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+---- Thread: Can only use 1 AFTV at a time (/showthread.php?tid=342312)
Can only use 1 AFTV at a time - JonBest - 2019-03-22
If you try to use this add-on to stream from the VBox on multiple Amazon Fire TVs at once you can only get a stable stream on one of the boxes.
If you try to play a stream on another AFT (at the same time) it stutters heavily and is unwatchable. This is if you try to watch the same channel or try to stream a second channel.
This only seems to happen when using this Kodi add-on on 2 Firetvs, for example I can use it on a Firetv and play a stream through Kodi on my phone simultaneously without any issues.
To compare I can use the official VBox app on both firetvs simultaneously with no problem, so it is quite a specific problem & hopefully easy to replicate.
This has been the case ever since I bought the VBox (about 18 months). This happens whether you are on WiFi or Ethernet.
RE: Can only use 1 AFTV at a time - sonofdibnah - 2020-10-06
Did anyone get to the bottom of this? I'm having the same issues when trying to use any 2 devices to view channels.
EDIT. I seem to have solved this by giving every Kodi instance a unique name in System -Settings-Services-Device name (the default is Kodi) and then rebooting the vbox. I've had up to 3 channels playing since then, accessed thro the add-on and connected to the vbox by upnp.
RE: Can only use 1 AFTV at a time - sonofdibnah - 2021-01-22
Posting this for anyone else suffering this problem. What caused it for me was that I had set up a folder on a networked drive for TV timeshifting. Both Kodi clients pointed to this folder. When 2 clients both tried to run their streams thro that single folder at the same time, I got exactly the problem described earlier. Turned of timeshifting in one of the add-ons and both clients would play.
Obvious really, but look how long it took me to work out.