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Hi,

 

I'm trying to go away from Plex because it has a couple of annoyances. Hopefully Emby doesn't have these.

I have an Emby Premiere account so I can experiment with all the features.

I found a couple of things which hopefully can be fixed very easily.

 

Emby detects that there is a new movie on the NAS and downloads the poster.jpg, fanart.jpg and creates a nfo-file.

However after starting Kodi the plugin syncs the movies and it is visible in Kodi but without the poster.jpg. Kodi shows a thumbnail from the movie instead.

What I noticed in Kodi is that it searches for a file name similar to the movie name. For example when you have a movie named Movie.mkv it searches for Movie-poster.jpg/png and not for poster.jpg/png

The funny thing is that the fanart.jpg downloaded by Emby is showing in Kodi.

 

When I manually refresh the movie in Kodi it will download the poster and it will show correctly. But it is saved as Movie-poster.jpg and Movie-fanart.jpg

 

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Angelblue05

None of the Kodi addons require premiere.

 

They were made by Emby users, not the Emby team.

 

It sounds like you are not setup properly. Or at least, can you explain what you mean by refresh in Kodi? What option are you referring to? All artwork should be set in Emby, and that is what is ported to Kodi.

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it sounds like you are using Kodi and pointing Kodi to your stored media files directly using a local Kodi library.

I’m talking about the Emby for Kodi sync add-on.

Kodi is pointing to the NAS shared drives and using it’s own database.

 

Or at least, can you explain what you mean by refresh in Kodi? What option are you referring to?

When selecting a movie in Kodi (press i to open information window) you have the option to “refresh” the data. It will download the information and cover art again.

 

Syncing seems to work fine except the poster.jpg downloaded by Emby is not shown in Kodi, until you refresh that movie in Kodi. Kodi instead shows a thumbnail of the movie. The movie was synced to Kodi’s database. I did not run “update library” in Kodi.

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sualfred

Don't setup a local own database for Kodi. The addon takes care of everything and hijacks your local database. You cannot use the addon for syncing + use a own local DB. Restart from scratch, install the beta version of the addon from the beta repo and complete the initial setup + sync.

Or use EmbyCon. Whatever you prefer.

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I’m talking about the Emby for Kodi sync add-on.

Kodi is pointing to the NAS shared drives and using it’s own database.

 

When selecting a movie in Kodi (press i to open information window) you have the option to “refresh” the data. It will download the information and cover art again.

 

Syncing seems to work fine except the poster.jpg downloaded by Emby is not shown in Kodi, until you refresh that movie in Kodi. Kodi instead shows a thumbnail of the movie. The movie was synced to Kodi’s database. I did not run “update library” in Kodi.

 

As @@sualfred already said you're doing it wrong.

 

The general idea with Emby for KODI is to eliminate the middle man (kodi scrapping functions) and let the Emby Server do all the "heavy" lifting. Emby for KODI then converts your clients into "plug and play" machines.

 

Emby server even has "folder monitoring" which means that, in case you switch it on and have everything set up accordingly, all you (generally) need to do is drag and drop a media file into the HDD and its auto-scrapped.

 

Emby for KODI plugin builds (1st time) and then syncs all the server-specified libraries (and subsequent changes) to KODI and eliminates KODI database building/scrapping in the process.

 

Don't set libraries in KODI

Don't use Artwork Downloader / Beef addons. You can uninstall them.

 

Delete everything and start new:

 

- Setup Emby server on the NAS

- Setup UNC path substitutions in the library(ies) in case you need them (you should)

- Install Emby for KODI (or EmbyCon) on your client(s)

- Setup user credentials to be on-par with the ones on your NAS.

- Follow instructions

- Enjoy

 

 

PS: As said above, you obviously don't need première for any of this. But donations are always appreciated, believe me, the dev team is always on top of the hour regarding fórum assistance.

 

Cheers

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I know I don't need Premiere for this but I also want to be able to view and record IPTV. This needs some work because it's way to slow without channel filtering.

 

I followed the steps above. It took me a couple of hours to reinstall everything but now the syncing is working fine.

I was a little bit afraid to drop the Kodi database but Emby did an excellent job in scraping the movie info.

I couldn't have done it without the information on this forum because I couldn't find an installation manual.

I'm certainly not the only one who doesn't know where to start. https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/57863-which-plugin-should-i-use-embycon-or-emby-for-kodi/

Anyway, it works now.

 

Thanks for your help.

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