central place for data (1 Viewer)

[dorijan]

Hi!

I really love your plugin, but it would be great if you could have a central place (windows share) where all data would be stored, so if you have more than one computer you would not have to search on all computers...something like tv server
this would be great for the movies too

 

[dorijan]

I modified MediaPortalDirs.xml and put thumbs and database on shared folder...and will try this way

 

[jonaskp]

I would really like how that works out for you.
Right now (as of last weekend) I have all my series stored on my server. Sometimes the clients have lost track of the files, and has to do a full rescan of all the series. If you could have the database stored on the server and every client could just connect to this, it would be great.
I tried changing the database path to a folder on the server. but I can't see if this has any affect at all.
It would also be great to be able to keep the FanArt on the server, instead of maintaining seperate collections for all the clients.

 

[dorijan]

I modifed MediaPortalDirs.xml
and set for example

<Dir id = "Database">
<Path>\\server\tv_series\database\</Path>
</Dir>

 

[allanp81]

This won't work with multiple clients accessing it, trust me. The sqllite that is used to write to the database can't handle multiple connections like that and you end up with data loss.

 

[Juppe]

But if you just let one client write to the database and the others just read or is there any writing when you go into My TVSeries. In other words, you set one client as server/master over the database and the others as clients, wouldn't that work?

 

[dorijan]

yes...i have setup like that...one write...read many
but it woud be nice if it could be implemented through tvserver and you could define all that in there...

 

[Juppe]

dorijan, that was just what i meant, my post was an answer to allanp81 about multiple writing to the database, I hope that the dev will have a look at this.

/Juppe

 

[allanp81]

They write as far as I'm aware, as things like whether things have been watched etc. are recorded.