User Profiles, shared state, parental control

[Magilla 8]

Hello,

I'a long time MB2 user and I'm now planning to move to MB3, building a new machine for the purpose. What is blocking me to finally make the switch, is that I did not find yet a way to setup my library the way I used to have in MB2.

I loved the easy way MB2 allowed to protect rated videos from general viewing, and I'm still scratching my head trying to setup MB3 to allow rated and adult videos to be completely hidden from the general (default) user while keeping everything else shared, between profiles.

 

I've set up only the default library, and I've created two user profiles: A default profile which my MBC will automatically sign in with no password, which is limited to show only max TV-14 videos and a personal profile for myself, with no parental limitation.

My idea was to use switch to the personal user any time I want to watch a rated movie, and to keep the default profile for most of the time.

 

What I've found is that the play state is "sticky" with the user profile you are in. So in my case, if I watch a PG movie with my family using the default profile, it doesn't appear as "played" in my personal profile. Keeping all movies and TV Series Episodes play state in sync between the default profile and my personal profile is cumbersome and messy.

 

Am I doing something wrong or the above has to be considered a limitation imposed by the new "user profile" concept implemented in MB3 vs MB2?

 

Any suggestion would be welcome !

 

Thanks

Magilla

 

[ebr 16169]

You aren't doing anything "wrong" except that you (as a person) exist within two profiles.  We're working on ways to make that better.  For now, you could install the Trakt plug-in on the server and configure it to update for both profiles and this would keep them in sync.

[Magilla 8]

Thank you for the answer. Hopefully my scenario would be quite common and would justify soon the implementaiton of a more suitable approach.

Magilla