2014-12-02, 07:11
As far as I am concerned the only real thing missing from XBMC / KODI at the moment is an effective system of parental controls that is wife friendly. I am aware of using different shares, profiles, and directories but that method fits very poorly with my usage case. Not least of which is that I have managed to maintain our watched history for over 5 years and losing that would cause serious wife anger.
On top of this I have a distributed setup with xbmc on 4 devices talking back to a centralised mysql box. I don't want to have the additional complexity of needing different profiles accessed differently on each machine. None of the front ends have keyboards attached and they work purely off microsoft remotes so the simpler and less button pushy the better.
What I would ideally like is to have the ability to have different content accessible after entering a pin. So no pin is all content I have deemed is kid friendly, pin of 1234 is 12 yr old friendly pin 6666 gets me everything. To me this would be accessed by pushing a button on the remote while in Library mode - selecting enter pin - and then on entering the right number the suitable library opening. The library would then time out and revert to "SAFE" after a period of time. It would also mean that directly accessing files via the Video tab would require a pin.
I know that this has been requested many times before. And I know that the attitude has been to use the profiles. However profiles require me to have a different sorting structure to current, lose my current library and watch status and don't have a safety fall back if I forget to log out.
I would be willing as well to contribute to a bounty if that will help this move forward.
Thanks
On top of this I have a distributed setup with xbmc on 4 devices talking back to a centralised mysql box. I don't want to have the additional complexity of needing different profiles accessed differently on each machine. None of the front ends have keyboards attached and they work purely off microsoft remotes so the simpler and less button pushy the better.
What I would ideally like is to have the ability to have different content accessible after entering a pin. So no pin is all content I have deemed is kid friendly, pin of 1234 is 12 yr old friendly pin 6666 gets me everything. To me this would be accessed by pushing a button on the remote while in Library mode - selecting enter pin - and then on entering the right number the suitable library opening. The library would then time out and revert to "SAFE" after a period of time. It would also mean that directly accessing files via the Video tab would require a pin.
I know that this has been requested many times before. And I know that the attitude has been to use the profiles. However profiles require me to have a different sorting structure to current, lose my current library and watch status and don't have a safety fall back if I forget to log out.
I would be willing as well to contribute to a bounty if that will help this move forward.
Thanks