2006-10-06, 04:38
I currently have 2 xboxes that run nothing but XBMC, but I would like to make it 4. The reason I don't is that it's a pain to keep even the two machines synched as far as the movie and music databases and thumbs. I would be sweet if there were a way to only have to add say a movie with a custom thumb to one machine and have the rest auto update when powered up or something. I don't know anything about coding or the limitations of XBMC and the Xbox platform, but I was thinking something along one of these lines:
1. Remote storage and reading/caching of necessary files (db and thumbs).
2. Some code that copies the files from/to a server at startup/shutdown.
3. Remote access of the GUI to manually save on each machine like normally would be done on any single machine.
There's probably a reason why each one isn't already implimented, but I figured I'd ask since it would seem to be mega-useful to anyone with multiple Xboxes connected to a media server and I've never see it requested.
1. Remote storage and reading/caching of necessary files (db and thumbs).
2. Some code that copies the files from/to a server at startup/shutdown.
3. Remote access of the GUI to manually save on each machine like normally would be done on any single machine.
There's probably a reason why each one isn't already implimented, but I figured I'd ask since it would seem to be mega-useful to anyone with multiple Xboxes connected to a media server and I've never see it requested.