Posts by uk_martin

Thanks for that great reply chewitt. Ahh, XML, a bit closer to what I'm used to, but I'm still no expert.

Just to check then, to make sure that my file structure fits what's needed, am I right in thinking that the following XML will link to the main sources of what I've got stored?

<sources>
    <video>
        <default pathversion="1"></default>
        <source>
            <name>TV</name>
            <path pathversion="1">smb://username:password@DISKSTATION/Video/</path>
            <allowsharing>true</allowsharing>
        </source>
        <source>
            <name>Concerts</name>
            <path pathversion="1">smb://username:password@DISKSTATION/Video/Concerts/</path>
            <allowsharing>true</allowsharing>
        </source>
        <source>
            <name>Movies</name>
            <path pathversion="1">smb://username:password@DISKSTATION/Video/My%20Films/</path>
            <allowsharing>true</allowsharing>
        </source>
    </video>
</sources>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<sources>
    <music>
        <default pathversion="1"></default>
        <source>
            <name>Music</name>
            <path pathversion="1">smb://username:password@DISKSTATION/music/</path>
            <allowsharing>true</allowsharing>
        </source>
    </music>
</sources>

For info, the paths to my files are:

DISKSTATION/music (then usually /artist/album/song.mp3 but also /compilations/year/album/song.mp3)

DISKSTATION/Videos (then either /Title/Season/episode.mp4 OR (as an example) /Star Trek/Discovery/Season/Epiosode.mp4) for my TV Series

DISKSTATION/Videos/Concerts/title.mp4

DISKSTATION/Videos/My Films (then either /title.mp4 OR (as an example) /Star Wars/title.mp4) for my Movies

Am I right in thinking that XML needs %20 to represent a space in the directory name? (the "My Films" case in point)

So would I need to specify every single path or will the system pick up on what's there when it scans? I say that as the Synology Video Station does successfully scan what I have so I'm hoping that Kodi will be just as clever.

I have a Synology Disk Station DS420+ NAS

I'm not much good with script syntax. I can do "monkey see, monkey do" so if you can be kind enough to advise what to type in where, that would be much appreciated. I know when you are an expert on stuff like this it's easy to think that everyone speaks the same language to the same standard, but this is not only a new language to me, it's a whole different country too. So please go easy on me

Hi

I'm using a Raspberry Pi 3 LibreELEC / Kodi image for the first time and I am trying to connect the folders on my NAS up to it.

On my home network, I have an AZBox which is a Linux powered satellite TV decoder and PVR. It has a couple of recordings made directly off the satellite. I also have 2 NAS's that contain the bulk of my music and TV recordings.

In trying to search for sources on the network, the AZBox showed up and "Workgroup" from the NAS's also showed up. When trying to access "Workgroup" I got an error message with the word "success" as the error (!?!)

When doing a scan, the 5 or 5 videos on the AZBox were found, but nothing from the NAS's. I even tried to manually input the location of the folders (e.g. 192.168.0.2/music)

I'm not sure what's going wrong. I was hoping to get to the Root and to edit the FSTAB file to connect the NAS's shared folders natively to the OS's file structure, but I'm not sure how that's done in this image.

If anyone can offer any help then I'd be very grateful.

Thanks in advance,

Martin