using an external HDD as source

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using an external HDD as source - Dignam - 2014-12-25

I feel like this should be really simple but not able to get it figured out at the moment.

I got an android box (Keedox® MXIII) for my parents to use. It just has an external drive that houses some media to it. When I go to add a source in XBMC on the box I cant seem to see the external drive. I can access the media on the drive through the keedox outside of xbmc, just not in it. What am I missing here?

RE: using an external HDD as source - IcI_K - 2015-06-01

Same problem here.

Amiko A3 running Jellybean 4.2.2. I can access the drive using any other file explorer, but I can't add the location as a source inside of Kodi 14.2 (ARM).

As others have stated, this seems to be an issue that many search for

Looking for a solution.

RE: using an external HDD as source - IcI_K - 2015-06-01

mhalfadl might have the answer for you in this post.

I did something similar:

System -> File Manager -> Add Source
Browse to Root File System -> /storage -> /external_storage -> /hdx

Now I have hdx listed in the sources and could easily select it to add videos / music.