- January 29, 2007
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I know it's an old post, but recently I added second MP to my house and I was wondering exactly what you're talking about in this thread.
For me about the user problem I would create a set of flag ... Let say that the living room and the recreation room share the same flag set while the kids rooms each have their own flagged state.
The kids could listen to something on one of "my" tv, but they would have to put back the flag... Unless they would get their viewing privilege on "my" tv revoked. When they listen in their room they would not have to bother with resetting the flag.
But really, just having a sync database between two MP would be a great start. Do the database absolutely need to be sqlite? We could use Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition on a central computer.
Edit: I wanted to add that the possibility to have a service process running on the server importing show details thumbnails and everything would be awesome... My Home Server is up 24/7 and as soon as a show get added it would be great to have it indexed right away. That way all MP would have all the information without waiting for indexation. On my Home Sever I'd rather not be running the full MP installation as that takes a lot of RAM. I don't mind the ram MP takes when I'm in front of the TV, but I do mind when it's running in background while I'm working with my PC/Home Server.
For me about the user problem I would create a set of flag ... Let say that the living room and the recreation room share the same flag set while the kids rooms each have their own flagged state.
The kids could listen to something on one of "my" tv, but they would have to put back the flag... Unless they would get their viewing privilege on "my" tv revoked. When they listen in their room they would not have to bother with resetting the flag.
But really, just having a sync database between two MP would be a great start. Do the database absolutely need to be sqlite? We could use Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition on a central computer.
Edit: I wanted to add that the possibility to have a service process running on the server importing show details thumbnails and everything would be awesome... My Home Server is up 24/7 and as soon as a show get added it would be great to have it indexed right away. That way all MP would have all the information without waiting for indexation. On my Home Sever I'd rather not be running the full MP installation as that takes a lot of RAM. I don't mind the ram MP takes when I'm in front of the TV, but I do mind when it's running in background while I'm working with my PC/Home Server.