Hi,

which folders does the playon read/check when I click on Movies/Music in the main menu?

Is it possible to bind a mounted network share to them, so that my Movies, Music,.. are even quicker accessable?

Thanks for any help!

Hi
When you select movies or music from the main menu, the Playon is then looking into it's database, which it builds when you turn on the scan function to scan local hard drives.
I notice you are using the mini 2, which has no internal drive, but if you plug a USB memory stick or USB disk (using it's own power, not powered via the USB port) into one of the USB ports, it is possible to create folders on the drive, and mount network shares onto them - I do this with shares on my NAS boxes.
The scan function will then use scan your NAS shares as it sees them as an extension to the local file system, and content will show up in Movies and Music
You will need to be able to use telnet to connect to the mini, have a basic knowledge of linux to do it, as you will need to edit the player's startup script so it mounts your NAS shares on boot
If you want to give it a go I'll happily provide details of how I do it
Andy

Hi,

Thanks for the answer! I would like to try it. The basic knowledge of linux should be available

So far I mounted the network shares on my mini2. This works fine. (I'll make a automount on startup if the rest works).

Could you tell me where to link the mounted folders? I assume somewhere in /mnt/.

Hi

Here's how to do it
- On your USB drive or memory stick create some new folders - Movies, Music and Pictures
- as long as you only have one USB device it's first volume will be sda1 in AC Ryan linux
- the startup script is /usr/local/etc/rcS, edit with vi and add these four lines at the end

sleep 30
mount -t cifs //192.168.1.68/Movies /mnt/usbmounts/sda1/Movies -o ro,username=guest
mount -t cifs //192.168.1.73/Pictures /mnt/usbmounts/sda1/Pictures -o ro,username=guest
mount -t cifs //192.168.1.73/Music /mnt/usbmounts/sda1/Music -o ro,username=guest

Using the above, the shares on my NAS boxes automount at startup. You need to change the IP Addresses to match the IP address of whatever you are using to shre out files
Shares are mounted as read only ( using the -o ro on each line) and you also need a username of gurest with a blank password, or no username / password required at all.

The scan function will now work with all of the mountes shares

Hope this works for you, let me know

Andy

I tried this befor. The mount does work, but the box won't index anything. Is it necessary that there are all 3 folders on the usb drive?

I read somewhere that ones the shares are mounted and bind to the usb drives folders the mini2 will start indexing, but where does it writes the index file to?


EDIT: Ok, I'm sorry. I had autoscanning disabled. Now it works!

Thank you again

Glad it's working for you
Topic closed
Andy