I just received the movie server yesterday. I'm sad to say it needs a lot more work and a better UX experience. There is soooo much promise in this product. I did see a post from today that means there may be a light at the end of the tunnel (Version 2.0) but all I can do is wait and see...
Right now, here are my issues:
The forum itself is broken or underpowered. Way too many times I get "The server is too busy at the moment. Please try again later."
When first turning on the device, I went through setup and activated fine using the automated way. When done, it said there was an update so I chose that. Then it went through another whole setup process at the end and every time I tried to do the automated setup, it would crash, reboot and start all over again. Manual worked though. (I have done this about 6 times so far in 1 day, trying to start over)
After doing the setup, I decided to change the IP address to .156 instead of .155 and then I did a manual activation, I noticed that DVDFab 11 would display BOTH items in the drop down list. Neither one could be selected. Looking at the logs, I see this:
2018.12.27-18:01:07: Detected Movie Server 0: name=DVDFab Movie Server - Living Room, ip=192.168.1.155, uuid=5a-5e-59-97-2d-f5, path=
2018.12.27-18:01:07: Detected Movie Server 1: name=DVDFab Movie Server - Living Room(1), ip=192.168.1.156, uuid=f0-62-0d-10-26-db, path=smb://192.168.1.156/share/sda/sda1/DVDFab/smb://192.168.1.156/share/sata/sata1/DVDFab/
Notice that the .156 has the path TWICE - So I still can't access it.
Yes, I do have SMB 1 turned on in Windows 10 and I can access the server from my computer.
QUESTION: How do I remove any "remembered" entries in DVDFab 11 or at least fix the wrong path?
My second issue is with how to edit mismatched titles...
A lot of documentation says to go to the IP address of the server and access the web front end like this: http://192.168.1.156:32080/
However, looking at articles, it says this was removed so that you should now go to https://dms.dvdfab.cn/
At first, when I went to the IP address URL, I got a debug login and asking for a password... but later, I got the normal UI so that was confusing. Also, if I make updates there, it reflects on the device fine, however it's got a lot of limitations.
So then I went to the dms.dvdfab.cn URL and was presented with a more up to date UI, but ANY changes I make there do not get reflected back to the device.
QUESTION: What am I doing wrong?
I have even updated to the Beta hoping it would resolve some issues (1.0.3.7) but still no luck.
When it mis-identifies something, some parts of the UI let me change the media type, other editing screens don't. For example, I had a home movie called elephant.mov and it tried to match it to a TV show. When I tried to "fix" the mismatch, it wouldn't let me say it was a "video" and was hard coded as a TV show but it allowed me to search for the right show (which there are none because it wasn't a TV show)
Another issue was how it keeps mis-identifying episodes of Biography. I have the name as Biography-S1995E57-Marco Polo Journey to the East.mp4... It keeps trying to make it "The Condor Heroes 95 Season 0 Episode 0". The naming of the show is accurate and so is the season. The UI does not allow any numbers for season above 999.
Another issue is just playback. I tried to watch the pilot episode of Warehouse 13 (Blu-ray rip) but the sound is off where the lips are not in sync with the audio. Playing it back in other players works fine. (VLC, Plex, etc)
As I said, this product has great potential but right now it's all over the place with a lot of confusing UI, confusing ways of editing and I'm not exactly fond of going to dms.dvdfab.cn to get to my local machine and would rather have it back full time on my local network.
Right now, here are my issues:
The forum itself is broken or underpowered. Way too many times I get "The server is too busy at the moment. Please try again later."
When first turning on the device, I went through setup and activated fine using the automated way. When done, it said there was an update so I chose that. Then it went through another whole setup process at the end and every time I tried to do the automated setup, it would crash, reboot and start all over again. Manual worked though. (I have done this about 6 times so far in 1 day, trying to start over)
After doing the setup, I decided to change the IP address to .156 instead of .155 and then I did a manual activation, I noticed that DVDFab 11 would display BOTH items in the drop down list. Neither one could be selected. Looking at the logs, I see this:
2018.12.27-18:01:07: Detected Movie Server 0: name=DVDFab Movie Server - Living Room, ip=192.168.1.155, uuid=5a-5e-59-97-2d-f5, path=
2018.12.27-18:01:07: Detected Movie Server 1: name=DVDFab Movie Server - Living Room(1), ip=192.168.1.156, uuid=f0-62-0d-10-26-db, path=smb://192.168.1.156/share/sda/sda1/DVDFab/smb://192.168.1.156/share/sata/sata1/DVDFab/
Notice that the .156 has the path TWICE - So I still can't access it.
Yes, I do have SMB 1 turned on in Windows 10 and I can access the server from my computer.
QUESTION: How do I remove any "remembered" entries in DVDFab 11 or at least fix the wrong path?
My second issue is with how to edit mismatched titles...
A lot of documentation says to go to the IP address of the server and access the web front end like this: http://192.168.1.156:32080/
However, looking at articles, it says this was removed so that you should now go to https://dms.dvdfab.cn/
At first, when I went to the IP address URL, I got a debug login and asking for a password... but later, I got the normal UI so that was confusing. Also, if I make updates there, it reflects on the device fine, however it's got a lot of limitations.
So then I went to the dms.dvdfab.cn URL and was presented with a more up to date UI, but ANY changes I make there do not get reflected back to the device.
QUESTION: What am I doing wrong?
I have even updated to the Beta hoping it would resolve some issues (1.0.3.7) but still no luck.
When it mis-identifies something, some parts of the UI let me change the media type, other editing screens don't. For example, I had a home movie called elephant.mov and it tried to match it to a TV show. When I tried to "fix" the mismatch, it wouldn't let me say it was a "video" and was hard coded as a TV show but it allowed me to search for the right show (which there are none because it wasn't a TV show)
Another issue was how it keeps mis-identifying episodes of Biography. I have the name as Biography-S1995E57-Marco Polo Journey to the East.mp4... It keeps trying to make it "The Condor Heroes 95 Season 0 Episode 0". The naming of the show is accurate and so is the season. The UI does not allow any numbers for season above 999.
Another issue is just playback. I tried to watch the pilot episode of Warehouse 13 (Blu-ray rip) but the sound is off where the lips are not in sync with the audio. Playing it back in other players works fine. (VLC, Plex, etc)
As I said, this product has great potential but right now it's all over the place with a lot of confusing UI, confusing ways of editing and I'm not exactly fond of going to dms.dvdfab.cn to get to my local machine and would rather have it back full time on my local network.
. For the the problem with the paths, you can edit/remove/update them using the Manage Library tool, which you can access from the Poster Wall by pressing the 'Up' key on the remote (see captures below). For the 'DMS not found by DVDFab' issue, please follow the suggestions in this post: 
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