Separate "Scan media library" cronjob for really large libaries?

[cd01 8]

Hi,

 

I am really bloating my Emby install cause i really love the software you have created, i have added my rather large library of pictures to try things out. The picture library is over 4 million items, needless to say everytime i scan it takes a long time to finish, however i have not noticed any other issues having this mega large library in the index which is great!

 

A feature i would love to see is something where i can specify a custom cronjob for scanning this library separate from the other ones and exclude this library from the regular scan. I still want to scan all the movies and series every 12 hours to keep the index rather up to date but i really do not want to scan 4 million pictures library every 12 hours as i believe it will wear down the hardware rather quickly (?)

 

Thanks for the great work you're doing, emby rocks!

[Luke 37060]

Hi, yes you could do this with the api if desired. Thanks.

[cd01 8]

Hi, yes you could do this with the api if desired. Thanks.

Could you elaborate how i would go about doing this? I cancel the built in scans and then call the api to trigger scans specifically for each share? Thanks!

[Luke 37060]

I would suggest exploring our api documentation:

 

https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby/wiki

 

Thanks.

[cd01 8]

got it working, thank you!