Lock-Robster 0 Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 Hi all, I've just bought a Minix U9-H and found Emby sync to be extremely slow in comparison to my other devices. I have been using an Intel NUC (Skull Canyon), I know it would be faster than the Minix, but I didn't realise how much faster. Adding/Repairing/Updating a library takes 10x as long on the Minix than the NUC. I have an Emby library with only a few TV Shows in it, the Minix takes 1 minute and 8 seconds to complete the library update. The NUC completes it in 6 seconds! I've adjusted the 'Paging' settings in Emby Add-on, didn't seem to make a difference. I'm running CoreELEC on the Minix and LibreELEC on the NUC. They are both running the latest nightly of each OS. Emby server is on the latest beta - 3.6.0.84 Emby Kodi Add-on is latest beta - 3.1.36a Emby Companion Plugin is lasted release - 2.0.9.0 My full library would take many many hours to add. The NUC adds all library (movies and tv shows) in about 15-20 minutes. Both devices are connected via gigabit ethernet. As a test, I used the Kodi Backup add-on to backup to a network drive, then restore that backup on the Minix. It successfully restored all user accounts (4) in about 10 minutes. So it appears it's just the Emby Sync that is slow, not network/write speed. I also have 2 chrome boxes running LibreELEC betas and they sync at nearly the same speed as the NUC. The logs in Emby seem to show the exact same output as the faster devices, it just does everything a bit slower. When I first setup the Minix, I had CoreELEC running on an SD card and I presumed that was why it was slow, so I installed CoreELEC to internal eMMC... same result Please let me know if there is anything that can be done. If anyone else has a Minix U9-H or other amlogic device, do you also have this issue? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lock-Robster 0 Posted January 9, 2019 Author Share Posted January 9, 2019 To check if it was just the Emby Sync that was slow. On the Minix, I made a new Kodi profile and added that same library that took 6 seconds on the NUC and 1 min and 8 seconds on the Minix. I added the library directly in Kodi and not through the Emby Sync add-on. It added all shows and episodes (208 episodes) in 15 seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 4130 Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 Disable force cache artwork, see if it makes a difference in your testing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lock-Robster 0 Posted January 9, 2019 Author Share Posted January 9, 2019 I just setup a new profile, configured Emby Sync, turned off artwork cache, added the library that took 1 minute and it took 13 seconds this time! I've just added my main TV Shows library, which was taking many hours before. Hopefully it completes in a reasonable time. Any particular reason why my less powerful chrome boxes can sync with artwork cache turned on, but the Minix can't? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37051 Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 The network connection and/or the performance of the storage of these devices could be responsible for the variation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 4130 Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 What I recommend is to setup Kodi on a faster device with a stable connection. Then you can create a backup and restore it on the slower device: https://github.com/MediaBrowser/plugin.video.emby/wiki/Create-and-restore-from-backup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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