[archie456]

Hi,

I have OpenElec Isengard running on a Raspberry Pi2, along with another OpenElec Helix also running on a Raspberry Pi2 in another room.

Both installs connect to a Windows 7 PC which stores all my video, movies, pictures and also runs a MediaPortal backend which I record TV with.

Everything works really well apart from a network problem which pops up every few weeks or so - this stops things working and I have to reboot the Windows 7 PC to get things working again.

The problem manifests itself randomly after a period of time, I find it when I click on a movie and all of a sudden Kodi states that it cannot play it and asks if I want to remove it from the library - no movies / videos will play, the same for any music.

But strangely, if I click on Live TV and select recordings they all play just fine.

Nothing I do from the Raspberry PI2 will fix the problem - the only way to get things working again is to reboot the Windows 7 Desktop - and then everything works fine again for a week or two and then problem happens again.

If I reboot the Raspberry Pi2 before rebooting the Win 7 machine it will hang after a few minutes (though I can still connect to it and reboot it using PuTTy).

The problem occurs on both PI2's at the same time.

Attached are two log files:

http://chopapp.com/#d6phupmo

http://chopapp.com/#6qg321ht


In the logs I played an Abba track - I can find a reference in there which states:

Code:

21:49:58  80.564857 T:1967816704   DEBUG: CSMBFile::Open - opened filestorage/Personal/Music/Now That's What I Call! Christmas/CD3/21. Abba - Happy New Year.mp3, fd=-1
21:49:58  80.565155 T:1967816704    INFO: SMBFile->Open: Unable to open file : 'smb://USERNAME:[email protected]/filestorage/Personal/Music/Now%20That%27s%20What%20I%20Call!%20Christmas/CD3/21.%20Abba%20-%20Happy%20New%20Year.mp3'
                                            unix_err:'6e' error : 'Connection timed out'
21:49:58  80.565308 T:1967816704   ERROR: Init: Error opening file musicdb://artists/773/268/915.mp3?albumartistsonly=false&albumid=268&artistid=773
21:49:58  80.565430 T:1967816704   ERROR: CAudioDecoder: Unable to Init Codec while loading file musicdb://artists/773/268/915.mp3?albumartistsonly=false&albumid=268&artistid=773
21:49:58  80.565605 T:1967816704 WARNING: PAPlayer::QueueNextFileEx - Failed to create the decoder

I also played a Father Ted episode, I can find no reference in the log to that.


Any ideas whats happening - this is the only thing which is letting my Kodi system down - otherwise it performs great - I'm banging my head against a wall at the moment!

Any help would be appreciated.

[popcornmix]

Possible solution here:
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...pid1060307

[bledd]

I highly recommend buying a Synology NAS.

This way you can use NFS shares and easily have a centralised database, so you can stop a film in one room, then continue it in another. Also keeps the 'watched' flags throughout the house. Great stuff!

[archie456]

Possible solution here:
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...pid1060307

I've given the solution a go, I'll report back on whether it works...

[archie456]

Well the solution in post 2 seems to have worked - excellent!

Thanks for your help.