Hoping for some help, and this might be a dumb question so bear with me!
I have a vero4k and it’s a sweet device. Recently I’ve started watching some tv shows on my computer just because i can use headphones and it’s more convenient (sleeping baby/wife )
A little bit of detail - connected via USB to my vero4k is a 1tB hard drive. This is my source for media for the vero. I have no always-on server or NAS. My computer is a laptop that is off most of the time. The vero is on most of the time. Right now when watching something on my laptop, i map across the network (\osmc\USBdrive) and just double click the file i want to watch, and some windows video player app plays it for me.
I thought it might be a cool idea to see if there was a solution out there where I could have the my progress through tv shows synced between my PC and my vero4k.
So, after some googling it seems emby is a pretty good solution. From what I can see emby requires a client, and considering vero runs kodi, i figured i might as well run kodi on my laptop and then the experience should be pretty similar. So i installed emby on my laptop, and i guess it does it’s thing. I installed the emby-kodi addon on the vero, but then I had a thought: if i try and watch a show on the vero with my laptop turned off, i guess it’s not going to work, as the emby server won’t be available?
So, can i install emby server on my vero (which is usually on), and have my laptop kodi and the vero use it for their database?
or, alternatively, is there a different solution where i can sync what i have watched across both devices?
If you use Kodi on other devices, you could set up a shared MySQL library on the Vero 4K which would let you sync playback status and library information.
Whoa, i read that simple emby installer thread… damn. that is more complicated that I would have hoped for.
However, this shared sql thing sounds like a much easier/more native solution.
oh nice!
ok, excuse my ignorance here.
I have gone to the My OSMC option in the vero, I have selected the Network option, and i see a MySQL nav menu item on the left. I selected it, i ticked the “Enable MySQL VideoDB” option, and i entered this:
IP: 127.0.01
port: 3306
user : kodi
pass: kodi
as the vero is going to be my sql server source of truth… ?? is this the right way to do it?
Very honestly, I had the same issue (not because of the kids, but because i wanted it to work )…
I scrapped the server and use Yatsee as a Kodi remote control on my android devices.
The thing is, with yatsee, you can buy (I got it for 3 euro or so), the extension allowing you to actually watch/listen to the medias on your local device (here android phone/tablet).
Way easier…
In case you want to use a different Kodi instance, then you’ll need a Database server somewhere (Using mariadb/mysql) on my NAS - and I have 4 devices accessing the same DB and Medias for Videos, and 3 more for Music only
And of course the kids access music etc. through Yatsee too.
ahh… i knew there must be a catch. and I see it’s not in the osmc app store either?
OK. time to spin up SSH so i don’t have to try and type using the remote I guess.
i’m going to follow this guide, does it look right?
I have used the above link to install everything (MySQL (MariaDB…), apache, phpMyAdmin), and it all seems to be running as expected. I went back into the My OSMC thing, clicked on Network option, selected the MySQL section, ticked the “Enable MySQL VideoDB”, and set it up as below:
I then back out and try and select the Exit menu item. It then throws up a notification “Unhandled exception caught… please see logs”. I uploaded the logs HERE, but I can’t see any exceptions mentioned. Does anyone have any idea what’s happening?
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