[hippojay]

XonX (Which can be pronounced as "X-on-X" or Zonk if you like...)

Updated: 3rd May 2011

Current release - Version 0.3.4
https://github.com/downloads/hippojay/pl...-0.3.4.zip

What is it?

XonX is a small addon which helps turn your XBMC server into a central media server(ish). Have a single XBMC instance scrape the library, then read that library on multiple XBMC clients.

• Browse movies and metadata from multiple XBMC instances
  
• Play media via the addon...
  
• Supports XBMC authentication (but you will lose fanart for some reason)
  

Known Issues:

• Seeking on http delievered files doesn't work (bug logged: http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/11524)
  
• Watched status and resume time not updated to central library
  

What do I need to do?

• From your central XBMC server, add all sources
  
• On central server, scrape all media into the library
  
• On central server, enable HTTP access in Network Settings
  
  
• On client XBMC, load addon
  
• start addon and browse your media
  
• Select to play on client...
  

How does it work?
The addon uses the JSON-RPC interface to send and recieve messages. This interface is quite fluid in nightly builds, but I have tested this against 10.1.

At the moment I have only tested this with SMB shares and local server media. As JSON-RPS is still being improved for 11.0, then any suggestions could help further that work..


I doubt I'll spend much time updating this addon - as I don't utilise the library functionality of XBMC. It was more of a PoC to compliment my other non-XBMC media server. So if you want to look at the code it's here:

https://github.com/hippojay/plugin.video.xonx

Change log
0.3.4 - Fixed TV Shows - added XBMC authentication (but you will lose fanart for some reason)

0.3.2 - Fix non-ASCII in local filenames

0.3.1 - play server media remotely

0.3 - fixed issue with different JSON responses from 10.1 and Pre-11..

0.2 - inital release