Well, this was the last plugin I expected to spring to life since my last post, but VMCNetflix has a new beta 1.16 available for download.  From the site:

• Fixed issue displaying Instant Queue.
• Fixed issue w/ listing all search items.
• Updates to login page
• Made install check less restrictive, now requires Vista+ instead of requiring Vista-only

I just installed it and tried it out on my bedroom HTPC and noticed right away that the load time (start pulling available covers) was drastically improved for me.  It used to take at least 2 minutes before I could start browsing titles.  This version starting populating movies >30 seconds.

It does appear that this may be the final beta before a rewrite is necessary, however.  It appears the developer needs to rewrite according to Netflix licensing terms since they have finally provided an API.  I think this will be great in the long term though.

Also, from around the house, I setup my NETSVR with the Kiwi Syslog Daemon to grab syslog messages from my unRAID server.  I’ve been having a few issues as of late, but I can never see anything in the syslog since it is reset at every boot.  I believe the mis-matched memory I’m using is causing a reset when copying to certain drives.  I’ll probably just remove that extra 1GB I added since it started happening right around that time.

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