HT Movie Database without active source

Looking for support from Zidoo HT users to bring this option into Home Theater. If we get enough support and responses we may be able to get some attention to this problem.

Currently if any of your sources are down or disconnected all movies related to those drives would be missing from HT poster wall. We should have an option in the source selection (where you defined path) a check mark to keep the database alive if the source is disconnected. If selected for all your sources it should keep the poster wall always populated from the last scan. Any active source would be dynamically updated as HT scans it in the background and if the source is down it should keep the posters from the last time. Very similar to Kodi. If no check marks were selected the Home Theater database would work the old way: no drive - no movies. Currently it needs to wake up all your drives to validate the files before showing any posters at all.

My case, I have a couple of drives full of 3D movies. This small NAS is powered down most of the time. I know I have those movies and I don't need to check up on them daily or every time my PC File Explorer refreshes mapped drives. I'm trying to save those drives and energy. Right now I can't see those movies in HT unless I boot up this NAS.

This should also apply to any Zidoo local USB drives or anything else that can be disconnected but you would like to see it in your catalogue of movies.

Similar thread here. Unless this thread and poll is pinned it will get buried in few days

 

3DBuff, IIRC elsewhere you mentioned hoping for a behavior like when a disconnected title is clicked on, getting a prompt to connect it. That sounds like an attractive implementation.

 

I was about to create a new thread for such feature.. on ATV, this is perfectly handled by Infusexx.
List of movies stays up to date and when trying to watch a movie from a down server, it automatically trigger a WoL and wait for the server/nas to be up.
This is a so obvious behavior.
@zidoo any technical reason not to implement it?
At the cost of energy today.. it would be a welcome feature

 

It's on its way

 

OMG.. you made my day

 

Great news! Any ETA?

 

No - I only asked this morning...

 

Hi Mark,
Do you also to have the support of WoL when a server is down and wait for the server/nas to be up (with timeout of course)?
Thanks

 

One thing at a time... a bit more thought would need to be put into whether and if so, how, to implement WOL in this scenario.

 

Agreed, you probably need a lot more time to check if the device woke up. WOL can also boot the device from power off not only from sleep mode. This would need to be an option per source if you want it or not. Don't need to hang up the whole system waiting for the drive to wake up that is unplugged.

 

Just show the movies on disconnected source for now, step one

 

Agreed.

 

Agree too.. but at least we know what has been asked

 

Another gripe with Home Theater web edit page http://192.168.1.xxx:9528/pc/ On just about every browser I've tried its no longer possible to get to the actual edit page for TV shows. Above 'reviews', top right there is a very large untypical number, when you click on the symbol to edit details you get a spinning wheel forever.

Movies on the other hand are OK. It's really frustrating that it is so hard to edit details on the Zidoo. In a couple of instances I've edited the home details directly in TVDB (I've been a member for yonks) as a work around.

It really would be good if you could directly edit text within the Zidoo

 

Any news on this one?

 

Me ? No. Maybe @Markswift2003 may have? From what I deduce, Zidoo are not all that proactive or communicative.

 

Nope - nothing since - just asked again..

 

Hello Mark,

maybe I missed something, but I did not see progress on this topic.

do you have news on your side?

thanks

 

Nada, sorry.

 

@mirror and Zidoo team.

We are patiently waiting for movement in this direction. This is such a basic function. We need a check mark by the source selection to keep database alive when the source is disconnected. Those posters should stay in HT until manually refreshed or deleted not because the source is temporary down.

All media programs do it even Jellyfin. I can start Jellyfin server without any drives connected and as long as I don't select refresh it will show full database of media. If I want to play a movie from disconnected drive of course I have to connect, power up, wake up, map or whatever but I still see full database of my collection all the time, ready or not.