*Official* MyMovies For Dune Thread - Page 3

Originally Posted by Killroy

OK... I have to admit that the new MyMovies app for the iPad is pretty freaking cool for one feature alone... MCE play button. You connect to your HTPC, via WiFi, and when you select a movie in the app you can hit the play button and it will launch the movie in your HTPC.

I cannot wait for the IP control to come to the Dune firmware so this feature can be enabled to work with Dunes.

Originally Posted by meoge

I posted this on the My Movies forum, but thought I'd try it here also. I'm running My Movies 3.18

I'll start off by saying that I have a Dune HD Smart B1 on order, but it hasn't arrived yet. I've got a collection of about 480 DVD ISO images and having been using my movies to play them in Windows Media Center. My setup is a database server running in my basement with the server/client version of My Movies for Media Center and a workstation upstairs that has just the client version on it. I rip all my movies from the workstation upstairs to a UnRAID server in the basement. In preparation of my Dune arriving I checked the box for the Dune metadata and pointed the dune index to a file share on my database server downstairs and the movies location to my UnRaid server also downstairs. I clicked the update button and it created the index. Since I don't have my Dune yet I just looked at the share to verify that it had actually created the index. It had and when I later added a couple more DVD ISO's it automatically updated the index with those movies. Last night I decided to add my first Bluray ISO. It was "The Dark Knight". I already had that as a DVD ISO so I first deleted that title and all the files associated with it and then copied the Bluray and added it to Collection Management. I also added the bonus disc. After adding it I looked at the dune index share and noticed that there was no folder under all titles called "The Dark Knight". I tried making a minor change to the title like making it offline and then online to see if that would trigger it to be added, but no luck. I clicked the update button and let it update the entire index again, but it still didn't add the title. I did all this from my workstation upstairs so I logged into my database server downstairs and opened collection management on it. I had to setup the dune metadat settings and then I deleted my current dune index manually and clicked update from that machine. When I checked this morning it had completed, but the title still wasn't present in the index. I verified that it was showing up in Windows Media Center and it was with the correct media info indicating that it was a Bluray ISO.

Am I missing something? Are Bluray's stored in some other index or location on the dune? Is this just a matter of me not having the dune yet and when I get it I'll see the Bluray on it's interface somehow? I removed another DVD ISO this morning just to see if the automatic updating was working and the title was removed from the dune index immediately.

Originally Posted by flyr1

Hello Damian,
I am not sure exactly. I think you are asking if I have added a hard drive or a thumb drive. When I posted my problem the answer was no. I thought the way I had the index being built in the videos folder on WHS would allow this thing to work without a hard drive or thumb drive on the Dune.

Since my original post, I have been playing with the configuration and I thought I would try something. I put a 8GB card in the SD slot on the front of the Dune. It showed up on the Dune home page as "Memory Card". I clicked info on the Memory Card and one of the options was to format so I tried that. Now that card is a EXT2 with a Volume Label "DuneHDD". That did not add the thing to system storage. I checked under setup and then to information on the dune and the last line is "system storage: Not attached". I have not figured out how to add the SD card as system storage.

Am I getting closer?

Thanks for the help.

6. Accessing on the Dune:

You are going to want to add a Zappiti shortcut to your Dune Main Menu to easily access the Zappiti jukebox (to create a shortcut you must be using Dune firmware 100706_1032_beta). To do this you will need to have system storage set up on your Dune. The easiest way to do this is to attach a USB Thumb drive to your Dune (keep in mind the thumb drive must remain connected to the Dune, so make sure you use a thumb drive that you will not need elsewhere). Download the System Storage Utilities from here and copy over to a shared folder that you can access on the Dune. With the USB thumb drive connected to the Dune, navigate to the System Storage Utilities files via the Dune and execute the dune_service_init_system_storage.dsf file. Once done you should now have system storage set up.

To create the shortcut, navigate to the folder where you exported your Zappiti jukebox to from the Dune in the file browser, press MENU, choose Add to main screen in the popup menu. You should now have Zappiti as a shortcut on your Main Menu.

Originally Posted by flyr1

That did it. It works like a charm. I have to admit that I read CDLerners post within the last few days but it did not sink in. I was focusing on posts about My Movies not realizing that My Movies and Zappatti work the same way and require such similar setups. Did I mention I am not so tech savvy?

BTW, I really like the Dune with the WHS setup. I have high hopes for the My Movies interface. It already has a much higher WAF than my Popcorn Hour A-110.

Thanks for your help and all the guides you write over at MediaSmartServer. Without the info you and many others put out guys like me would never try.