How to setup libraries & paths in UMC 2.0

[hxall]

After answering many posts associated with setup libraries and paths on UMC 2.0, I decided to put together a short how-to below:

Step 1: On the main UMC 2.0 window, select Config tab and then select Libraries

Step 2: If this is the first time you've run UMC 2.0, you should see the window below



Step 3: Click on "+" button to add a new library/share to scan, note that before doing this you need to have UPnP access to your PCH (careful with firewalls or wrong network setups) and you should be able to browse all your shares from your PC (where you have UMC installed), including being able to see your PCH hard drive from your PC (if you have movies in your PCH HDD)

Note: Two paths are required to properly setup the library, 1) the path from your PC to the share (this is where the scanner will look for the media) and 2) the path from your PCH to the shares (this is the link followed when you press play on your UMC frontend), *** these paths are different, and I will refer to them as Scan-Path and Play-Path from here on out...

Step 4: To add a library to your internal PCH HDD follow this step (to setup network shares skip to Step 5), click on "+" button and then in the pop-up window browse to your movie folder in your PCH (in the example below the PCH is mapped as drive N: on the PC and the movies are located in the Video folder), after you select Movies as the Scantype in the pulldown, you should see:


Now enter a Name for your library (required) and a description (optional). Your Scan-Path is shown as follows (again this is where UMC will scan for movies):



Note: It is not necessary to set the correct NMT path (Play-Path) for the selected library path. The UMC frontend will check on every start if there are any defined libraries without a corresponding NMT path. If so, the so called "UMC NMT Pathfinder" will try to find the correct NMT paths automatically. However, it seems that the pathfinder has some problems with certain situations to find the correct NMT path. You can still try to leave the NMT path empty, but if it fails, please add the correct NMT path, else you won't be able to start any movie in the frontend.

Okay, now we will setup the Play-Path, under PCH drive section, you should see two dropdown boxes right next to each other followed by an empty box as follows:


Leave the first dropdown with HDD, and in the second dropdown select SATA_DISK, and enter the root folder in your PCH where your movies are located (in this example we assume all the movies are in the PCH hard drive in a folder named Video), then click on the Ok button, and you should see that UMC populates the path right under the selection dropdowns with the Play-Path as shown below:


Save your settings (go to Project -> Save) and then scan your libraries, and you should now have all the movies on your PCH hdd scanned and the front-end ready to be used.

Note: If you have more than one internal HDD in your PCH and only one disk (i.e. SATA_DISK) shows on the dropdown then see Troubleshooting section below for work around...

Step 5: To add a network library/share, we again click on the "+" button and in the pop-up box browse to the desired location (in the example below we have a share called Study setup in the PCH which maps to a PC folder under C:\Movies, and the movies are all located in this folder, so Scan-Path is C:\Movies)

To setup the Scan-Path: choose Movies from the Select Scantype dropdown, and enter the Name of the library (required) and the Description (optional), the box Scan-Directory should show the correct Scan-Path as follows:


Note: Before proceeding note that all network libraries need to be setup on your PCH through the Network Shares configuration (this guide will not cover how to do that, but assumes that your shares are properly setup and mounted prior to configuring UMC or running the front-end).

Now let's proceed to setup the Play-Path, first select NET from the first dropdown box, on the next dropdown you should see the shares that are setup on your PCH, select the corresponding share (in this case Study is the share that corresponds to Scan-Path "C:\Movies"), and in the box enter the folder under the share (if you have one), see below:


Save your settings (go to Project -> Save) and then scan your libraries, and you should now have all the movies on your PC share scanned and the front-end ready to be used. You can apply these same steps to any network share from a NAS or other servers.

If the share name box is empty (the drop-down above showing "Study"), then just click on it and enter your share name manually.

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Troubleshooting & Workarounds:

1) I have more than one internal HDD in my PCH and I can not see the others in the lib configuration dropdown?

Find your config file in the UMC settings folder, the default is umc-config.xml, and manually add your paths to the missing drives using notepad or similar editor (do not use wordpad), for example...

Code:

<pch_dir>file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/SATA_DISK/foldername</pch_dir>
<pch_dir>file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/SATA_DISK_B-1/foldername</pch_dir>
<pch_dir>file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/USB_DRIVE_C-5/foldername</pch_dir>

Replace the drive name and folder name to suit.

2) I don't see my USB drive listed in the lib configuration dropdown, or only USB_A1 or USB_A2 show up?


If your USB drive is recognized by the PCH as anything other than USB_A1 or A2, then you will have to manually edit the umc-config.xml (or whatever name you saved your config to) as follows:

Go ahead and choose USB_A1 and complete the library configuration, then save your settings, but don't scan, shutdown UMC and edit the config xml file with notepad, do a replace of USB_A1 with whatever the right USB designation is (for example USB_DRIVE_B-1)

Below is what UMC generates, edit the umc-config.xml and put in the right Play-Path:

Code:

<library>
      <name>USB library</name>
      <description>Movies on external USB drive</description>
      <ignore>false</ignore>
      <mediainfo>true</mediainfo>
      <fanart>true</fanart>
      <movieinfo>true</movieinfo>
      <personinfo>true</personinfo>
      <id3>true</id3>
      <exif>true</exif>
      <movie_scan_dir>
        <pc_dir>\\Pch-c200\usb_drive_b-1</pc_dir>
        <pch_dir>file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/USB_A1/Video</pch_dir>
        <scan_type>0</scan_type>
        <subdirs>true</subdirs>
      </movie_scan_dir>
    </library>

(more to come for network & USB shares)

[Bry]

Hi thanks for this.


Details: POPCORN C200 (latest version of UMC)
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
Windows home server
all connected via ethernet cable to a 8 port switch

I have a windows home server called SERVER
with a share of Videos
this share has 6 sub folders however, I am only interested in 2 of these Films and TV so I plan on setting up 2 libraries.

The issue i have is with network shares.

My network share is on SERVER path Videos


so for the first library i type:
type scan directory: \\SERVER\Videos\Films

I go to PCH drive and chose NET from the drop down list. However, the second drop down list has nothing in it (?)

So what i have done is in the box next to it where you can type in I have typed
\Videos\Films

I have then created another library this type using scan directory as \SERVER\Videos\TV
again after choosing NET the second drop down list is blank and I have to manually type in the other box \Videos\TV

The share is correctly setup on the C200 as a samba share pointing to SERVER with a share folder of Videos.

I believe is mounted (i was just watching a tv episode from my SERVER via YAMJ on my popcorn C200

[Bazrah]

I should add that if the drop-down box doesn't list your source (like USB_DRIVE_C-1) then add a dummy path (choosing one of the available paths) then go to the settings folder and edit the umc-config.xml (or the file named the same your saved config) and manually edit the path like:

Code:

<pch_dir>file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/SATA_DISK/foldername</pch_dir>
<pch_dir>file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/SATA_DISK_B-1/foldername</pch_dir>
<pch_dir>file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/USB_DRIVE_C-5/foldername/</pch_dir>

replace the drive name and foldername to suit.

Baz.

[hxall]

(04-10-2010 09:10 PM)Bazrah Wrote:  I should add that if the drop-down box doesn't list your source (like USB_DRIVE_C-1) then add a dummy path (choosing one of the available paths) then go to the settings folder and edit the umc-config.xml (or the file named the same your saved config) and manually edit the path like:

Code:

<pch_dir>file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/SATA_DISK/foldername</pch_dir>
<pch_dir>file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/SATA_DISK_B-1/foldername</pch_dir>
<pch_dir>file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/USB_DRIVE_C-5/foldername/</pch_dir>

replace the drive name and foldername to suit.

Baz.

thanks Baz, I will add it to the guide in the first post...

[Bazrah]

(04-10-2010 09:13 PM)hxall Wrote:  thanks Baz, I will add it to the guide in the first post...

Glad to help!

Just take that last "/" off the path for USB C-5 - not sure how that got there!

[hxall]

(04-10-2010 08:57 PM)Bry Wrote:  Hi thanks for this.


Details: POPCORN C200 (latest version of UMC)
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
Windows home server
all connected via ethernet cable to a 8 port switch

I have a windows home server called SERVER
with a share of Videos
this share has 6 sub folders however, I am only interested in 2 of these Films and TV so I plan on setting up 2 libraries.

The issue i have is with network shares.

My network share is on SERVER path Videos


so for the first library i type:
type scan directory: \\SERVER\Videos\Films

I go to PCH drive and chose NET from the drop down list. However, the second drop down list has nothing in it (?)

So what i have done is in the box next to it where you can type in I have typed
\Videos\Films

I have then created another library this type using scan directory as \SERVER\Videos\TV
again after choosing NET the second drop down list is blank and I have to manually type in the other box \Videos\TV

The share is correctly setup on the C200 as a samba share pointing to SERVER with a share folder of Videos.

I believe is mounted (i was just watching a tv episode from my SERVER via YAMJ on my popcorn C200

I think there may be an issue with UMC running in W7 with UPnP discovery, not sure if it's a UMC bug or a W7 configuration issue. But you could try the workaround that Baz described for network shares as well.

So for example my umc-config.xml contains the following library entry for a network share on my PC (refer to step 5 in my guide above), the UMC GUI actually creates these xml entries, you should be able to manually include the mapping between Scan-Path and Play-Path

Code:

<libraries>
    <library>
      <name>PC library</name>
      <description>Movies in PC hdd (shared as Study)</description>
      <ignore>false</ignore>
      <mediainfo>true</mediainfo>
      <fanart>true</fanart>
      <movieinfo>true</movieinfo>
      <personinfo>true</personinfo>
      <id3>true</id3>
      <exif>true</exif>
      <movie_scan_dir>
        <pc_dir>C:\Movies</pc_dir>
        <pch_dir>file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/NETWORK_SHARE/Study</pch_dir>
        <scan_type>0</scan_type>
        <subdirs>true</subdirs>
      </movie_scan_dir>

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@Bry,

just curious, but if you go to your network do you see the UPnP being advertised by the PCH, see below my network listing (Vista 64):

[Bry]

(04-10-2010 09:34 PM)hxall Wrote:  @Bry,

just curious, but if you go to your network do you see the UPnP being advertised by the PCH, see below my network listing (Vista 64):

Hi,

i thought it was but it wasn't. I just went and checked and the service was stopped on C200 which i thought was odd.

I have re-enabled it and left it ten minutes and tried again in UMC (I can confirm I now see it in the network list). However, it has made no difference the drop down box is still blank

[Godzilla]

How about adding this great How-To in our wiki?

But please mention that it is not neccessary to define a "PCH drive", because we have this awsome feature called "pathfinder".

[joe citizen]

Ive tried for the last week to get UMC2.0 up and running but I keep getting an error of:

"http://localhost.drives:883/SATA_DISK_A1/UMC/CGI/interface cgi XML error!"

Ive got an A200 with hard drive installed. Followed the directions for use with internal HD. UMC2.0 scans my movies folder fine then places UMC on the A200 hard drive. I see all the UMC subfolders fine. I see umc.phf fine but when I double click it, I keep getting the same error. When I navigated to the CGI folder with the popcorn hour it tells me "no contents found" If I plug the A200 into my computer and go to the CGI folder I see the interface.cgi file as well as the start_apache.cgi file. I dont know if that means anything or not but those files dont appear navigating using the A200. Im guessing I must not be doing something right. Any suggestions?

[ga15859]

(04-13-2010 09:51 PM)joe citizen Wrote:  Ive tried for the last week to get UMC2.0 up and running but I keep getting an error of:

"http://localhost.drives:883/SATA_DISK_A1/UMC/CGI/interface cgi XML error!"

Ive got an A200 with hard drive installed. Followed the directions for use with internal HD. UMC2.0 scans my movies folder fine then places UMC on the A200 hard drive. I see all the UMC subfolders fine. I see umc.phf fine but when I double click it, I keep getting the same error. When I navigated to the CGI folder with the popcorn hour it tells me "no contents found" If I plug the A200 into my computer and go to the CGI folder I see the interface.cgi file as well as the start_apache.cgi file. I dont know if that means anything or not but those files dont appear navigating using the A200. Im guessing I must not be doing something right. Any suggestions?

Are you sure you have installed the NMT Apps to your local hard drive? Jump to Maintenance-->NMT Applications (or something like that) and see if there is an error above. Maybe you recently installed a firmware update and didn't update the NMT Apps?

[joe citizen]

(04-14-2010 12:59 AM)ga15859 Wrote:  Are you sure you have installed the NMT Apps to your local hard drive? Jump to Maintenance-->NMT Applications (or something like that) and see if there is an error above. Maybe you recently installed a firmware update and didn't update the NMT Apps?

I think thats probably the problem then. I didnt see anything in the wiki instructions or on here about needing to have NMT Apps installed. Ive got a 1.5TB hard drive formatted with NTFS and its half way full. I dont think I will be installing the apps because it wants to reformat my whole hard drive. Thanks for info.

[bloodflower]

my problem
when i start the scan, it pauses, and i find the umc.log like this, there is only "Download" directory
there is no "Download\Download\...." directory, but it seems the umc pause here, and it keep doing for ever and the "Download\Download\......" become longer and longer, and it never stops.

i don't know why, YAMJ has the same problem, could some help me, thanks very much.


Z:\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Downl​oad\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Down​load\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Dow​nload\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Do​wnload\Download\Download\Download\Download\movie\07.12.25.Annie.Hall.HDTV.720RE.​X264.DD20.F@Silu for trailers ([Trailer],[Trailer1-n])
14.04.2010 19:45:45 57923 [Thread-32] DEBUG com.umc.file - com.umc.filescanner.Filescanner.searchTrailerFiles - Scanning directory Z:\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Downl​oad\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Down​load\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Dow​nload\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Do​wnload\Download\Download\Download\Download\movie\09.02.19.Zatoichi.2003.BDRE.720​P.x264.AC3-MYSiLU for trailers ([Trailer],[Trailer1-n])
14.04.2010 19:45:45 57986 [Thread-32] DEBUG com.umc.file - com.umc.filescanner.Filescanner.searchTrailerFiles - Scanning directory Z:\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Downl​oad\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Down​load\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Dow​nload\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Do​wnload\Download\Download\Download\Download\movie\Le.Genou.de.ClaireLe.1970.DVDri​p.XviD.AC3.iNT-Alaundo for trailers ([Trailer],[Trailer1-n])
14.04.2010 19:45:45 58079 [Thread-32] DEBUG com.umc.file - com.umc.filescanner.Filescanner.searchTrailerFiles - Scanning directory Z:\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Downl​oad\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Down​load\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Dow​nload\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Do​wnload\Download\Download\Download\Download\movie\2008.07.01.Persepolis.2007.BDRE​.720p.x264.AC3-younghuie@SiLUHD for trailers ([Trailer],[Trailer1-n])
14.04.2010 19:45:45 58157 [Thread-32] DEBUG com.umc.file - com.umc.filescanner.Filescanner.searchTrailerFiles - Scanning directory Z:\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Downl​oad\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Down​load\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Dow​nload\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Do​wnload\Download\Download\Download\Download\movie\2009.10.26.Star.Trek.2009.BDRE.​720p.x264.AC3-MySiLU for trailers ([Trailer],[Trailer1-n])
14.04.2010 19:45:45 58220 [Thread-32] DEBUG com.umc.file - com.umc.filescanner.Filescanner.searchTrailerFiles - Scanning directory Z:\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Downl​oad\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Down​load\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Dow​nload\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Download\Do​wnload\Download\Download\Download\Download\movie\2012.2009.720p.BluRay.x264.DTS-WiKi for trailers ([Trailer],[Trailer1-n])
14.04.2010 19:45:45 58298 [Thread-32] DEBUG com.umc.file - com.umc.filescanner.Filescanner.searchTrailerFiles - Scanning directory

[hxall]

(04-12-2010 09:23 PM)Godzilla Wrote:  How about adding this great How-To in our wiki?

But please mention that it is not neccessary to define a "PCH drive", because we have this awsome feature called "pathfinder".

No problem adding it to the wiki as soon as I'm back in town.

Agree that pathfinder should be the first course of action, and also the wizzard. This guide was more intended to help when either of those options didn't work, I'll revise the initial post to be more specific and include your comments on pathfinder.

[Scorpys]

if you have application on usb stick and internal HD
dont choose SATA_DISK,the name of your harddisk is SATA_DISK_A1
and for path finder ,dont work for me,and UMC cant find any path on my windows 7 (same problem as BRY)

[stephenp1983]

(06-13-2010 05:58 PM)Scorpys Wrote:  if you have application on usb stick and internal HD
dont choose SATA_DISK,the name of your harddisk is SATA_DISK_A1
and for path finder ,dont work for me,and UMC cant find any path on my windows 7 (same problem as BRY)

I have a quick question about the config.xml. My movies are located on an external HD connected to my pch c200. If I browse to the pch in windows the path is \\192.168.1.101\usb_drive_b-1.1.41.3-0942\usbshare So should the path in the xml file be -

<pch_dir>file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/usb_drive_b-1/usbshare</pch_dir>

or

<pch_dir>file:///opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/usb_drive_b-1.1.41.3-0942/usbshare</pch_dir>