[Lunatixz]

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?

You'll find a lot of information contained in the readme file.

Currently PseudoTV Live supports two methods for multi-room. Shared network folder "Centralized file location" or remote path (Auto Discovery) which accesses a hosted m3u/xmltv via your server instance of PseudoTV Live.

Before you can consider using Multi-Room your Kodi instances have to already be configured to use a centralized MySQL database and shared sources.xml with all paths network accessible. Information and links are found in the readme file.

Needless to say, your media server has to be accessible at all times! This is a good place to install Kodi and run an instance of PseudoTV Live as a server. You CAN NOT run headless, there are NO official headless Kodi builds, and even if there were. You would have no way of configuring PseudoTV Lives settings/channels via a headless option.

The server instance of PseudoTV Live will generate all files necessary for its clients and is best left running along with the media server to guarantee files are kept up to date. Keep in mind only the server instance of PseudoTV Live can configure channels, clients are dummy endpoints that handle playback and assist in configuring Kodi.