more stuff in the oldest kids room, such as pg-13 etc.
Currently I use a mac mini in the main living room, and plan to use some pivos boxes in the bed rooms for now, and hopefully swap the kids boxes for ouyas when they go retail.
I am not looking for a debate on what is age appropriate etc, as the wife and I monitor what our kids watch. I am looking for advice and pro's - con's of each from others who have implemented some sort of system for their families as well. Ultimately I want to be able to filter the material at each location, with the ability to customize what each has access to, and to prevent (at least a basic level of protection) the kids from bypassing the control, as the school computer labs teach them more.
What I can not decide is whether I should use seperate profiles for the kids, the master bedroom, and the main TV, or if I should use some combination of tags/nodes/smart playlists. Or a combination of the two (perhaps seperate profile in master bedroom with the adult stuff), and smart playlists in the main and kids rooms. The children ages are currently 9 and 5, so eventually I may allow access to more stuff in the oldest kids room, such as pg-13 etc.
Currently I use a mac mini in the main living room, and plan to use some pivos boxes in the bed rooms for now, and hopefully swap the kids boxes for ouyas when they go retail.
I am not looking for a debate on what is age appropriate etc, as the wife and I monitor what our kids watch. I am looking for advice and pro's - con's of each from others who have implemented some sort of system for their families as well. Ultimately I want to be able to filter the material at each location, with the ability to customize what each has access to, and to prevent (at least a basic level of protection) the kids from bypassing the control, as the school computer labs teach them more.
