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krkeegan

I added a new feature to my branch today. I figure those who are working with kidzone may also find it beneficial.

Adapted from ticket #32:

There is now a share option available under any [_tivo_...] section. This option takes a comma separated list of available shares. Only the shares listed will appear on that specific tivo. Incorrect shares are ignored.

For example, the following conf file would be used to prevent share Adult from being seen on the TiVo with a tsn=12345, only Movies and Photos would be seen on this TiVo. Adult would still be visible on ALL other TiVos in the network.

[_tivo_12345]
shares = Movies, Photos

[Adult]
type = video
path = /store/Adult

[Movies]
type = video
path = /store/Movies

[Photos]
type = photo
path = /store/Photos

[Server]
debug = true
ffmpeg = /usr/bin/ffmpeg
hack83 = true
port = 9032

rjmitche · Joined: 05 Jan 2008 Posts: 41

Excellent. Thanks.

I've been thinking about asking about this exact feature. No need for all of the shares to appear on the TiVo dedicated to the kids.

I've been sort of following wmcbrine's fork (for the subfolders stuff)... any chance of this feature being merged with the latest over there?

reneg · Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 133

Thanks for folding this feature into a current release. I don't know if and when I would have gotten around to it. Just a note, YMMV if you are using the auto_subshares option and this option.

wmcbrine · Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 1333

krkeegan · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 11:46 pm Post subject:

tlc · Joined: 06 Jan 2008 Posts: 18

This feature appears to force shares to have different names. I can't remember if that's true without this feature.

I know I tried once to have a video share [ServerName] and a photo share [ServerName] which would have looked fine on my TiVos since they're seen in specific menu screens. I don't remember if it worked though.

tlc

krkeegan · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:49 pm Post subject:

philhu · Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 279

No, that did not work.

I had a music and video share that even started with the same names,like:

MySvr
MySvr-Music

It got mad!

wmcbrine · Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 1333

rjmitche · Joined: 05 Jan 2008 Posts: 41

Is there a way to use this to prevent ANY shares from showing up on a given TiVo? I've got pyTivo running on two pcs, I've also got two TiVos on two separate TVs. On the main TiVo/TV, I want all the shares from both instances of pyTivo to appear but, on the kids' TiVo/TV, I'd like them to only see one share from one of the instances of pyTivo. In order to accomplish this, I'd like to be able to specify something like shares = NONE under that [_tivo_tsn] section. I tried setting shares= to something that doesn't exist but, that didn't seem to work.

krkeegan · Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:03 pm Post subject:

Yeah I designed it to actually prevent all shares disappearing simply because there was a bad share name. You can add a blank share or just the admin share and it would do what you wanted.

For example:

rjmitche · Joined: 05 Jan 2008 Posts: 41

shares = Admin did the trick. Thanks!

ebf · Joined: 22 Mar 2008 Posts: 133

krkeegan · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:43 am Post subject:

you can also do it through beacon I imagine too.

ebf · Joined: 22 Mar 2008 Posts: 133