My Pictures DB and Central MySql Database
#1
I am using My Pictures DB and see that it can be set up to use a Central MySql Database to hopefully feed 3 x OSMC running on Raspeberry Pi(s). Can anyone please explain how?

I have a Synollogy NAS using MyPhp and Maria and this runs the database for Music and Videos for the 3 x OSMC machines. I was hoping that by adding to the advancedsettings.xml I would be able to include pictures from My Pictures DB but it doesn't work. Listed below is the text from advancedsettings.xml - anyone any ideas...? Thanks

<advancedsettings>
<videodatabase>
<type>mysql</type>
<host>192.168.1.103</host>
<port>3306</port>
<user>osmc</user>
<pass>osmc</pass>
<name>osmc_video</name>
</videodatabase>
<musicdatabase>
<type>mysql</type>
<host>192.168.1.103</host>
<port>3306</port>
<user>osmc</user>
<pass>osmc</pass>
<name>osmc_music</name>
</musicdatabase>
<picturesdatabase>
<type>mysql</type>
<host>192.168.1.103</host>
<port>3306</port>
<user>osmc</user>
<pass>osmc</pass>
<name>osmc_picture</name>
</picturesdatabase>
</advancedsettings>
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(2016-11-09, 00:01)jhdeano Wrote: I am using My Pictures DB and see that it can be set up to use a Central MySql Database to hopefully feed 3 x OSMC running on Raspeberry Pi(s). Can anyone please explain how?

Where did you see that it can support My Pictures DB on MySQL database?

(2016-11-09, 00:01)jhdeano Wrote: I was hoping that by adding to the advancedsettings.xml I would be able to include pictures from My Pictures DB but it doesn't work.

There is no MySQL support for a pictures database. There is in fact no actual database for pictures.
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#3
Hi Mulhouse

Thanks for your reply.

MyPicturesDB is an addon available through the SuperRepo Repository. I've been using it for a couple of years and it works well. Since writing the query/thread I have found out how to use MySql with MyPicturesDB - it is under a tab on the Settings menu for the Add On. All seems to work very well amongst my 3 x OSMC installations all using the same pictures and MySql DB on my Synology NAS.

The reason I ended up with MyPicturesDB was that I have all my pictures on a Synology NAS. The NAS automatically makes 3-4 copies of each photo at various levels of resolution and includes the word SYNOPHOTO in each of these new files. If I use the OSMC picture slideshow I could not filter out these pictures and ended up with 4-5 copies of each picture in a slideshow and at increasingly worse levels of resolution.

As said, been using MyPicturesDB for a year or so now but have not checked whether there is now a filter in OSMC/Kodi Pictures.

Regards

jhdeano
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You should post in the My Pictures DB support thread: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=133905

You don't add settings for add-ons to advancedsettings.xml.
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