2015-12-18, 13:04
I just connected a Nvidia Shield TV to my SONY television.
I downloaded KODI to watch videos on my Synology DiskStation DS214.
I have a folder called "video" on diskstation that I can access from any PC on my LAN.
However I have problems to see it from Kodi.
Please, note that I am NOT interested to any media service that pretends to classify and group videos by genres or by using an external metadata base. I just want to browse folders and select the file to see because they are all my own videos that I grouped by folders according to my own criteria. So, forget any suggestion to use mediaservers like Synology Media Server or Plex, please.
Kodi allows to see servers on network in many different ways.
For example, by NFS, SAMBA (smb://), WebDEV, UnPn.
I tried all of them, with different results.
UnPn: this is the only one that really works, but if I add folders or files to DiskStation, there is no way to update the Kodi library. No refresh, no update. So, it is not really a file browsing. It upload the list of files once and never update changes.
Samba: it does not see the diskstation, even if the Windows (Samba) service is enabled.
WebDEV: it does not see the diskstation, even if the WebDEV service is enabled.
NFS: it accesses the diskstation but it does not see any change to file system. It looks like Kodi make a snapshot of the file system once that is never updated when files or folders are added.
Is there any way to see by Kodi the REAL files that you actually have on a diskstation?
I downloaded KODI to watch videos on my Synology DiskStation DS214.
I have a folder called "video" on diskstation that I can access from any PC on my LAN.
However I have problems to see it from Kodi.
Please, note that I am NOT interested to any media service that pretends to classify and group videos by genres or by using an external metadata base. I just want to browse folders and select the file to see because they are all my own videos that I grouped by folders according to my own criteria. So, forget any suggestion to use mediaservers like Synology Media Server or Plex, please.
Kodi allows to see servers on network in many different ways.
For example, by NFS, SAMBA (smb://), WebDEV, UnPn.
I tried all of them, with different results.
UnPn: this is the only one that really works, but if I add folders or files to DiskStation, there is no way to update the Kodi library. No refresh, no update. So, it is not really a file browsing. It upload the list of files once and never update changes.
Samba: it does not see the diskstation, even if the Windows (Samba) service is enabled.
WebDEV: it does not see the diskstation, even if the WebDEV service is enabled.
NFS: it accesses the diskstation but it does not see any change to file system. It looks like Kodi make a snapshot of the file system once that is never updated when files or folders are added.
Is there any way to see by Kodi the REAL files that you actually have on a diskstation?