Hi all
I’ve been using Kodi / XBMC for many years now, but have only recently created a proper setup, and share experience. My setup and integration below. Comments and suggestions welcomed (as I’m still figuring the best setup, and how I can tweak what I have).
I’m running the latest stable builds (16.1) on various system.
I have an office / theatre room (apart from the house) setup running Win 10, with Kodi, connected to a large HD screen as the primary screen (or the only one when viewing) and a Creative THX speaker setup (small speakers, as it’s not the biggest of rooms). CPU is an i5, 16GB RAM, Nvidia 750TI 2GB GPU (connected via DVI) and X-Fi Elite Pro soundcard connected via fibre from the external breakout box to the external amp.
Bedroom, I have a Raspberry Pi 3 running Openelec, connected to a 32′ FHD screen.
The Pi SD card is only a 4GB one. I use the larger 32GB for another OS. I have some external Bose speakers that I might use instead of the TV sound provided via HDMI, but so far this has been okay.
Android tablet with Kodi (the tablet has HDMI out if ever there is a desire to use a larger screen).
Lubuntu laptop also running Kodi (but this is rather old hardware)
Android phone, with Kore which can control any of the installations.
Ubuntu office server running MySQL, with a server grade drive for system and others for media storage, provided via NFS. This machine is headless, administered via SSH or Webmin. i3, 2GB RAM, on-board Intel graphics.
All devices connected to a gigabit switch. Most run GB, with the Pi and old laptop running 100 and the phone and tablet running via N wireless (there is a router / NAS also attached to the switch for ADSL and 4G failover).
Planned:
Playlists are currently all synced via SQL, and in the process of checking the thumbnail caches on each device to see if / when I’d need to centralise this.
Also looking to use dedicated media drives in the server, as while it doesn’t receive too much simultaneous traffic, there are a few virtual machines that sometimes run on there, a web server for development, and shared storage for video editing projects.
Investigate if I can use the EDL feature, and export files directly out of my NLE (video editor) to allow quick previews of possible end products, without having to render them out.
Comments, suggestions on tweaking or updates are welcome 