2009-12-28, 02:00
Quote:Originally Posted by firnsyThe NAS is an off the shelf device and only supports file sharing and i so don't want to re-flash it to make it do other things (its a Ethernet/USB external HD not a full uPnP device so low power but good enough for HD video transfer).
Quote:Originally Posted by AndrewishyYes it does require a server to be up all the time (just like your NAS has to be up all the time). The patches should safely fall back to the local database (via SQLite3) when the remote database is not available.
Just one concern about the central db is it will require a server to be on all the time, I'm currently using a dumb NAS drive for my content so don't have another spare server (and I don't think the average user would have one either)
This is an advanced feature set and is not expected to be initially adopted by the average user with a dumb NAS drive. You could always re-flash your NAS and make it smarter
Good luck with the db stuff, I'll concentrate on the exporting of the data as I think these are separate features.
I'll propose something in another thread after some more thoughts