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2010-01-26, 17:26
I've setup a script on my file server to do this, and I've found it massively useful. Once an hour my library is updated, and then cleaned, meaning that anything that has downloaded via RSS, is added to my library without my interaction.
Just a suggestion that it should be a feature, rather than a cron-job script, as I've done it.
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2010-02-04, 17:04
Hi folks...
I've been doing tons of research into how to solve my issue.
And hoping to find out if the following case is true -
Doesn't matter if we use xbmc events or http to send a request to update the library, unless xbmc is actually running - it will not/cannot update the video library?
The reason I ask is -
I have a script that wakes up the server, runs some other scripts (moves files to my video folder) then turns the server off again.
The server boots directly into MythTV 0.22 (Mythbuntu) from startup (as it is a mythtv frontend/backend) and XBMC is an option in the main menu - runs (by exec /usr/bin/xbmc) on demand.
But during this wakeup period (6am) obviously xbmc is not running.
I have tried the xbmc-send to update the library as final script before shutdown, but when I then turn on and run xbmc the library has not been updated.
Does anyone know how I can get xbmc's library to accept an update request in this scenario? The machine wakes up for 1 hour or so to do it's stuff then shutsdown.
I don't leave this server on 24/7 - I turn it on when I want to watch mythv/xbmc.
Any advice would be appreciated!!
Thanks
Alessandro
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Thanks Alex!. The XML is part of what I was looking for.
However I start my XBMC PC and leave it running, often for weeks. I want to schedule a scan (of all of my SMB shares), say at 2am daily. Any idea how to do that?
Keith
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The addon works great! thanks!