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milaq / kodi-headless

A headless, dockerized Kodi instance for a shared MySQL database
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Library Update #9

Closed raupie closed 5 years ago

raupie commented 5 years ago

I can see that the UpdateLibrary function is working as my new movies are being added to the Kodi MySQL Database. However, my new show episodes are not being found.

Any ideas?

raupie commented 5 years ago

I bet it has something to do with the TV Show scraper.

By default I think for TV Shows it wants to use the themoviedb but I chose the thetvdb instead on my kodi player devices.

hmmmm.

raupie commented 5 years ago

The biggest hurdle for the Rancher/Portainer implementation of this build is the custom scraper. I need to be able to copy the Addons27.db and metadata.tvdb.com to the container but when I do I get permissions issues with Addons27.db and the entire addons folder get's wiped out except for my new downloaded scrapper.

I believe it has something to do with the original docker file creating a volume mount or something. I thought this would be easy to extend this build to include these custom files but it has been a challenge.

Current strategy is cloning this repo and injecting these files into the original Dockerfile like the advancedsettings.xml file is handled.

REMINDER: If you are not using TMDB/TVDB scrapers you need to take care of installing and enabling the respective plugins in the container yourself.

raupie commented 5 years ago

Finally got kodi-headless to work in RancherOS. I'm not very proud of my solution but it works.

I created a data folder and moved Addons27.db, addons/metadata.tvdb.com, kodi_init, sources.xml into it.

Dockerfile excerpt: 

COPY ./data/sources.xml /config/userdata/sources.xml
COPY ./data/ /tmp/data/
RUN chown -R kodi:kodi /tmp/data 
COPY ./data/kodi_init /sbin/kodi_init

kodi_init excerpt:

mkdir /config/userdata/Database
cp /tmp/data/Addons27.db /config/userdata/Database/Addons27.db
chown -R kodi:kodi /config/userdata/Database

mkdir /config/addons
cp -R /tmp/data/addons/metadata.tvdb.com /config/addons/metadata.tvdb.com
chown -R kodi:kodi /config/addons

As I said I find this to be really "hacky". I wish I could have just COPY via the Dockerfile all this stuff and done a RUN chown command to set the permissions right but something was blocking me from getting that to work. Having to clone the kodi_init and add my custom commands in there seems hard to maintain or future proof but it works.