[FEAT]: Scan local devices.

[PhilGan47]

Description

How to scan local devices to index them?
You can only do this with SMB but it's slow.

Additional information

I don't see local devices in the folders.
No response

[courville]

Please describe more of your setup.
I assume you use an android tv box with a usb hdd.
Normally if you have local files, android does index them and nova picks up what Android sees.
If android is not indexing the files then perhaps you need to activate an android version to index external drives.

[PhilGan47]

Hi,
This is a multimedia player running Android 6.0 with integrated hard drives, Android sees HDDs well but Nova Video only finds them in SMB, not locally.

[courville]

Thus you need to find a setting in your android 6.0 device to have the hdd scanned by Android itself. Then nova will see the files if they are properly reported in the android media database.

If this is not possible then your device does not comply with Android standard behavior.

[PhilGan47]

Hi,
Another problem.
I connect a disk via USB (A), it is well recognized and analyzes the multimedia content well after a while.
I close Nova and put another USB disk (B) containing other files.
I run Nova which analyzes it well and references the files after a time.
I turn off my media player and disconnect the USB drive.
I run Nova without USB disk, it always displays the files previously found in the library but disappear since the source is no longer there.
If I put the disk back in USB (A) then launch Nova, it does not redisplay the content in the library but reindexes the multimedia files, why?
Where is library information stored?
Why does it redo a complete analysis of a disk that it has already indexed? and why doesn't it redisplay what it did previously?
The only thing that is preserved are the modifications made to the information of the files that it finds.
Cordialy.