Home Entertainment Center

     For the last two years, I've been experimenting with connecting USB drives to my system, with, on at leats one occasion, disasterous results. However, I proceeded, learning from my mistakes, and succeeding to a greater or lesser degree. The current status:    USB drives can be connected to both the LG oled TV and the TP-Link router. There are issues and limitations, I have discovered.    For example, the router seems to have a limit of six USB drives on a hub attached to one of the USB ports. This is a total of twelve drives. I have only tested the combination of a WD 4TB drive on one and a Belkin 7-input powered hub, on the other.    The LG-TV has four USB ports and a limitation of  4TB  total. A powered hub can be used. In fact, I have an Amazon Basics 7-port powered hub connected to the TV now.  The port connects three drives to the TV.    Currently: TP-Link router : Belkin hub with 5 drives attached plus WD P...

    I have, for some years now, been downloading and curating videos, mostly movies, covering the last 120 years.    There is a lot of work in acquiring and managing the collection. Methods of acquistion that were valid ten years ago, do not work today. Continual adaptation to the current technology is needed.    But I digress. During work with my system, I discovered the router was building a hidden database of  the contents of drives connected to the router. The file format is SQLite.    The online movie database IMDB, allows users to download the dataset. I did, and used a Python script, I discovered online, to create an IMDB database file in SQLite format.    For years, I've been cataloging all my disks using a small but fast cataloger named Cathy. All my movie drives are included. I hope to connect the databases together. Cathy can export a text file of a drive's contents.    There are two Movie database catalogers I ...