For a while the Vero V worked perfect, but now it has started to freeze at random places while browsing content.
It can freeze when browsing in the “video” folder amongst my media sources. Its not that the HD is sleeping because it can happen randomly even after I go back and forth into a folder I was just inside, so I know the HD is awake.
So im browsing, and all of a sudden it freezes, and no input will unfreeze it, I just have to wait. And If I did an input during the freeze - when the system comes back - it will execute the inputs made like they are stacked/buffered. It also seems random because the freeze can happen when starting playback, when stopping playback, when browsing into a folder.
It does not freeze when browsing titles through Movies→Titles. This makes me think it has something to do with the sharing.
What have I done:
I made a backup of the Vero 4k+ and restored that to the Vero V
I made a new .kodi folder and dropped my userdata into that and removed the old one
I have looked around in the folder structure so there is no huge file stuck anywhere in a temp-folder etc.
I have tried both Estuary and OSMC skin.
Why do I think it has something to do with the shares. Well my shares are on a Win10 -system and I had to start logging into windows with a windows account to be able to enroll in the 1y free security updates. This broke the sharing initially (back on my Vero 4k+) but I changed it back to password-login etc and everything worked fine again, but I still feel there might be something here that is out of my control, and the freeze does not happen when browsing already scraped files.
I dont know why it keeps log from yesterday but what I wanna show is from today, and there were many smaller freezes and then one long one right before uploading the logs.
Suggest to assign a static IP to your “MEDIA-PC” and then use the IP address to configure your library.
Using Windows Names without proper DNS setup is unreliable.
You can just use Path Substitution (see below) so just on configuration will make it in all places
If you would like to use a MySQL database for several Kodi clients that use different methods to access the shared media (e.g. a mix of SMB, NFS and/or system mount based access), or have need of modifying a path of an existing source (such as converting from a Kodi path to a system mount) you can use the path substitution function of Kodi to facilitate this. The following guide will provide instruction on how this works, including a section specific to MySQL usage and how your sources should be configured.
Thanks, but a little bit of a problem here. I set it up and tried it through some of the files in the .kodi/userdata, and it says in the guide that you should not have both the new path AND the substitution, and I kinda forgot where I did this, so is there any way of clearing all sources and add them again?
Ok so what I did was just to go through all the files in my userdata and change them back to hostname and then use the substitution. It looks like it works and no errors on hostname in the logs.