Sharenite [BETA] - a way to look at your games when you are away from Playnite

[Xenor]

Hi!

Sharenite [BETA], a Playnite add-on that allows to synchronize your Playnite library with Sharenite website, has been released.

Currently, we're in deep BETA testing stage and everything might break (it won't modify your games in Playnite, we're only reading data). Since initial users didn't report many issues, we've decided to make an announcement here to pull in some more users for broader testing.

Sharenite is synchronizing only direct game data, we're still working on bringing on more stuff like tags, categories, completion statuses and maybe eventually images.

We know that Sharenite doesn't have many features currently, but there's a head full of ideas. If you want to chip in some ideas of your own, you can put them in this post, but I'd ask you to NOT put them on GitHub - it's too early for that. Instead, you can use GitHub to report any issues with the add-on or the website.

Setup instructions:

• go to the website and register for an account
  
  
• install the Playnite addon
  
  
• authenticate add-on with Sharenite and choose if you want to keep your library in sync automatically (if you choose it to keep your library in sync, it will try to update Sharenite every time something changes in your library, including all new games, updated game data and removed games)
  
  
• synchronize your library from the main menu
  
  
• if there's a need, you can also run a partial synchronization from right click menu
  

Games will be visible on Sharenite for you to browse:

• game list
  
  
• game details
  

Report any bugs on GitHub:

• website: https://github.com/sharenite/sharenite
  
  
• Playnite add-on: https://github.com/sharenite/playnite-sharenite
  

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KNOWN ISSUES:

• Fixed in version 0.5. Sharenite Playnite add-on is attached to every update event, and some library plugins update games even when there's no change, which might results in long library updates. Sharenite sync is triggered after each game updated multiplied by all games managed by given plugin. I will be trying to improve that on my side, in the meantime I'm also providing plugin add-ons with necessary information to improve their code if possible.
  

[cletausen]

Wow, that something I planned to do in the futur.
Thank you for this.

Do you plan to download data from the site too (maybe by a library/metadata plugin)? It will be like a sync feature.

[Xenor]

My first plans are to:
- make sure that everything is synchronized (tags, completion statuses, categories etc.)
- add minimum social functionality (share game list, share played recently)
- try to approach synchronizing images

Doing a metadata plugin based on the data would be a bit challenging, I didn't think about it at all. I think having some social/friends functionality synchronized back to Playnite would be more interesting.

[Osoa]

Made an account just because I want to say thanks for this, I've been waiting for this since I discovered Trakt and Kodi. I really hope this becomes popular and a must-have for Playnite and am wishing you luck.

[Xenor]

Thanks, great to hear it's useful.