Is anyone else having issues getting MrMC to see their Mac? I have my videos folder on my Macbook Pro set to share in my settings and I have file sharing turned on. Can't get it to see my Macbook or the folders being shared. Never had a problem getting Kodi to connect to my MacBooks files this way on other devices. I can't for the life of me work out why its not working, very frustrating!
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I seem to recall reading in another forum the version of SMB MrMC uses is incompatible with the version OS X uses....there's a utility called SMBup (Google it) that supposedly makes them compatible. I haven't tried it, so you're on your own.
Just one thing to note about SMBup. It replaces Apple's SMBX with Samba which gets MrMC working but breaks the Finder's ability to “browse” network services and servers from the network won’t show up in the Finder’s sidebar. So watch out if you regularly use those.
I had the same problem at home, no ability to find my network shares. I'm not going to play around with SMBup and break other functionality so simply had the MrMc app purchase refunded. Personally I found the complete navigation process so painful as well as entering network details with each try. I'm sticking with Plex for now as 'it just works'
SMB3 (El Capitan) works fine with Kodi on my FireTV units so I don't see why MrMC would have an issue. The only problem I get is that Kodi has trouble seeing my drives via ZeroConf sometimes, but manual entry always worked.
That may be something to try. Kodi/XBMC NEVER worked with my Mac via SMB/Workgroups selection when setting up a drive. I always had to use ZeroConf to get it to work (for either NFS or SMB) and that is the case with the current Kodi as well. The problem is sometimes I just get a busy pointer with ZeroConf (other times it shows up fine). But once configured, it works 100% here. With older Kodi (well then XBMC) I did have to use SMBup with Mavericks, but now it's just the opposite. SMBup does not work at all for me with the newer Kodi builds, but SMB3 (El Capitan) works fine. Given MrMC is built from Kodi, I would think it would follow suit unless Davilla changed something. Kodi running on my Mac itself never has trouble with ZeroConf, so maybe it's a Mac/router or Master Browser kind of issue?
If you do have to set them up manually, all you really need to know is your local IP address and share name. For example, if I have my Mac on 192.168.2 and I'm sharing an external media drive called MoviesX and the movies were in a directory called "Movies" and "Music was its own directory there as well) just inside the main drive and all I set up to share was the whole drive (MoviesX), you would access it like so (you might be able to substitute the local name for the IP address as well):
For directory called Movies:
smb://192.168.1.2:445/MoviesX/Movies/
For above directory called Music:
smb://192.168.1.2:445/MoviesX/Music
If you share "Movies" from the setup for SMB in OS X directly, I think you can just do:
smb://192.168.1.2:445/Movies/
Again, that's after you set up which drives and/or directories you want to share. It is a PITA to type them out with a remote, though (this is where the Kodi iOS "Remote" app comes in handy). Basically, if you just add the entire media drive or main directory above all your other media directories, you can just navigate to your files if you don't want to set a bunch up this way.
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I did the same, got a refund. I've always liked XBMC/Kodi on previous devices but after spending hours fiddling around just trying to get it to see my MacBook shares I realised that the whole idea of buying the Apple TV was to make things quick and easy. Plex does everything id want MrMC for anyway so I'm happy to just stick with Plex.
The SMB library that MrMC uses has a compatibility issue with SMBX, the mac's SMB library that provides it with the different versions of SMB. That's straight from the MrMC dev on their forums. Until they fix that they're saying to use SMBup to replace SMBX with Samba to get MrMC working. That will get it working but breaks the Finder's ability to browse network services and servers from the network won’t show up in the Finder’s sidebar. It also apparently breaks Kodi from what you said. So we're really in a pick your poison situation right now. Hopefully MrMC fixes the SMBX issue soon.
Well, unless MrMC changed something drastically from the latest Kodi, that wouldn't appear to be the case here. I'm using Apple's SMB, not SMBuP. In fact, SMBuP doesn't work with Kodi here anymore. I had to use Apple's SMB (which is SMB3 compatible). Like I said, it works 100% here with Kodi 15.2. SMBuP was needed here to get earlier versions of XBMC/Kodi to work (I actually switched to NFS due to some really weird "stutter" issues that would come and go using SMBuP, but I switched back to SMB with 15.2 Isengard and I've had no issues other than ZeroConf not showing the searchable directories sometimes (once configured, no issues at all).
Frankly, I'm amazed you got any answer at all. My questions that would take less than ten seconds to answer just go ignored day after day. For example, I still don't know if MrMC outputs 44.1kHz with the new AppleTV or not (I assume no since past iOS based Apple TVs could not) and I asked in the Kodi forums and the MrMC forums and the developer is in those threads and just ignores them. I know I'm not going to buy products when I can't get a simple answer. The attitude at the Infuse forums seems much better. At least they acknowledge there's a stutter issue and "We're on it!" rather than "We're waiting for you to fix it" type answer I've traditionally seen at the Kodi/XBMC forums. People who buy products expect them to work, so I can see why some have asked for refunds, especially when the attitude is apparently that the new remote sucks so I'll code for the old one instead. OTOH, Apple regularly just ignores customer feedback and bug reports too, so maybe there really isn't a big difference after all.
Out of curiosity I decided to try and connect to my SMB Share on my Mac Mini running El Capitan latest release (I normally use NAS without problems like this). I was not able to make a connection. I did not try the ZeroConf. Also, since I have been testing with NAStify, I tried that and also could not connect. However, I was able to connect with Infuse Pro and play my MPEG 2 Video without a problem. I really like Infuse (best UI) except for it is really slow when starting a Video and restart after FF (10 - 15 second delay). If it did not have this performance Problem I would like it much better then MrMC. I have reported the performance problem and passed on addition information they requested. Really hoping for a fix in Infuse 4.0.2. Other report a similar performance problem but for some not as bad. Maybe a good option for some here.
Why don't you try ZeroConf and see what happens? I've NEVER been able (on any version of XBMC/Kodi) to connect to Apple SMB via the SMB:// Workgroups option (that works for Windows machines). It has always shown up under ZeronConf, though. Only with newer Kodi verisons does it seem to sometimes not show the directories.
You can, however set up a manual replacement in the Network browser that will work every time (at least it does here). This avoids manually typing every directory location for movies, photos, music, etc. Instead, you will add a new SOURCE that is your media drive's starting point. I've tested this on two different Kodi machines and it works great.
From one of the music/movies type menus under files there will be an "add source" type option (might say add movies or add music or whatever). Pick that and then go to 'Browse' and when it shows the list of local and network sources like SMB:// and ZeroConf, etc. instead ADD Network Location (or something to that effect). It should bring up a requester defaulting to SMB. Let's say your computer is on 192.168.1.2 nad you have a Media drive connected called "MovieFun" in your OS X (SMB) "Sharing". That could be the main drive name or a folder within that drive (hopefully below which you have all your other media directories for music, movies, tv shows, photos, etc.).
Now Select SHARED FOLDER under that default SMB protocol (ignore "Name") and put:
/192.168.1.2:445/MovieFun/
in the box for it and then hit OK. It should now show up under the sources menu as smb://192.168.1.2:445/MovieFun
Now it will go right to that drive when you select it and you can select any folder in any sub-directory beneath it. When you add a location for movies, that location will be on the drop-down list from now on and you just select it and then find your movies directory within it, etc. This works without ZeroConf and without the SMB:// choice. You can set up the rest of the directories from there. If you have more than one drive, add it the same way to the sources list and you're good to go setting everything else up via SMB. Just change the above to whatever your computer's local IP address is and the name of the media share you're using instead of MovieFun.
So, after the above is done, I may need many more directory sources for Photos, music, movies, etc. From now on, all I need to do is just "add [source]" under any of the media type menus and then click on that entry I added to the source list [ smb:192.168.1.2:445/MovieFun ] and it will take me to the top directory of that drive. I can then click through the directory structure and select my MP3 directory or AAC one or whatever I want to add. Rinse and repeat for every media source you want to add.
This works here using Apple's own SMB (I disabled SMBuP). It's 100% reliable for me so far in El Capitan.
But are you using MrMC or Kodi?
MrMC is not compatible with SMBX (apple's implementation of SMB).
Reason is that Samba3 is GPLv3 so MrMC is using older version.
Davilla says he will include a new smb client in a future version (libdsm) that is compatible with SMBX but it is read-only.
Ah, maybe that's the issue then. SMBuP worked with older XBMC versions. The newest Kodi (15 and newer) doesn't even work with SMBuP here anymore, but does work with Apple's SMB).
The remote control aspect works, but although the app can see the files on my network, I can't actually initiate playback using it.
How do I get live channels like in this video
Just go into system/adding and enable or do I have to do something else ?
I might buy the app if I know how to do this
Just go into system/adding and enable or do I have to do something else ?
I might buy the app if I know how to do this
1.1.0 Just popped up in App Store as update. Only real difference I see is that it supports tapping for cursor control which should make everyone happier until 1.2 comes out. I don't see any talk or discussion of this version though on their forums.
I also notice MrMc is #3 Top Paid App and # 8 Top Grossing App in Canadian Store TvOS Store.
A bit off-topic but I'll mention here for those who don't know that MrMC Touch for IOS is released - go check it out.
I also notice MrMc is #3 Top Paid App and # 8 Top Grossing App in Canadian Store TvOS Store.
A bit off-topic but I'll mention here for those who don't know that MrMC Touch for IOS is released - go check it out.
Wow, that was late, v1.1.0 was approved Dec 21st.
Releases are tracked on forum when we get Apple approval -> http://mrmc.tv/forum/viewforum.php?f=5
There is also a fix/feature list for each release.
Releases are tracked on forum when we get Apple approval -> http://mrmc.tv/forum/viewforum.php?f=5
There is also a fix/feature list for each release.
