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TL ; DR: Movie night with the Hue, Alexa and Broadlink didn't work!

Now for the long bit!

Bit of an update:

Things that didn't 'go to plan'!

Tried using the Broadlink rm mini 3 and.... lets just say it had one job, and did it badly (read not working at all!)

I tried the Hue add-on for Kodi, and it just dimmed the lights when it was a video file (read PVR/Youtube/Music videos ET AL!), so, again couldn't do it!

I also wanted to be able to stream my content to my IOS devices when I'm off site, so tired Emby, tried both add-ons, and I now fully appreciate why Team Kodi doesn't like the database touched by add-ons (rouge or otherwise) not only that Emby erased ALL my tract.tv data (not good!)

But things that did!

Changed folder shares from NFS to SMB, which now means that my Mac, my Windows VM AND my two Kodi instances now can see the folder shares without resorting to the dark arts of CLI commands in MacOS or adding features in Windows 10!

Installed Plex Server as a separate VM for those offsite usages, and was able to permanently mount the folder shares, so all transcoding is done separately, as well as that my MySQL databases and Plex Server are separate. 

Lastly, TVheadend is now updated to Ubuntu 18.04!

Lets just say, I got bored one week LOL