2024-12-11, 06:50 AM
(This post was last modified: 2024-12-11, 07:17 AM by KodiUser1138. Edited 2 times in total.)
Finally had the chance to look into this matter again and I am fully confused. I removed all of JF from Kodi and re-installed the add-on. Deleted all userdata and started Kodi. So I enter my server address and select Native and now I don't know what path I am supposed to enter. The full network path to each drive that contains media from my server? The root paths JF sees to populate my media libraries? I am just sort of lost.
I enter a full network location of a drive, Kodi doesn't "scan" anything. I go to movies and a list of all drives that JF sees are there, I select the drive I entered the network path for and can see all the movies. Kodi still doesn't "scan" anything. There are no movies in my actual library, just clicks to paths to find files on sharedn network drives. Either I am doing something very wrong or this changed method fundementally alters the manner in which JF and Kodi work together using local paths that I don't follow.
Using local allows me to contiue to use the basic, simple and easy long dead VideoExtras add-on in Kodi rather than the conveluted junk Kodi mainstream has been unable to build in for a decade. I accept losing this on a remote connection but on all my local clients I shouldn't have to. So I would like to usnderstand what has changed and how, if possible, to get things working nice and simple as they used to again.
Trying to follow along in the Git and whoa what a complete mess this sounds like. No idea what makes this better than previous, just selecting Native mode and then adding the libraries and Kodi/JF do the rest. Now it's back to manually entering EVERYTHIGN on EVERY client bx, once you fugioure out how to actually do that, and should something change down the road having toe re-enter that change on EVERY client yet again. And still no clue how to actually get this to work, when it was working, for me, before.
If I use add-on mode how to I get Kodi to see the local path "Extras" folders, which are basic dump folders, and push that to the end user so I can not bother with all the above? It was all working (for me), why was it "fixed"?
I enter a full network location of a drive, Kodi doesn't "scan" anything. I go to movies and a list of all drives that JF sees are there, I select the drive I entered the network path for and can see all the movies. Kodi still doesn't "scan" anything. There are no movies in my actual library, just clicks to paths to find files on sharedn network drives. Either I am doing something very wrong or this changed method fundementally alters the manner in which JF and Kodi work together using local paths that I don't follow.
Using local allows me to contiue to use the basic, simple and easy long dead VideoExtras add-on in Kodi rather than the conveluted junk Kodi mainstream has been unable to build in for a decade. I accept losing this on a remote connection but on all my local clients I shouldn't have to. So I would like to usnderstand what has changed and how, if possible, to get things working nice and simple as they used to again.
Trying to follow along in the Git and whoa what a complete mess this sounds like. No idea what makes this better than previous, just selecting Native mode and then adding the libraries and Kodi/JF do the rest. Now it's back to manually entering EVERYTHIGN on EVERY client bx, once you fugioure out how to actually do that, and should something change down the road having toe re-enter that change on EVERY client yet again. And still no clue how to actually get this to work, when it was working, for me, before.
If I use add-on mode how to I get Kodi to see the local path "Extras" folders, which are basic dump folders, and push that to the end user so I can not bother with all the above? It was all working (for me), why was it "fixed"?
JF Wish List:
IMDb Top250 metadata
Collection content rules: Library-Title/Sorttitle/Tag/Director/Filename/Contains
Collection organized by Library
Collections scanned to editable XML
Media info show added Collection
Soundtrack auto link to movie by title/sort/Manual
Read Music Album Sort
IMDb Top250 metadata
Collection content rules: Library-Title/Sorttitle/Tag/Director/Filename/Contains
Collection organized by Library
Collections scanned to editable XML
Media info show added Collection
Soundtrack auto link to movie by title/sort/Manual
Read Music Album Sort