(2015-08-12, 18:50)candyman2000 Wrote: Hi

I recently installed Sparklyballs Docker Helix Headless: https://hub.docker.com/r/sparklyballs/headless-kodi-helix/ on my Synology NAS.

The container is created and I can connect ok to the web server on (mapped) port 8080.

However I don't seem to be able to see any of my content via the web server, should this be the case?

I've copied my standard sources.xml to the container userdata folder but this doesn't seem to have done anything.

Can someone confirm if I should be able to browse my media from the web browser as per normal. If so, then is there anything special that needs to be done to define sources in the headless build?

Thanks

(2015-09-20, 12:37)vajonam Wrote: @topfs_2 how come this still hasn't made it into the mainline. I think we have futzing around w/ this since 12.x

(2015-09-21, 11:27)topfs2 Wrote:

(2015-09-20, 12:37)vajonam Wrote: @topfs_2 how come this still hasn't made it into the mainline. I think we have futzing around w/ this since 12.x

Because I have closed all my PRs and have no energy to pursuing it? The patches are highly unlikely to be accepted as is and the patches I tried to split out in good chunks didn't get the platform support they needed. Basically much of the needed patches will be in the dangerous area of changing a lot and in high risk of lots of politics, bikeshedding and so on, which is fine because its high risk - high reward stuff but I don't find it fun.

EDIT: I would also like to add that I do not own a NAS so I have very little personal use for it, I mostly tried to make it headless as I think Kodi _should_ be able to run headless. Which adds to my inability to muster the PR process on this

If anyone wants to take it over they are free to do so, all the code still sits in my fork.

(2015-09-24, 02:21)natethomas Wrote:

(2015-09-21, 11:27)topfs2 Wrote:

(2015-09-20, 12:37)vajonam Wrote: @topfs_2 how come this still hasn't made it into the mainline. I think we have futzing around w/ this since 12.x

Because I have closed all my PRs and have no energy to pursuing it? The patches are highly unlikely to be accepted as is and the patches I tried to split out in good chunks didn't get the platform support they needed. Basically much of the needed patches will be in the dangerous area of changing a lot and in high risk of lots of politics, bikeshedding and so on, which is fine because its high risk - high reward stuff but I don't find it fun.

EDIT: I would also like to add that I do not own a NAS so I have very little personal use for it, I mostly tried to make it headless as I think Kodi _should_ be able to run headless. Which adds to my inability to muster the PR process on this

If anyone wants to take it over they are free to do so, all the code still sits in my fork.

As a follow up to this, getting stuff PRed into Kodi, when it touches all sorts of things, is pretty difficult and really only gets the attention it deserves when either a lot of people are pushing for it, or the numerous devs necessary across platforms get together behind it. (The downside of an all volunteer dev team, I suppose.) My guess is that this will become far easier to push in once montellese's Media Importing project is done and in. At that point, more devs and users will see the value of having a headless kodi server sitting somewhere acting as the main source for imported media, and will push to make it happen.

That's just a guess though.

(2015-09-24, 02:57)rap777 Wrote: I would like to help "pushing". I have a Freenas Server and I am running emby.....almost perfect but the idea of having a native kodi on the server sounds appealing

(2015-09-24, 02:21)natethomas Wrote: As a follow up to this, getting stuff PRed into Kodi, when it touches all sorts of things, is pretty difficult and really only gets the attention it deserves when either a lot of people are pushing for it, or the numerous devs necessary across platforms get together behind it. (The downside of an all volunteer dev team, I suppose.) My guess is that this will become far easier to push in once montellese's Media Importing project is done and in. At that point, more devs and users will see the value of having a headless kodi server sitting somewhere acting as the main source for imported media, and will push to make it happen.

That's just a guess though.

(2015-09-24, 09:50)topfs2 Wrote:

(2015-09-24, 02:57)rap777 Wrote: I would like to help "pushing". I have a Freenas Server and I am running emby.....almost perfect but the idea of having a native kodi on the server sounds appealing

Thanks, what nate was talking about is mostly dev push though I think this thread in general shows its a wanted feature.

(2015-09-24, 02:21)natethomas Wrote: As a follow up to this, getting stuff PRed into Kodi, when it touches all sorts of things, is pretty difficult and really only gets the attention it deserves when either a lot of people are pushing for it, or the numerous devs necessary across platforms get together behind it. (The downside of an all volunteer dev team, I suppose.) My guess is that this will become far easier to push in once montellese's Media Importing project is done and in. At that point, more devs and users will see the value of having a headless kodi server sitting somewhere acting as the main source for imported media, and will push to make it happen.

That's just a guess though.

Honestly I think thats the problem. Headless touches so much underlying code, which is not sexy in any way. So unless people actually wants headless (and devs on all platforms) it won't get done

Linux and OS X are very similar, but there is noone for windows which is interested. But perhaps it will get an upswing when Sascha gets his media importing in. But sadly that PR kindof has the same problem, it touches a crapload and very few will help out with it I suspect.

(2015-10-19, 18:16)FernetMenta Wrote: FYI:
I started to separate the render thread which is also a major step towards headless: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=240870

(2015-10-21, 19:41)pgjensen Wrote: For 15.2 Final:

Code:

git clone https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc.git -b Isengard --depth=1
cd xbmc
git reset --hard 02e7013
wget https://goo.gl/oVsvol -O Isengard15Final.patch
git apply --check Isengard15Final.patch
git apply Isengard15Final.patch
./bootstrap
./configure --prefix=/opt/kodi-server-15_2
make -j2
make install