2022-10-29, 18:03
I learned that Ember can connect to the Kodi DB.
I am unsure what it does and doesn't, and I dont want to mess up my DB or my nfo files. There was quite some manual work done to get the nfo files the way I want it and I do not want to lose any of it by not understanding what is happening.
So maybe someone can give me a quick intro to what and what not to do?
My usual workflow is:
- create a LOCAL folder for a new movie
- manually add the poster (I prefer original cinema poster artwork so I dont rely on auto scraped posters)
- scrape the movie in Ember to create the nfo and download fanart
- do any manual adjustments to the nfo that I might feel neccessary
- upload it to my NAS
- import the file on the NAS to Kodi
So on my local computer I have a completely mirrored backup of the files on the NAS. Ember only accesses the local files, any changed are done here and are then uploaded to the NAS.
The one thing that annoys me is that the watched status gets lost when i refresh a movie in Kodi (re-read the nfo). So all I really need is a way to get the watched status from Kodi and insert it into the nfo. Preferably I'd like it to be written into my local files first which I then will upload to the NAS, but if neccessary it would be OK to write it to the NAS files and download those then again to my local mirror.
Anything else would be optional. I read it might be possible to access and modify Kodi's thumbnail files. Since sometimes Yatse still sticks to older poster-thumbnails this might be a nice feature...?...
Can anyone tell me what to do?
I am unsure what it does and doesn't, and I dont want to mess up my DB or my nfo files. There was quite some manual work done to get the nfo files the way I want it and I do not want to lose any of it by not understanding what is happening.
So maybe someone can give me a quick intro to what and what not to do?
My usual workflow is:
- create a LOCAL folder for a new movie
- manually add the poster (I prefer original cinema poster artwork so I dont rely on auto scraped posters)
- scrape the movie in Ember to create the nfo and download fanart
- do any manual adjustments to the nfo that I might feel neccessary
- upload it to my NAS
- import the file on the NAS to Kodi
So on my local computer I have a completely mirrored backup of the files on the NAS. Ember only accesses the local files, any changed are done here and are then uploaded to the NAS.
The one thing that annoys me is that the watched status gets lost when i refresh a movie in Kodi (re-read the nfo). So all I really need is a way to get the watched status from Kodi and insert it into the nfo. Preferably I'd like it to be written into my local files first which I then will upload to the NAS, but if neccessary it would be OK to write it to the NAS files and download those then again to my local mirror.
Anything else would be optional. I read it might be possible to access and modify Kodi's thumbnail files. Since sometimes Yatse still sticks to older poster-thumbnails this might be a nice feature...?...
Can anyone tell me what to do?