2015-01-05, 04:45
(2014-12-30, 18:32)Sagiigi340 Wrote:(2014-12-30, 18:16)kuldan Wrote: Well, just to be honest - Kodi is meant to be used with a local library (local as in "in your House") - FTP is wildly inefficient for this task, especially if used over the Internet...
Do you have a recommendation for another protocol? I assume Samba would do better but I cannot use that since the RPi's are connected to different LANs
Well, honestly, no..., or "it depends" - I tried this with a shared libary once, and made every kodi box for that setup VPN (openVPN) into the NAS/Server - and could use SMB after that.
(Another upside was that I could install a shared MySQL Library on that NAS as well, so keeping the Library synced was not a problem anymore either.)
BUT - You have to have a fast upload for this. I tried it using my 5mbit/10mbit connections, and that was far too slow to do anything usable with it - a bit of SD TV streaming worked, but that's about it.
If you have your shared library on the Internet on a hosted server with a 100/1000Meg Upload to the internet, using OpenVPN to connect (or anything else in that kind of setup) might work - but I guess the
RasPI is just too slow for that as well ( I have x86 KodiBuntu Boxes everywhere).
Another upside from using a mySQL database with Kodi is that I can do the library updates from my (very fast) Desktop PC with a nice mouse and keyboard to fix eventual errors in the scraper etc, and make the
experience on the living room/bedroom Kodi boxes fully transparent for my Wife, so the WAF (women-acceptance-factor) in my home for this kind of system is very high..especially after I switched over to Harmony
remote control (Smart Control in the living room, 750 in the bedroom) setups that make it easy for her to turn everything on/off as desired. But I'm derailing...
