[kwlug-disc] Kodi plans

[CrankyOldBugger]

I wanted to toss a question at the group's XBMC/Kodi experts (you know who
you are!)...

I currently have all of my movies and TV shows on a Synology NAS box.  I
installed Kodi on an Ubuntu desktop and I watch my stuff while I'm working
on a different desktop.  Life is good.

I want to bring the Kodi experience upstairs to both the family TV and also
my wife's TV in the bedroom.  So as I understand it, my best best would be
to either get one of those new set-top boxes such as a Roku or build a
RasPi box and drop it behind the TV.

To further complicate things, I have an old Acer H341 Windows Home Server
that I plan to install Ubuntu or some other distro on then use that as my
new DNLA media server (it's a headless server so maybe I will document the
procedure to share with the group).

So my question is...  is there a way to install a sort of Kodi server on
the new WHS/Ubuntu box so that individual users' preferences and "watched
lists" are centrally stored, then fed out to the various TVs and desktops?
In other words, if my daughter and I watch an episode of Dr. Who on the big
TV, then she goes to her room and fires up her laptop it will mark that
episode as watched for her?

Another issue is I have lots of "nerd" movies like hacker dramas, how-to's,
etc., that my wife and daughter really have no interest in, so these vids
don't need to show up in their listings.  (Conversely, I really don't want
to see my daughter's chick flicks in my movie listings...)

More importantly, I don't want copies of all my movies propagating to the
Roku or RasPi boxes in the house.  I want just one centralized storage area
that I can monitor.

I've given up on ever using an OTA antenna to get live TV as I've come to
believe that my neighbourhood is actually encased inside a very large,
invisible Faraday Cage, so I have to depend on stuff I download off of the
internet.
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