storagehound Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 TVAddons. But that makes sense if you are interested in the other features it offers (which I am). Check their site. Otherwise I'd stick with the way you are doing it now. Understood, CHBMB I usually use a Kodi addon to easily manipulate the advancedsettings.ini for my boxes. Keeping a copy as you suggest is smart. There's an addon? Mind telling us what it is? I just use Notepad++ Quote Link to comment
pcgirl Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 I am trying to get this setup on my Kodi using the emby kodi plugin but for some reason it won't play anything when I am in kodi. I can see the tv shows and movies but when I click on them nothing happens. I have my EmbyServer Docker container volumes setup like this: /config=/mnt/cache/appdata/config_files/EmbyServer/ /TV=/mnt/user/TV Shows /Movies=/mnt/user/Movies Then in my Embyserver Library settings I have my TV Shows set to /TV and my Movies set to /Movies. I can play anything while in the webgui but not in Kodi. Can someone help me out. This is driving me crazy! Here is a log from kodi. http://pastebin.com/BvD8BGHc Quote Link to comment
galways Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 In the server library do you have path substitution set? In my case its: From To /mnt/user/Movies smb://Tower/Movies /mnt/user/TV smb://Tower/TV Quote Link to comment
pcgirl Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 No, I didn't set that up. I didn't think that I needed to set it up because we set the container paths in the docker setup. Quote Link to comment
galways Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 I believe its required for the client Kodi to access the file. Quote Link to comment
pcgirl Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 OK, I did this but now kodi isn't seeing any TV or Movies. Did an update of the library in the emby plugin and on the server. Still nothing. Quote Link to comment
pcgirl Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 Do you set both path substitution and the Folders in EmbyServer? I have both set. Folders are set as per previous post and path substitution is set to /mnt/user/Movies to smb://Tower/Movies Quote Link to comment
galways Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 Yes in my emby server both folder and path substitution are setup. Try changing Tower to TOWER in substitution as all caps shows in your logs. Not sure if that makes a difference. Quote Link to comment
pcgirl Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 How have you got the settings in Unraid docker? Quote Link to comment
galways Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 In the docker under Volume Mapping I have: /config=/mnt/user/appdata/emby /mnt=/mnt In folders in the Emby server I have: Movies=/mnt/user/Movies TV=/mnt/user/TV Music=/mnt/user/Audio Path Substitution is: /mnt/user/Movies smb://Tower/Movies /mnt/user/TV smb://Tower/TV /mnt/user/Audio smb://Tower/Audio Quote Link to comment
pcgirl Posted October 2, 2015 Share Posted October 2, 2015 OMG! I think I finally got it working. This is how I had to set it up. Emby Docker container /mnt=/mnt EmbyServer Folders /mnt/user/Movies and /mnt/user/TV Shows EmbyServer Path Substitution /mnt/user/Movies to smb://192.168.1.100/Movies and /mnt/user/TV Shows to smb://192.168.1.100/TV Shows This might seem obvious to many but it took me a long time to get this right. Thanks for everyones help! Now does anybody know if this will work with my XBMC 13.2 on openelec? When i first tried to install the emby plugin it is giving me an error when trying to use it. Quote Link to comment
ALNiKO Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 With this plugin, will I be able to start watching in the living room and then continue where I left off in my bedroom? I'm using 2 MINIX media players with KODI installed on them. Quote Link to comment
hernandito Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 The way I understand this... there are 2 ways of centralizing Kodi... One is the original mySQL/MariaDB route with the advancedsettings.xml file. This method is clearly documented in Kodi wiki. The second method is to do an Emby docker, and on each htpc, you install the Emby Kodi Plugin. This method is described on the Emby web site and on a couple videos. I have always used the Kodi/MySQL method. I made the mistake of installing the Emby plugin alon top of the ld method.... I dont think I broke anything, but I quickly deleted the Emby plugin and kept things as they were. Am I correct that these two methods are NOT meant to be used side by side? I gather that the one advantage of the Emby method is that you have control of the metadata and hand picking artwork and all. Quote Link to comment
EdgarWallace Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Yes you can only use only one of the two options you mentiones. If you want to try Emby you need to delete advancedsettings.xml. I was using the MySQL method for a long time but moved recently over to Emby & Kodi. Another advantage is that you can run different versions of Kodi. Quote Link to comment
pcgirl Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 I have used both and I am impressed with Emby now. Makes it super easy to have different profiles and keep track of what is watched in each profile. Quote Link to comment
dalben Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 I jumped into Emby on the back of this thread and enjoyed the experience immensely....until I found my Emby cache folder was filling up my cache drive. I'm clearing out ~45Gb everyday. Has anyone else seen this ? I had been running Emby for a couple of weeks with no issue then bang. I tried playing with settings but to no avail. All my connections are via Kodi so I'm stumped. If anyone knows if this is a Emby docker issue or something else I'd be well grateful. Quote Link to comment
pcgirl Posted October 30, 2015 Share Posted October 30, 2015 I haven't had that issue. Do you have the "Save artwork and metadata into media folders" checked off under the Metadata settings in Emby? If not, then it could be that it is saving all the artwork and metadata into the cache folder. Quote Link to comment
dalben Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 Maybe it's unraid related. Here is the snapshot of the cache directory properties. Seems odd to be 202MB in size but taking up 30.3GB on disk. Anyone seen this before ? Snapshot attached Quote Link to comment
reggierat Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 I've made the switch to emby as well from MySQL and im really enjoy the extra features Emby brings. My only complaint is my RPi in the bedroom which we use to stream music is sooo much slower now, about 20secs to start playback on average. Quote Link to comment
Spyderturbo007 Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 For those of us that currently don't have a centralized database, how do you go about importing a current library to the new database? I only have one HTPC right now, but will be adding another shortly. I was hoping to keep all the watched / unwatched flags, but don't know how to do this if I were to set up Emby....once I find the How To for Idiots. Quote Link to comment
CHBMB Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 I'd install trakt on Kodi, sync my watched statuses then install Emby and install trakt and do it that way.. Quote Link to comment
schford Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 For those of us that currently don't have a centralized database, how do you go about importing a current library to the new database? I only have one HTPC right now, but will be adding another shortly. I was hoping to keep all the watched / unwatched flags, but don't know how to do this if I were to set up Emby....once I find the How To for Idiots. The unwatched flags get written to the nfo files which shoudl be in the same fodlers as movies - kodi reads those nfo files and inf act writes to them. So it will know what is watched or not. Quote Link to comment
Vaseer Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 I have question about accessing files via Kodi using Emby Server. I have set up Emby Server and already have Kodi in use (until now, I have used KODI-Headless and MariaDB). Since I already have set up Kodi to connect to unRAID via NFS, do I also need set up access via Emby Server - Path Substitution? Quote Link to comment
pcgirl Posted December 1, 2015 Share Posted December 1, 2015 You should only setup Emby Server paths/path substitution and then when you install the emby plugin in kodi, it will connect that way. Otherwise, you aren't really using Emby. Quote Link to comment
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