[XBL.]

it's a docker and there's no need to uninstall libtag first because it was never there to start with

I've never used dockers. They work completely in a sandbox/isolation?

[Solo0815]

I think, this is worth thinking about in a headless server:
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=220147

Don't know, if it is in actual development

[wrxtasy]

And for £10 Headless Hardware solution this is likely suitable:

Headless Ghost:

https://www.headlessghost.com/

[illiac4]

Another option is to use fake edid.bin to emulate hdmi.

[jeffjoker]

I will try and install one on my server too.

I am really interested in having a stripped down instance of Kodi (headless of course, meaning no graphical server nor libs) on my server.
It already hosts my files and my shared kodi db.
Some ports are already in use : 80, 443, 8080, 8081, 9091

I do not want to have a constant other device running Kodi of library update (scheduled and/or from sickbeard / couchpotato)
And I want to prevent duplicate entries that can happen if I start 2 kodi devices with library update ON
I have had the case recently and a library clean did not remove the duplicate entries

[colek42]

Thought this thread might be interested. I have a GSOC proposal to implement a backend for Retroplayer. If everything goes well it would be a good start to separating kodi into a front and back end. Each Kodi instance on the network would act as a node using a single database for all persistent data. Feel free to take a look. http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=222191

My ultimate goal is for a user to be able to plug a fresh install of Kodi onto the network and have that machine look exactly like all of the other Kodi nodes with no user interaction needed.

Any device that can run python will be able to run an instance of the backend.

Feel free to leave a comment in the GSOC thread if you have any input.

[vajonam]

@topfs2, will you merging in the 14.2 changes into you helix-headless branch?

git pull http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc Helix

seemed to merge cleanly into your branch, running a 14.2 headless now. Thanks!

[topfs2]

@topfs2, will you merging in the 14.2 changes into you helix-headless branch?

git pull http://github.com/xbmc/xbmc Helix

seemed to merge cleanly into your branch, running a 14.2 headless now. Thanks!

Nice to hear, I haven't had much time to work on it lately. I have one PR which I wanted to get into master but its waiting on love from windows so I haven't' really pushed forward much (as the rest is kindof based on it somewhat).

[eg4190]

So I installed kodi-headless using Docker on my Unraid 6 server and it works great. Media comes in via Couch, SickRage and Headphones, and each of these apps sends a notification to Kodi-Headless to update the MariaDB library on download completion. My two frontends seamlessly update within a minute or two of each download finishing, and I never have to wait for library updates or clean-library to finish while I'm trying to watch TV. I never realized how huge a feature this would be, so thanks to all the people who made this possible.

I'm not sure if this is a question for the devs on this thread, but I've noticed that the Docker image I'm using only includes scrapers for TV shows, movies, and music albums. The music artist scraper isn't included, which means I have to manually update the library using one of my frontends to get artist info. Since this version of Kodi is headless, I can't install the artist scraper through the normal UI. Do I just need to worry about copying the contents of the music artist scraper into the addons directory, or is there more setup involved? I'm hesitant to just copy the folder in because I don't want to mess up my install.

[jeffjoker]

I'm like XBL, I never used Docker
Could someone write a quick how to install kodi-headless using a docker ?
(on a standard linux, not dedicated ubuntu) I use debian even tho mostly compatible with ubuntu
I'm trying to keep a very small install and the sources + the building librairies are too big for my install

Also, is there a way to tell kodi-headless to do a clean library after each update ?
I need this because my couchpotato tries 720p before 1080p and because I sometime manually replace a movie by another version of the same movie with a different filename.

[Robotica]

When headless, cleaning and updating the libraries should ideally be done, but aren't, by webinterface and/or JSON-api. The scraper settings should be decoupled from databases and all could be set via XML.
Probably best way is to openmediavault's docker with patched watchdog. The old way, library scanner, isn't patched to Kodi 14. Maybe someone can share some builds for Windows, Linux and ARM to bring in more testers.

Is there some feedback on sharing via UPNP?

[Solo0815]

If anyone has a docker container to try with OMV/Debian Wheezy, please post a link

The LibraryScanner isn't fully working with the docker container following this tutorial:
http://forums.openmediavault.org/index.p...#post72749
This is because Multi-sources. This should be fixed with Kodi 14.2. That's why I asked for a 14.2 docker container
Thx

[Vaseer]

Does KODI-headless, in unRAID 6 docker, work with multiple MySQL tables? I have 1 MySQL database, with 6 tables for 6 users. Will KODI-headless update all 6 tables?
I was trying to set it up, but with no luck so far.

[marantz]

anyone got this to work on master? Gotten addicted to this by now..

[Odon]

Yup, rebased and built under Freenas past weekend.

You just need to remove boost dependency within xbmc/interfaces/json-rpc/FileOperations.cpp (replace boost by std)