2022-04-22, 00:29
I'm trying to get multiroom working smoothly and I'm wondering what is the ideal setup for server and clients. It seems like the server has to always be powered on for the clients to get guide info and playback channels, right?
That's too bad because I was hoping to create channels on my Windows PC (which is not always on) that could be accessed on my 2 Nvidia Shields. The media itself is located on a NAS that is always on and accessible by both devices through SMB. I could just create the channels on one of the Nvidia Shields, but neither one is always powered on and I would like the guide to be synced.
After digging around a bit, I tried setting the "Centralized file location" under options to be a shared location on the NAS for both the PC and the Shield. The M3U and XML files created by PseudoTV were correctly saved there, but I was hoping that having access to the M3U & XML would allow the Shield to show the guide and playback the media over SMB without connecting to the PC. Should that have worked or not?
Since I can't leave my Windows PC running all the time, I might try setting up a Raspberry Pi as the always-on PseudoTV server, maybe running LibreElec. I also thought about running a web client version of Kodi on my NAS, and I found a docker container that would do just that (https://github.com/matthuisman/docker-kodi-headless/) but I couldn't figure out how to install third-party add-ons once I got it up and running.
Let me know if you have any suggestions. And I really appreciate your work on the add-on; it's great!
That's too bad because I was hoping to create channels on my Windows PC (which is not always on) that could be accessed on my 2 Nvidia Shields. The media itself is located on a NAS that is always on and accessible by both devices through SMB. I could just create the channels on one of the Nvidia Shields, but neither one is always powered on and I would like the guide to be synced.
After digging around a bit, I tried setting the "Centralized file location" under options to be a shared location on the NAS for both the PC and the Shield. The M3U and XML files created by PseudoTV were correctly saved there, but I was hoping that having access to the M3U & XML would allow the Shield to show the guide and playback the media over SMB without connecting to the PC. Should that have worked or not?
Since I can't leave my Windows PC running all the time, I might try setting up a Raspberry Pi as the always-on PseudoTV server, maybe running LibreElec. I also thought about running a web client version of Kodi on my NAS, and I found a docker container that would do just that (https://github.com/matthuisman/docker-kodi-headless/) but I couldn't figure out how to install third-party add-ons once I got it up and running.
Let me know if you have any suggestions. And I really appreciate your work on the add-on; it's great!
