[black_eagle]

Have the Devs still not made database sharing other than via UPNP intregrated into the latest version of Kodi? We still need to do this complicated MySQL thing?? Must never be happening at this stage. Must be too hard to do or require a full rewrite of the Library code and they believe that UPNP is good enough for most who probably just have a PC Kodi install and a Kodi box under their TV. Sucks for us with 6 Kodi machines in our house! ;-)

 I have 5 kodi instances in my house.  MySql is pretty much essential for the way I have my media shared !  Kids stuff is shared over smb and my own stuff is shared over nfs.  If I were to use uPnp, my own movie and music libraries would be shared to my kids devices (which is not what I want at all).  The way I have things set up, my kids can only access their own media, whereas I can access it all. Implementing uPnP would negate this.  The only other way would be to use Kodi's own sqlite db's and forget about watched status etc.  That kind of negates the reason for using a shared db.  The way I have it at the minute, I can see what I have watched, what my kids have watched, stop and resume my stuff in several rooms and keep it all separate from my kids stuff whilst still keeping an eye on what they have access to.

Personally, I think MySql (or derivatives) are much more flexible than uPnP and I would be more than gutted if Kodi ever dropped support for MySql.