I have 2 properties… My home and holiday house. With Kodi installed at each, all served of a central database at the home.
I use Ubiquiti network and the feature for Site VPN. So home is a 192.168.1.x network and the holiday house is at 192.168.2.x It works well I can access any device at each location.
Kodi works well for me to – I can be watching a show at home. Stop it halfway. Travel to the holiday house, and resume where I left off…. Love it.
The databse is located at home, along with the server containin all the files. At home I can download / move files as I like… Go into Kodi and do an update – a few minutes later the UI shows all the new shows… Everything works.
However if I am away at the holiday house – I can remotely log into my file server, download files, move files whatever I like – just as I would do normally if I was at home. However I cannot update the database.
If I try from the remote location – the databse is too big / too slow / it times out… What I would like to do is to remote log in to a machine running Kodi, and just do the databse update manually myself.
I learned through here – remote access does not work well – and I knwo that, as my first attempts to do this – Kodi would not run. Subsequently found the hint of turning off local sound and having sound come from the local PC. Yes I can now remote access and run Kodi, but the update still does not work.
It startes – says its preparing to do the update – sits at 0% then the message in the top right screen dsiappears and the update stops.
I have the debug file on an attempt – but have no idea of what I am looking for.
Both machines are Windows 11 running latest Kodi 21.0 (Remote machine is headless – but have also tried a normal machine as well – both exhibit the same issue
THe library is huge, and from the remote machine I cannot access the Video library through Videos menu… (If I could write a playlist that used files and not the series library I could probably just write something to show the last 200 added items without a problem maybe).
I have tried Microsoft Remote Desktop (preferrred)
I have tried VNC (but it will not run… cant configure it properly… since they got rid of free accounts I have had issues)
I have tried a Rustdesk – same issue
Thinking it may not be the remote access software but some kind of config issue ?
Any ideas of what I can try as remote access tool or another way I can update the database
Debug File -> qamisanaje.kodi (paste)